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Ryan Edwards is worked up for the chance to forge a brand new relationship together with his son.
The Teen Mother: Subsequent Chapter star, 36, exhibits son Bentley, 16, whom he shares with ex Maci Bookout McKinney, round his new house on the Thursday, April 17 episode of the fact sequence.
The house is an enormous transfer for Edwards and fiancée Amanda Conner, who had been excited to deal with their blended household to a brand new begin. Throughout that point, Conner regained custody of her 11-year-old son, Brandon, who would additionally be a part of the couple and their daughter, Presley, within the new household house.
In the course of the tour, Brandon and Bentley may be seen speaking about the place to place issues within the basement. The teenager asks Brandon, “What do you concentrate on your mother having a child?”
“I am actually joyful as a result of I will have her. I will reside with my mother,” he stated.
“I by no means actually stayed with my dad both, until it is at Mimi and Papa’s home,” Bentley instructed him.
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“I am actually trying ahead to having an enormous brother round,” Brandon provides with an enormous smile, making the teenager blush a bit.
Later, Bentley and Ryan step outdoors for a chat of their very own. Ryan tells Bentley, “I am excited for you. I am excited for Brandon and Stella and Jagger,” he says, referring to his different two kids with ex MacKenzie Standifer.
After joking with Bentley about not sneaking out of the home, Ryan says, “After I was your age, I used to be most undoubtedly working round. However you are a good child, I haven’t got to fret about you.”
Ryan then begins to mirror on the truth that Maci was simply 16 after they had Bentley. “For the longest, I’ve not been in place. And there, for some time, your mama did not need us collectively alone in any respect. I do not blame her. Yeah, it made me mad, however I do not blame her now.”
He continued, “And now, your mother and I get alongside nice. Taylor and I get alongside. We performed golf and I loved it. I want we’d have accomplished it quite a bit sooner, however like I instructed Taylor once we was {golfing}, I would not have needed to cope with me then both, so I do not blame him. And your mama was simply defending you, and I do not blame her both.”
“Sixteen years later, right here we’re. I am sorry it took us so lengthy, but it surely’s higher now than ever,” Ryan says. “I might like to spend extra time with you at any time when. And you’ll come over right here as a result of I do know we ain’t been in a position to, however I’d take pleasure in that.”
“I’ve by no means actually gotten to spend an evening at a home you have been in,” Bentley says.
“I do know, And should you’re ever uncomfortable with something, should you do not even need to inform me, simply inform Mother and he or she’ll inform me. However simply tell us.”
Bentley agrees to try this. Ryan concludes, “I take into consideration this quite a bit. There have been occasions, you recognize, that I wasn’t there for you. However I hope, by displaying you that it is a bit totally different… I like you, although.”
“I like you, too,” Bentley says as the 2 hug.
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Forward of the massive second, Amanda opened as much as Maci about what this transfer means to her and Ryan, who’ve every struggled of their relationship with their kids because of their respective struggles with habit.
“I am excited. It will be new, it should be traumatic, however we’re all simply studying to do that collectively. So it is actually necessary for me and Ryan to bond with the youngsters and have them come over,” she says, asking Maci if she’d be comfy with Bentley staying there in a single day.
“I am okay with Bentley staying the night time. This may actually, it is going to be the primary time the place he goes to the place Ryan resides and be joyful about it,” she says.
“That makes me joyful, however I hate that it was like that,” Amanda says.
Teen Mother: The Subsequent Chapter airs on Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET on MTV.

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