Teen Mom 's Maci Bookout and Taylor McKinney Reveal the Biggest Struggle in Their 7-Year Marriage

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Teen Mom 's Maci Bookout and Taylor McKinney Reveal the Biggest Struggle in Their 7-Year Marriage

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Teen Mother's Maci Bookout and Taylor McKinney Trace the Very finest Combat in Their 7-Yr Marriage

A decade into their romance, Teen Mother's Maci Bookout instructed E! Records she accumulated thinks husband Taylor McKinney is “chilly as s–t.” But the busy other folks admit they accumulated grapple with one predominant field.

Flying off to Colombia to movie the third season of MTV's Teen Mother: Family Reunion, Maci Bookout and husband Taylor McKinney had visions of Aguardiente cocktails dancing in their heads.

“Truth be instructed, walking into it, I was treasure, Oh, worthy, we get to be some distance off from the formative years, be with each other and grasp out with our associates,” Maci admitted to E! Records in an uncommon interview. “Like, it's a vacation. I'm now not obvious we were searching at for all of the work we were going to maintain to enact when we bought there.”

Because whereas their time in South The US did encompass just a few tipples and time spent with castmates Catelynn Lowell and Tyler Baltierra, Jade Cline and husband Sean Austin plus Cheyenne Floyd and her husband Zach Davis, it also got right here with a wholesome serving of homework.

And 12 years after the Texas motocross racer, 34, connected with the solid AF single mom from Tennessee (the 32-one year-vulnerable shares 15-one year-vulnerable son Bentley along with her excessive college ex Ryan Edwards), they're accumulated searching to ace the identical tricky field.

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“I believe the predominant declare used to be verbal substitute, for obvious,” admitted Maci of their top fight. “And in point of fact, it accumulated is. I in actuality feel treasure we're accumulated engaged on what a wholesome verbal substitute routine seems treasure. And who's to claim we ever solve it? Because we're each hustlers, we're streak-getters, we're stubborn, we're competitive, we're solid-minded. So as that is prone to be something that is staunch there forever. But I believe as long as we're consistently searching to figure out the completely methodology to enact it, that's a fetch.”

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Bigger than seven years into their marriage, the pair maintain drawn up the coolest performs to navigate parenting Bentley, plus their daughter Jayde, 8, and son Maverick, 7.

“We work in actuality successfully collectively as a team particularly with three assorted formative years going in three assorted directions the total time,” explained Taylor. “We staunch produce it work. And then we get a slight bit little bit of by myself time when they streak to bed where we get to sit down down down on the couch and put apart a query to TV.”

But by methodology of discussing the relaxation deeper than their most up-to-date binge-put apart a query to, they're accumulated a slight of a piece in growth.

“You alternate plenty as you develop up,” licensed Maci. “So staunch attributable to we figured something out this one year doesn't mean in four years as we're evolving that we're now not going to hit that again. So as long as we're staunch doing something each day and engaged on the identical team, now not against each other, I believe we'll be staunch stunning.”

One sound method they've developed is celebrating every play, now not staunch the miniature victories.

With three college-old formative years at dwelling, “We're staunch doing the completely that we can,” explained Maci. “And I believe we each realize that a variety of each of us has to streak toward extra of the household than each other. But I've also realized that you just've bought to take profit of the miniature wins. And the miniature dwelling windows, too.”

Which methodology that an evening on the couch can in actuality feel staunch as romantic as a devour AF dinner.

Even taking 10 minutes to reconnect “you ought to aquire the identical declare that that you just can in a date evening,” insisted Maci. “So it's miniature wins, miniature dwelling windows streak a truly, very long methodology.”

And in spite of what happens, they frequently take note that they half a dugout, to be succesful of talk about.

“Now we maintain this declare we issue, it's treasure, we root for the house team,” said Maci. “So even every so continually when we enact in actuality feel treasure we're opponents, it's no, we root for the house team.”

And whenever they in actuality feel the total carpooling, homework-overseeing and the hundreds of thousands of alternative issues it takes to successfully wander a household has them hitting a boiling level, agreed Taylor, “I believe we enact an nice looking job of taking a step lend a hand and being treasure, 'Hi there, we're on the identical team.'”

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But, also, date nights are stunning clutch.

Filming in Colombia, as an illustration, “in actuality helped us reset,” said Taylor. “That gave us the time to reconnect.”

And likewise to take be conscious of that their 2016 rustic Florida vows came about for a reason.

“I was treasure, 'Man, we haven't frolicked staunch the 2 of us collectively in a truly long time, are we accumulated going to treasure each other when there's no distraction? When there's no position to be or declare to enact?'” admitted Maci of getting plenty unfettered by myself time. “And I in actuality feel treasure that used to be the reset button attributable to I was treasure, 'Hell yeah, I'd grasp out with this guy each day, he's worthy!' So for me, it used to be treasure, we're positively accumulated there. I fancy him, now not staunch as a dad or staunch as a husband, I staunch treasure hanging out with him.”

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She considers it a memento from the skills.

“After I got right here dwelling, I'm treasure, 'He's chilly as s–t. I'd grasp out with him the total time, formative years or no formative years,'” shared Maci. “I felt treasure that's what I gained from it, although that I didn't necessarily know that's what I was taking a uncover for.”

And she or he's now not the completely Teen Mother solid member to maintain chanced on what she didn't know she used to be seeking. Strive the comfort of the MTV stars who maintain settled down with their supreme person.

Catelynn Lowell & Tyler Baltierra

Viewers watched Catelynn Lowell and now-husband Tyler Baltierra produce the annoying preference to position their first daughter, Carly, for adoption, in 2009 on the inaugural season of 16 and Pregnant. After 13 years collectively, the fan-licensed couple wed in August 2015 and maintain since had three extra daughters: Novalee, Vaeda and Rya.

While the absence of Carly—who lives along with her adoptive other folks, Brandon and Teresa Davis—accumulated aches 14 years later, the couple are dwelling for their meetups. “The ladies fancy her,” Catelynn instructed E! Records of her youthful daughters' response to Carly. “It's stunning awesome in an effort to glimpse it. And we're blessed that we enact maintain an launch adoption in an effort to glimpse it. It's in point of fact a blessing in an effort to put apart a query to all of these issues over time.”

Maci Bookout & Ryan Edwards

Collectively now not as a lot as six months when she bought pregnant, viewers noticed Maci Bookout fight with an irresponsible Ryan Edwards on 16 and Pregnant. Though they bought engaged, the excessive college sweethearts split now not as a lot as a one year after their son Bentley used to be born in 2008.

For the time being they're appealing on constructing a coparenting relationship. “We're in an nice looking position,” Maci published to E! Records in 2023, adding that Ryan is showing up “extra consistently now than maybe he ever has sooner than.”

Maci Bookout & Taylor McKinney

Maci chanced on her forever teammate in Texan Taylor McKinney in 2012, the pair soon develop their squad. They welcomed daughter Jayde in Could well furthermore 2015 and son Maverick a one year later, then wed in Florida that October.

Partners in parenting, life and their TTM Standard of living vogue ticket, “He's staunch my person,” she instructed E! Records in 2023. “Even when we've had a tough one year collectively, I believe at the halt of the day, I accumulated resolve him. I treasure him. And although I want to punch him within the face every so continually, I'd relatively argue with him or maintain a tough patch with him than never maintain a tough patch with anybody else.”

Cheyenne Floyd & Cory Wharton

Despite shifting on with fresh valuable others, the MTV stars, who connected whereas filming The Project, continue to coparent their daughter Ryder collectively.

“Our supreme declare since day one amongst Cory coming into Ryder's life used to be what extra or less dad he wished to be and what extra or less father or mother he wished to be,” Cheyenne explained to E! Records in March 2020. “I wasn't going to enable him to be a Disneyland dad or an Instagram dad or staunch within the moment. He needed to be 100%. I believe from the muse, he noticed my mindset and appreciated it so that's why we coparent so successfully.”

Cheyenne Floyd & Zach Davis

After their romance resulted in 2018, the pair made up our minds to offer their relationship a 2d likelihood. While celebrating her Twenty eighth birthday, Cheyenne confirmed on Instagram that she used to be lend a hand with Zach. In Could well furthermore 2021, the couple welcomed their first child collectively, son Ace, and bought married in September 2022.

“They’re very in tune in this form of natural methodology,” Maci Bookout instructed E! Records. “They staunch streak collectively so smoothly and in my method, they're awesome to be spherical nonetheless collectively, they are a blast. And they are regularly down for the relaxation.”

Cory Wharton & Taylor Selfridge

Connecting whereas filming Ex on the Seashore can also just now not sound treasure the initiating up of a elaborate tale, nonetheless extra than six years and two formative years—daughters Mila and Maya—later, Cory and Are You the One? alum Taylor Selfridge are accumulated making waves.

“We staunch sold a dwelling,” he shared with E! Records in 2023, sooner than citing that, sure, he's conscious that folks want to know when they're getting married. “It's positively being talked about. Now we maintain everything nonetheless the ring and me staunch letting her know. Taylor deserves that and it's something that I need and she or he wants. Ravishing now we're staunch taking steps to get there.”

Ryan Edwards & Mackenzie Standifer

Trying out the limits of for-higher-or-for-worse, Ryan checked into rehab now not long after he married female friend Mackenzie Standifer in Could well furthermore 2017, along with her giving birth to their first son Jagger in 2018 whereas Ryan used to be accumulated in remedy.

Though the pair would welcome daughter Stella in January 2020, Mackenzie filed for divorce three years later.

Amber Portwood & Gary Shirley

While their very contentious romance got right here to an halt for horny in 2013, the couple maintain since worked out a methodology to successfully coparent their now-teenage daughter Leah.

“Now we celebrate collectively nonetheless at a distance,” Amber instructed E! Records in January 2022. “But our relationship is horny. It's a household now so we treat it as a household extra than the relaxation else.”

Amber Portwood & Matt Baier

After several years collectively, a proposal and one unsuccessful stint on Marriage Boot Camp, Amber and Boston transplant Matt Baier called off their engagement in 2017.

“Honestly, you staunch get to a degree even as you happen to're done listening to issues and likewise you staunch initiating as a lot as now not care in a relationship and I believe that's what started going on to me and him,” Amber published on Dr. Drew Pinsky's podcast later that one year. “I started now not to care anymore about the connection corresponding to you ought to. I put apart a wall up so I wouldn't get injure again stunning a lot.”

Amber Portwood & Andrew Glennon

Amber did catch fancy whereas filming Marriage Boot Camp—connecting with crew member Andrew Glennon whereas on space. The pair made their debut as a couple at the 2017 MTV Movie Awards and in Could well furthermore 2018, Amber gave birth to the couple's first child, James.

But the couple separated now not long after Amber used to be arrested for home battery in July 2019. After a contentious court fight, California native Andrew used to be awarded sole upright and main bodily custody of their son in 2022.

“I've worked so annoying to higher myself and enhance my relationships with my formative years,” the Teen Mother massive title instructed E! Records at the time. “While I've regularly been candid about my past substance abuse and struggles with psychological illness, an person have to maintain the likelihood to redeem themselves and never be tethered to their complications from the past.”

Distinct now not to offer up, she added, “If your avenue has now not been supreme, nonetheless you've worked annoying to become an even bigger, extra stable and caring person at the present time, withhold shifting forward as I will. I'll never cease combating for my formative years who I treasure extra than the relaxation.”

Amber Portwood & Dimitri Garcia

After meeting Amber on the Web, Dimitri Garcia made his Teen Mother OG debut in April 2020. “Dimitri is from Belgium. He's 39 so he's 10 years older than me. But he's a truly fine man,” Amber shared on the masks. “I started opening as a lot as him and we made up our minds we ought to meet since we treasure each other.”

In April 2021, Amber published on the Teen Mother OG reunion special that she used to be accumulated relationship Dimitri. “We've known each other now for 18 months,” she explained. “But I haven't seen him in a one year despite the proven fact that.” Though the pair struggled with now not being in a position to physically put apart a query to 1 another all the strategy during the pandemic, they are reportedly accumulated talking.

Gary Shirley & Kristina Anderson

Months after Gary and now-spouse Kristina Anderson welcomed daughter Emilee in April 2015, they wed in a sweet seaside ceremony.

“You might maybe well well maybe be one amongst basically the most comely souls I know,” Gary wrote in a 2022 Instagram put up. “I don’t know the strategy I would enact this with out you.”

Farrah Abraham & Derek Underwood

The daddy of Farrah Abraham's daughter Sophia died in an accident two months sooner than her birth in December 2008.

Farrah Abraham & Simon Saran

Her first serious relationship attributable to the death of her excessive college boyfriend, Farrah dated proper property agent Simon Saran on and off for over two years.

Though their 2017 split bought grisly (as in cease-and-desist grisly), the 2 gave a stab at searching to remain associates. Sorta.

“I scheme now not maintain any annoying feelings against Farrah,” Simon instructed E! Records at the time. “We’re staunch from two assorted worlds. She likes the fake life, I need what's proper. I wish the completely for her and much success in all of her future endeavors.”

Jenelle Evans & Andrew Lewis

Jenelle Evans and Andrew Lewis, other folks to now-teenage Jace, split now not long after his 2009 birth, with the model having no involvement in his son's life.

“I enact in actuality feel tainted attributable to that’s Jace's dad,” Jenelle reflected on a 2019 episode of Teen Mother 2. “But I know the strategy he’s, and I don’t need him to disappoint my son. I don’t need [him] to pop lend a hand in after which pop lend a hand out.”

Jenelle Evans & David Eason

After a one-one year marriage to Courtland Rogers, and having her 2d child, Kaiser, with ex-boyfriend Nathan Griffin in 2014, Jenelle wed David Eason on their North Carolina property in September 2017, eight months after they welcomed their daughter Ensley.

After an extremely rocky stretch noticed David charged with a toddler abuse misdemeanor inviting Jace (at the time, Jenelle likened it to a “smear advertising campaign”), Jenelle published they had separated. “I would've skipped straight to divorce nonetheless I couldn't attributable to within the assert of North Carolina, you ought to be legally separated for a one year,” she explained on social media, “and it is valuable to level to you maintain got two separate addresses.”

Chelsea Houska & Adam Lind

Be conscious the charmer who asked then-female friend Chelsea Houska when he might maybe well well “signal the papers over for that mistake”?

Completely within the rearview.

Against all odds, the Teen Mother massive title-turned-HGTV persona has a significantly copacetic relationship along with her excessive college ex Adam Lind, mom to her eldest daughter Aubree. “There’s no tainted vibes and it’s staunch a truly launch relationship,” she instructed Us Weekly. “There’s no tainted feelings. We put apart a query to him every so continually and it’s completely stunning.”

Chelsea Houska & Cole DeBoer

What started as a meet-cute at a gasoline location in 2014 grew to become forever when the pair wed in October 2016. After welcoming son Watson in 2017 and daughters Layne and Walker in 2018 and 2021, respectively, the pair launched a brand fresh joint project: Their HGTV sequence Down Home Fab.

“If we were going to attain lend a hand lend a hand to TV, I wished it to be something lighthearted, in actuality feel horny and be in a position to masks our first rate selves,” Chelsea explained to E! Records, sharing why this transfer felt “so supreme.” As she put apart it, “This used to be staunch this form of fab opportunity to enact that.”

Leah Messer & Corey Simms

Though then-excessive schooler Leah Messer and Corey Simms fought to turn their friendship actual into a forever household, the other folks to now-teenage twins Aleeah and Aliannah filed for divorce six months after their October 2010 marriage ceremony.

Corey has been married to Miranda Patterson since 2013.

Leah Messer & Jeremy Calvert

Leah went on to wed pipeliner Jeremy Calvert in 2012, the couple welcoming daughter Adalynn the next one year.

Though they split in 2015, they’ve made an effort to coparent their daughter. “I'm taking a uncover at a whole, higher version of myself,” Leah instructed E! Records of her ladies. “And seeing everything that they fancy and revel in doing, and being in a position to make stronger them in their lives and be half of it is magical. I treasure it. I treasure being a mom, particularly a girl mama.”

Leah Messer & Jaylan Mobley

By the level Leah went Instagram first rate with Jaylan Mobley in 2021, the USA Army officer had already charmed her and her daughters.

The couple presented their engagement in August 2022, nonetheless broke up that October.

“I a valuable that breakup,” the Teen Mother massive title confessed to E! Records a one year later. “I've learned plenty from my last breakup and, shifting forward, I enact in actuality feel treasure my life is staunch foundation.”

Kailyn Lowry & Jo Rivera

Kailyn Lowry used to be staunch 17 when she and excessive college boyfriend Jo Rivera welcomed their eldest son, Isaac, in 2010.

And despite the proven fact that they split a one year later, they've since settled actual into a delighted coparenting procedure, Kailyn even internet hosting her Puny one Mamas No Drama podcast with Jo's spouse Vee Torres. “We’ve arrive a protracted methodology since we were 18,” Kailyn wrote on X after attending Jo and Vee's 2018 marriage ceremony. “I couldn’t request for an even bigger stepmom for isaac.”

Kailyn Lowry & Javi Marroquin

Kailyn's 2d son Lincoln joined the squad in November 2013, roughly a one year after the then-massive title of Teen Mother 2 wed his father Javi Marroquin.

Splitting in slack 2016, their relationship has been rocky at times, with Javi and female friend Lauren Comeau—already other folks to son Eli—asserting in December 2023 that they were searching at for their 2d child collectively, a girl.

Kailyn Lowry & Chris Lopez

Though Kailyn welcomed sons Lux and Creed with boyfriend Chris Lopez all the strategy through their on-and-off romance, they within the raze called it quits for horny.

“Ravishing now, we don't talk at all,” she published to E! Records in 2020. “I'm hoping that this can get better with time nonetheless I don't maintain a worthy vision. I don't maintain the relaxation unfavorable to claim. I’m hoping for our formative years that everything works itself out in in spite of direction which might maybe be.”

Kailyn Lowry & Elijah Scott

With fresh boyfriend Elijah Scott, Kailyn within the raze feels she has a solid foundation. “It's been very assorted from my other companions and my formative years' other dads,” she instructed Of us of Elijah, dad to her son Rio and twins Verse and Valley. “He pours concrete, he will get down and soiled at work. But he's also staunch a proper household man. He's very, an excellent deal connected along with his maintain household, with our household, and so he's been a terribly horny accomplice to me, and I in actuality feel treasure it's a terribly horny match.”

But she's now not in a position to streak down the aisle staunch but. “He's been pushing for it,” admitted Kailyn. “But I've already extra or less done marriage as soon as and I f–ked it up royally. So I'm a slight bit hesitant.”

Jade Cline & Sean Austin

Though Indiana-based mostly completely mostly Jade Cline and Sean Austin had extra than their half of united states of americaand down since welcoming daughter Kloie in 2017, in January 2022 Jade teased to followers that they were on the upward thrust.

“There were some predominant, predominant issues that came about with our lives and predominant enhancements that happen with Sean's life as successfully and along with his future,” she instructed E! Records. “I'm in actuality at ease with him and where we are at the present time.” Eight months later, the pair presented their engagement, marrying in October 2023.

“I know for obvious my relationship isn't regularly supreme,” Jade instructed E! Records in 2024. “But we fancy each other and we produce it work.”

Ashley Siren & Bar Smith

California natives Ashley Jones and Bar Smith wed in 2021—four years after they welcomed daughter Holly. And whereas the pair has publicly called off their romance several times, they accumulated appear to be collectively.

Briana DeJesus & Devoin Austin II

Years after 16 and Pregnant massive title Briana DeJesus and Devoin Austin II welcomed their daughter Nova in 2011, they flirted with giving their romance one other shot.

For the time being, nonetheless, Briana instructed E! Records in 2024, “I desire a man man, I don't desire a slight bit boy that I've been so aged to relationship lend a hand within the past.”

Briana DeJesus & Luis Miguel

After starring on the one season of Teen Mother 3, Briana joined the solid of Teen Mother 2 in its eighth season, and gave birth to her 2d daughter, Stella, with ex-boyfriend Luis Miguel, on July 2017.

Since then, Luis' involvement has been spotty at completely. “I believe he wants a household with me,” Briana explained to Dr. Drew in a December 2019 Teen Mother 2 episode, “and since I'm now not giving that to him, he staunch needs to take care of away completely.”

Briana DeJesus & John Rodriguez

Almost at present after celebrating their one-one year anniversary at a tropical destination in 2019, Briana called it quits with then-boyfriend John Rodriguez.

To position it bluntly, she shared in an episode of the MTV hit, she merely stopped loving him. “It sucks attributable to I kicked him to the curb,” she licensed, “nonetheless he didn't fight to be with me both. I wished him to fight for me nonetheless he didn't.”

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