This summer season, a long and sour custody combat reached its conclusion.
In the tip, Amber Portwood misplaced custody of her younger son, James. He is now dwelling with Andrew in a mansion in any other state.
In this week’s Teen Mom: The Next Chapter, Gary Shirley and his spouse, Kristina, are processing this information.
It’s arduous. They’ve been thru a lot with Amber, however, they have got a tearful dialog about her ache.
On Tuesday evening’s episode, Gary Shirley shared with Kristina that he had spoken with Amber Portwood.
Amber is not just his ex; she could also be the mum of his daughter, Leah.
Gary reported to his spouse that he had mentioned the brand new state of affairs with Amber and “she sounded really sad.”
An Indiana pass judgment on, the couple stated, had dominated in want of Andrew Glennon.
The family court docket determined that Andrew would no longer simplest obtain custody of the previous couple’s son, but in addition, permission to transport out of state.
Andrew had famous that he had activity provides in California — and a call for participation to transport into his mom’s Malibu mansion.
As the dialogue persisted, Andrew and Kristina each expressed their emotions about the topic.
Kristina, who is a mom herself, started to rip up.
It was once out of sympathy — for Amber, for Leah, and it seems that for little James himself.
Meanwhile, and regardless of his ex’s lengthy and alarming historical past, Gary expressed authentic marvel on the circle of relatives’ court docket ruling.
“I had a feeling it wouldn’t be 50-50,” he admitted.
“But,” Gary persisted, “I didn’t think he was gonna be allowed to take him out of the state.”
“She’s proved, at least in my opinion, she can take care of James,” Gary expressed.
“It sucks. All I can think of is poor James,” Kristina cried.
She then admitted: “I can’t imagine how she feels.”
“I guess I’m just in shock and upset by it,” Kristina defined her pained response to the scoop.
Amber has indeed been merciless to Gary and Kristina (bodily abusing the previous of the 2, again when Leah was once little).
But Gary has, for classy causes, grown to sympathize with Amber lately. And so has Kristina.
And later, all over a similar episode, Gary had not to simplest speak about the scoop with any other circle of relatives member — he needed to wreck the scoop.
He sat down with Leah, who’s 13 years outdated.
When he shared the scoop with her, even she lamented what this implies.
Leah expressed to her father that “It’s unfair” that Amber will not have custody of James.
“My mom and James have a nice relationship,” she noticed.
Leah then very maturely stated that this mother-child bond is “Not like we had when I was growing up.”
“It’s like all the work she’s gone through to be here,” Leah lamented.
She expressed that “now it seems like it’s all for nothing.”
We’re certain that Amber, who repeatedly touts her personal growth and believes that it will have to override her non-public and felony historical past, will likely be satisfied to listen to her say that.
Meanwhile, Kristina presented ethical reinforcement to Amber.
“Leah doesn’t want you to feel like a failure as a mother,” Kristina informed her, “because you are not.”
Sometimes, telling a type to mislead any person does not hurt.
