Amber Portwood is struggling to get over her latest failed engagement.
The Teen Mom: The Next Chapter star is reportedly still heartbroken over her breakup with Gary “Gary 2.0” Wyat and, according to a source for Us Weekly, Amber is trying to understand what caused Gary to bolt just weeks after he proposed.
“Amber has been taking the last few weeks to heal and reflect on what happened,” the source said. “Right now, she’s focusing on finishing up her home and getting her life together.”
The couch enthusiast is even attempting to regulate her sleep in the wake of her engagement blowing up.
“She even put herself on a sleep schedule in order to be her best mentally,” the source said.
As The Ashley reported last month, Gary and Amber attended the wedding of Amber’s brother Shawn Portwood in North Carolina. Days later, Amber tearfully begged fans for prayers for her fiancé, who stormed out of their vacation rental without his phone and took off without contacting her or his family. The search for Gary lasted several days– with Gary even being officially listed as a missing person in North Carolina— before Gary was spotted in Oklahoma and New Mexico. He later called police to let them know he was “missing” by choice and wasn’t in danger.
Amber— who was left stranded in North Carolina after Gary fled the state— eventually hitched a ride home to Indiana with her ‘Teen Mom’ co-star Maci Bookout. Amber and Gary 2.0’s engagement officially ended in late June, after the former lovers finally communicated.
“The situation with her ex really threw her for a loop,” the source for Us Weekly stated. “She thought [Gary 2.0] was her first real love. He proposed to her and made a lot of promises about their future only to bail. Meeting someone worthwhile is hard for most people in the world right now and Amber is no exception.
“She knows she has had a pattern of choosing the wrong men,” the source added.
The magazine’s source stated that Gary 2.0 still has belongings stored at Amber’s house and Ambie is ready to “get rid of them.”
(As The Ashley told you, Gary has moved on— and was even recently spotted on dating apps. He mentioned in his dating app bio that he just moved to a new location.)
Amber introduced Gary 2.0 as her boyfriend on a recent episode of ‘Next Chapter.’ After Gary went “missing,” Amber did a Live interview with YouTuber Elle Bee and raved that she and Gary 2.0 had a “wonderful relationship.” She did admit, however, to getting into an “emotional discussion” while in North Carolina after Shawn’s wedding. Amber claimed the discussion was mostly about Gary’s family being unhappy that he was engaged to “Amber from ‘Teen Mom.’”
“It was emotional, because it has something to do with the fact of his parents being Vietnamese, and me being who I am and stuff like that,” Amber said at the time. “It had nothing to do with us personally, OK? This is the only thing that happened. He was very upset about this, I was upset.”
Us Weekly reports that Gary’s family did, in fact, get upset about the engagement after they Googled Amber and read about her past antics (which, as ‘Teen Mom’ fans know, include prison time, several arrests for domestic battery, and multiple broken engagements, among other things.)
“[The engagement news] created some family tension,” the magazine source stated last month. “Gary’s family was looking her up online and looking at her past and not everything they saw online was true. And it was hard for Amber because she’s been trying so hard to move past it and move forward.”
Amber’s engagement to Gary 2.0 is at least her fourth failed engagement. She was previously engaged to Matt Baier, and was engaged (twice!) to Gary Shirley, the father of her daughter Leah. Amber was also in a serious relationship (that ended very badly) to Andrew Glennon, the father of Amber’s son James. She has never actually made it down the aisle.
RELATED STORY: Amber Portwood’s Engagement to Gary Wyat Has Officially Ended; ‘Teen Mom’ Star’s Past Reportedly Contributed to the Split
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Didn’t she also date a guy from another Country? She had Gary take her to the airport to pick him up for a visit because she was nervous
Amber is a NARCISSIST! Focus on your kids! You have nothing to offer a man but misery
I am GLAD his family Googled her and told him she’s bad for him. Ambien is always like “poor me, no one will love me” while never looking into herself why she behaves the way she does. There will be soon another partner, another engagement, messy breakup…Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
Isn’t it WILD that she was the oldest Teen Mom yet…acts very immature?!
She is a joke
“She knows she has had a pattern of choosing the wrong men.”
Or – SHE has a pattern of being the wrong woman. The codependency of this one is rill. Too bad she doesn’t put as much effort into being a good mother to her children as she does chasing men. If I didn’t have custody of any of my children due to my extremely poor life decisions and behavior, I’d be prioritizing therapy and working on myself before anything else. I feel sorry for her children because they don’t have their biological mother to rely on, but at the same time I think the fact that her children aren’t in her life are the very best thing for both of them.
The couch enthusiast 😂
I nearly spit out my coffee!
I feel bad for her.Everyone deserves love in life even Amber.
Tell that to the children who have been cast aside by Amber and have been present during her violent outbursts. Tell that to the men she has physically assaulted. Those people deserve love from someone they do not need to fear.
If she’s unwilling to offer love, how can she expect anyone to love her? You may think she deserves love, but in saying that it’s also suggesting that the people she “loves”(read: is supposed to love) deserve all the torment, abuse, gaslighting and every other negative thing she doles out since she’s clearly incapable of actually loving anyone (except herself, of course)?
She can’t even commit to being a half-ass parent, much less a loving one. No one deserves the shit she doles out. Imo, she isn’t deserving of love if she has no desire to give it to anyone else. I don’t feel even a tiny bit bad for her. She dug this hole, she’s still digging it. She had, and still has, plenty of ways out, but apparently she likes her hole too much. Shrugs.
Amber needs to get herself on a “be a good mother” schedule.
Rill women don’t need a sleep schedule.
Snort 😂
Hasn’t Amber talked about getting her life together for over a decade? It’s wonderful she is putting herself on a sleep schedule, like a toddler or infant needs to be. Hopefully she has a couple naps too so she isn’t cranky.
She needs to put herself in an inpatient hospital to actually work on herself. This crazy relationship just proves she’s still extremely unstable. Also, the fact that she verbally abused and gaslit Leah at her bday party. I really do believe that she is also a narcissist. I know all about bpd, bp, trauma. Most of us are not this unhinged and cruel. It has to be more than just those illnesses she admits.
I feel like Amber needs Intensive Outpatient. Amber needs to focus on accepting adult responsibilities and integrating them into her life. The last thing she needs is to sit in a hospital focusing even more time on herself and her feelings.
A sleep schedule for
AmbienAmber?!?!!… is today April 1st, and my calendar is off???
Just glad she didn’t get pregnant before the split.
I would be upset too if my son ended up being with “amber from teen mom”. I mean, that is a big mess being brought into the family.
Who is down voting these comments?? Wild🫤
I think if you don’t tap it just right it votes thumbs down. And you can’t go back and change it.
Amber, go see a mental health professional. If you already have one, change it. You are all talk, no change. You continue to make bad choices after bad choices, continue being an abuser, and you continue to fail in relationships it be romantic or simple friends and family type of relationships. It’s been 17 years since you first appeared on tv with your nonsense! Stop trying to figure out what went wrong, your persona is the problem. You are the common denominator, that one thing who is constantly bringing/ causing problems to you and everyone around you. For the sake of the people who can’t run away from you: seek help, real help – hard core mental help. I’m certain that everyone who’s someway or another obligated to maintain contact with you is fed up of your never ending shit, problems and negativity you bring to anyone around. Give them people a f break, already!
Imagine having zero responsibilities in life by her age yet still being fortunate enough to be bringing in a decent pay check and still needing to put yourself on a sleep schedule. Send her to a third world country or even expose her to the reality of the low socio-economic lifestyle she would have been living by now if MTV hadn’t come along and let’s see how she goes. Most people don’t have the luxury of being able to put themselves on a sleep schedule as we have actual responsibilities in life. God this makes me mad!!
Granted, this isn’t Amber by definition, but some functioning adults are bad at putting themselves to bed at an appropriate time. I’m working while finishing my BSN and just…keep being awake. I’m consciously putting myself on a “sleep schedule” if I’m asleep before one.
I can be at work at seven or eight if I need to but that doesn’t mean I went to bed when I knew I should have. 🤷🏻♀️
(Also strongly an ADHD trait).
She needs a “celibate schedule” to get her sh*t together before engaging in another relationship
Girl needs the schedule only inpatient treatment could manage…
If she puts down the drugs, she’d have a regular sleep schedule.
A SLEEP SCHEDULE?????? You mean.. a person with no custody of her kids, no job, no responsibilities, isn’t already on her very own sleep schedule??
It’s nice when you don’t have custody of your kids and you can organise a sleep schedule