Through the first two spring episodes of Little People, Big World, one clear theme has emerged:
Amy Roloff is not very happy.
On the first new installment of this TLC reality show, Amy talked openly about maybe moving far away from ex-husband — and on the second installment, she made it crystal clear why.
It really all comes down to Matt’s relationship with Caryn Chandler.
“Caryn is an employee and in a personal relationship with my ex-husband, so it is still hard to invite Caryn to some of the family events,” Roloff said last Tuesday night.
It’s both true and understandable:
Chandler has worked as the manager at Roloff Farms since 2006.
She started dating Matt shortly after he and Amy filed for divorce in May of 2016, prompting Amy to admit on air last week, even after all this time:
“I’d rather minimize the personal interaction [with them]. It’s not healthy for me.”
So Amy herself has spoken candidly about this awkwardness.
And now an insider has taken her feelings once step further, telling Radar Online just how much of a struggle it is for Amy to see Matt with Caryn.
“Of course Amy feels betrayed,” this Roloff source tells Radar, explaining:
“The way he’s treating Caryn is nothing like how he treated her during their marriage. It was like a blow to the chest.”
To be clear, Amy isn’t necessarily jealous of Matt and Caryn.
She has been dating Chris Marek for over a year now and is clearly very content in this relationship. (Just take one look at her Instagram page for proof.)
It’s just weird is all. That’s the basic point here.
Amy is fine that Matt has moved on because she’s done the same… but he’s moved on with someone she has known for over a decade and with whom she still must interact on a frequent basis.
“It really made Amy feel insecure about who she was and the type of wife she was,” Radar writes of who Matt has chosen to date, and how quickly he got together with Chandler once he was single.
Roloff admitted on the previous episode of her family’s reality program that she has to be “adult” in the way she handles Matt’s romance.
On plenty of occasions, such as family birthday parties, she’ll be in the same room or same vicinity as Caryn.
Still, this doesn’t mean “I have to accept” or embrace the development, Amy added last Tuesday.
Thankfully, however, she has had Chris by her side this entire time…
… and it’s clear this won’t be changing in the near or distance future.
“The good thing to come out this though is Chris,” Radar concludes in its report. “She met Chris, and he is so good to her and they are happy. He doesn’t take her for granted.”
That much is apparent.
Scroll back up to the first image in this article and you’ll see Amy and Chris sitting happily together at dinner.
The photo was snapped on the cruise this couple just took together, and it was accompanied by the following Amy-written caption:
The end to a wonderful time on a cruise w/ Chris and friends.
What a fun and great time on Royal Caribbean cruise. We’re heading back home today and looking forward to the next adventure.
