He could come at any moment!
Back Off!!
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Luckily, it’s obvious that she and Andrew eventually worked things out. Unfortunately, there were some rocky moments along the way. Amber was blasted early on in their relationship after she shared a picture of Andrew hanging out with her daughter Leah after they’d only been dating a short while. Fans thought she may be sending mixed messages to Leah.
“I like Amber and I said she’s come a long way,” Instagram user @giggles2laugh wrote. “But she brings men in to her daughters life seemingly quickly and to see this girl next to a man she knows less than 8 months I’m going to say. Even under a year. It’s not like they’ve been a family for a long time. I just felt uneasy that she’d put and or let her daughter be in the position/situation.” User sheenajeanbrown wrote, “It’s seriously so sad though that it seems you can’t be the mother you need to be unless you are in a relationship and ‘playing house.’”
Many other commenters wrote similar messages to Amber, and she fired back quickly — and angrily.
“Anyone with rude and obscene comments can f*ck off!!” she captioned an Instagram update of the middle finger.
“I share my life and family with you all however that doesn’t mean I need everyone’s ignorant opinions! It’s sad when my 9 year old thinks a picture is funny and cute and I can’t even post it without f*cked up comments from ignorant people. I have an amazing daughter and a loving and brilliant man. Andrew is a kind hearted loving man and takes good care of his new growing family! Send love not hate!!”
This isn’t the only rocky patch Amber went through. She and Andrew had a pretty ugly fight about their son’s nursery that was revealed on Teen Mom OG.
Getting Ugly
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“I’m thirteen weeks pregnant,” Amber told a producer in an episode from last season of Teen Mom OG. “I think I’m far along enough to where I could find out what [gender] the baby is on Monday.”
“Yeah,” Andrew said, but added, “Do you want to find out?”
Amber seemed taken aback immediately. “Well, of course I do,” she said, looking offended.
“Do you want to wait just a little bit longer?” Andrew asked. “You just want the mystery gone?”
“Why do I need a mystery on a baby?!” Amber demanded. When Andrew suggested painting the nursery a neutral color like “taupe or something,” Amber rolled her eyes. “No, baby, listen,” she said. “I want to know what the baby is so I can get prepared. If it’s a boy, I’ve never had a boy.” Then she exclaimed, “I’m getting annoyed right now, I’m getting stressed out!”
Andrew suggested just getting “gender neutral stuff,” but Amber lost it. “Stop!” she said. “I’m done! I’m done!” When Andrew went on about the color, she cursed and added, “What is happening?! What is the big deal? … I’m getting p*ssed off! It’s the weirdest argument, it’s the weirdest thing!”
Andrew again insisted, “It’s called gender neutral,” but Amber yelled, “Baby, I don’t give a s**t about your hippie bulls**t right now! I’m done!” It’s not a comfortable argument to watch, but you can check out the whole thing for yourself here.
“Messy” Relationship
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Their relationship has even been criticized by the professionals! After all, these two have a one-of-a-kind story of how they met. Amber explained that Andrew fell in love with her while she was filming for Marriage Boot Camp — and trying to patch things up with Matt Baier! Even the hosts of the show, Dr. Ish and Dr. Venus, have shared their thoughts about this relationship.
“The issues with [her new relationship] is the impulsivity of it,” Dr. Ish told In Touch Weekly. “You are in a program designed to get you some closure and move forward in your life, in wherever direction that takes you — but while you’re in the program, the guy you came with doesn’t work out, so you end up with another guy, and you ended up getting pregnant — it’s a mess.” He added that Amber’s “personality issue” may have contributed to her inability to be alone.
“I certainly don’t like the fact that it happened while she was there, and it speaks to me that there might be more of the same in store for her with [Andrew],” Dr. Ish went on. “The thing that’s the same in every dysfunctional relationship she’s had is her. She’s the common link. That makes me worry for her in this relationship also.”
Dr. Venus chimed in to agree, “We shouldn’t find stability in our children or in our relationships. Stability needs to come from within us.”