In the Teen Mom 2 episode “Hurricane,” Kailyn Lowry invites Tyler and Catelynn Baltierra to appear on her podcast in New York City. She tells her guests she wants to pick their brains about the best way to go about rekindling a relationship with her mother. In the past, Kailyn has had a difficult time with her mother (they’ve had fist fights) when her mother wasn’t sober. Kailyn has “cut her off entirely.”
But now that Kailyn’s third son is about to turn one, she wants to reach out to her mother which won’t be easy. Kailyn claims not to know where her mother lives nor does she have her phone number. Kailyn feels like her relationship with her mother is similar to Tyler’s relationship with his father Butch, who is currently living a sober life. When Kailyn tells her guests that she now wants to reach out to her mother, Tyler asks a really good question: “Do you want it for you or your kids?” Kailyn says for her kids.
Kailyn wants to know how Tyler managed his anger when his father wasn’t sober. Tyler says he did a lot of “inner work” and refers to his personal therapy. Tyler says he learned to accept his father as an addict and has come to understand that he can’t change anyone (including his father) but he can control how he reacts to people and their behavior. Tyler has become the most enlightened person on the show. Teen Mom 2 airs Mondays at 9 pm on MTV. [BONUS: Stream any MTV show through the MTV Digital App found here. Download is FREE.]
