Catelynn Lowell and Tyler Baltierra secretly split earlier this year.
According to a new report, the longtime Teen Mom OG couple spent time apart months ago, around the time that Catelynn changed her last name on Instagram from “Baltierra” back to “Lowell” and traveled to Florida without her husband.
“They definitely did take a break for a very short amount of time, privately,” a source told Radar Online on July 13. “They did it to just figure things out so Cate could find out who she is outside of her mental illness.”
“[Tyler] wasn’t happy,” the insider continued. “He hadn’t been for a long time and he finally expressed all of that to her.”
In May, as Catelynn prompted rumors of a potentially impending divorce with her Instagram name change, Tyler fueled those rumors by sharing a shocking poem on his own page.
“That pathetic f**k up who got famous just for f**king his girlfriend and getting her knocked up, man I can’t wait for this show to finally end. That motherf**ker’s gotta get a job even though I doubt that he could and he’s gotta leave that brand if he ever wants to be heard,” his message said.
While Catelynn and Tyler went through a rocky patch in their marriage, they are currently “working on their relationship [and are] slowly getting to a better place,” the source explained.
“Even on a break, they didn’t want to date other people,” the insider added. “Tyler has been kind of quiet about their current status, but that’s because they haven’t been filming.”
Teen Mom OG will return to MTV later this year for season eight.