Ethan Plath made his sister Lydia Plath cry on the newest episode of Welcome to Plathville, criticizing her whirlwind romance with Zac Wyse previous to their engagement.
“I would like you to be pleased, and I’m very pleased to see that you simply’re pleased. However I simply need to say it,” Ethan, 27, advised his youthful sister, 21, on the Tuesday, August 5, episode of the TLC collection. “You’ve solely recognized him for 3 months and also you’re getting married in two months. Are you positive you’re good with that?”
Whereas Lydia stated she was assured that Zac was The One, Ethan questioned the velocity of their engagement and subsequent marriage. (Zac and Lydia set a date for his or her wedding ceremony earlier than he popped the query.)
“It’s too quick. It’s an excessive amount of. … I don’t actually know him. I don’t actually like him. Simply being sincere with you,” Ethan advised Lydia, admitting that he didn’t have an actual purpose for his emotions. “I simply don’t like him, however I don’t know if that’s as a result of I don’t know him but or if it’s simply because I’m being protecting of you and it’s all actually quick.”
Lydia obtained quiet and broke down into tears earlier than hugging her massive brother. Ethan finally stated, “I really feel like I don’t know you actually. I don’t speak to you numerous now you’re gone already.”
The siblings had their heart-to-heart hours earlier than Zac’s shock proposal, and thru the tears realized that possibly Zac wasn’t the difficulty between them — at the very least not completely.
“That’s simply the primary time that I actually really feel you care,” Lydia confessed to Ethan, who responded, “I didn’t know you didn’t know.”

Lydia then advised the cameras that whereas her brother “doesn’t actually like Zac,” she thinks “it’s a lot deeper than that.”
“I believe the issue is extra he doesn’t know me very nicely,” she continued. “And that’s a tough actuality to face.”
“I want we might have had extra alternatives to be shut,” Lydia then advised Ethan by tears. “I do know it’s been exhausting with you in Minnesota, and there have been by no means alternatives for it to be expressed.”
Ethan replied, “Now you do know,” confessing, “I’m simply being exhausting on Zac as a result of I believe that you simply’re simply superb and no person actually ever could be adequate for you.”
The eldest Plath sibling later advised the cameras that listening to how distant Lydia feels he’s been “stings a little bit bit.” Ethan additionally revealed that whereas it’s “not my place” to inform Lydia to not marry Zac so rapidly, he wished to verify she was being “cautious.”
“I’ve seen him shield [our sister] Moriah at occasions, and I knew he and Moriah have been actually shut. I simply all the time wished that for myself, and I really feel like I in all probability obtained that as we speak,” Lydia stated in her confessional. “Not that he has something to guard me from, however simply the truth that he’s displaying he cares.”
Whereas Ethan has been vocal all season about how briskly Zac and Lydia have been transferring, the couple obtained engaged in December 2024. (Followers will see the proposal play out subsequent week on the TLC collection.)
Lydia and Zac tied the knot in February surrounded by their family members, together with Ethan, who was available to rejoice. The ceremony happened on the Plath farm in Georgia.
Welcome to Plathville airs on TLC Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET.