Ethan Plath made his sister Lydia Plath cry on the most recent episode of Welcome to Plathville, criticizing her whirlwind romance with Zac Wyse previous to their engagement.
“I need you to be completely satisfied, and I’m very completely satisfied to see that you just’re completely satisfied. However I simply must say it,” Ethan, 27, instructed 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 mentioned 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 trustworthy with you,” Ethan instructed Lydia, admitting that he didn’t have a precise motive 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 acquired quiet and broke down into tears earlier than hugging her huge brother. Ethan finally mentioned, “I really feel like I don’t know you actually. I don’t speak to you a large number 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 perhaps Zac wasn’t the difficulty between them — no less than 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 instructed the cameras that whereas her brother “doesn’t actually like Zac,” she thinks “it’s a lot deeper than that.”
“I feel the issue is extra he doesn’t know me very properly,” she continued. “And that’s a tough actuality to face.”
“I want we might have had extra alternatives to be shut,” Lydia then instructed Ethan by means of tears. “I do know it’s been laborious 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 laborious on Zac as a result of I feel that you just’re simply wonderful and no one actually ever can be adequate for you.”
The eldest Plath sibling later instructed the cameras that listening to how distant Lydia feels he’s been “stings a bit bit.” Ethan additionally revealed that whereas it’s “not my place” to inform Lydia to not marry Zac so rapidly, he wished to ensure she was being “cautious.”
“I’ve seen him defend [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 most likely acquired that at this time,” Lydia mentioned 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 shifting, the couple acquired 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 readily available to rejoice. The ceremony passed off on the Plath farm in Georgia.
Welcome to Plathville airs on TLC Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET.