💔 “Alone Forever?” Kim Plath’s Heartbreaking Fear After Divorce Tears Her from Her Kids!

Barry and Kim Plath sent shockwaves through the reality TV world when they revealed they were divorcing. The two were married for a quarter of a century and have nine children together. Now, fans are seeing Kim and her family navigate their new dynamics in the all-new Welcome to Plathville season.

Kim Plath says she and her ex, Barry, “lost their connection,” and ended up leading two separate lives. She took a big risk leaving her marriage and now is interested in breaking into the dating pool. The TLC star kicks off Welcome to Plathville season 6 wanting to meet somebody who she has an “initial attraction” with and feels it’s time to find a partner for the second part of her life.

Kim’s new life is ‘scary and lonely’

Although Kim feels more “free and independent,” she says her current life situation is “scary and lonely,” adding how sometimes she’s “sad.”

Before finding her current boyfriend, Ken, she tells the cameras:

“I haven’t dated anyone for 25 years. Bill Clinton had recently become president, it’s been a while.”

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During season 6, she’s living in an apartment by herself. She says: “Last year I asked Barry for a divorce and we’re still in process.

“I knew that in pursuing this divorce I was risking losing friends, and the trust of my children, I knew that all of those things were potentially going to be lost and I was so unhappy in the marriage that it was worth losing those things for the possibility of a happier future.”

Welcome to Plathville kids split half their time with each parent

Following Kim’s decision to divorce Barry, her life has totally changed. She had an initial plan for the split, but things didn’t go as she expected.

She says on Welcome to Plathville: “Originally, we were planning on me staying at the house with the children and Barry moving out, but Barry wouldn’t move. So, rather than stay in the same house with him, I moved to the apartment.”

The reality TV star is adjusting to having different responsibilities these days: “Divorce has been hard. For 25 years, Barry handled all of the logistics of the household.”

Everything from “budget to income, and making sure all the bills got paid” was Barry’s domain.

Kim says: “I did, basically, the parenting. Now that we’re separate we both have to do both roles. It’s scary, it’s overwhelming.”

Some days, she says wants to “buy a sailboat and just go off and send a postcard once a year.”

But, she adds: “I wouldn’t do that because of the children.”

She has her kids “about half the time,” and explains how they’ve “settled into a routine” where “the girls and Isaac come over for homeschooling and stay the night, we hang out and watch movies.”

“I do miss seeing them every day. But, that does make the time that we do have together that much sweeter,” she adds.

“This is all new for me. I’ve never been divorced before, I’ve never co-parented before, it’s scary thinking about the uncertainty of ‘Am I going to be single for the rest of my life?’, ‘What if I never find somebody?’, I can be alone forever, and that’s not pleasant, either, but it’s a chance that I’m taking. There’s nothing more lonely than being with someone who makes you feel lonely.”

Thankfully, Kim’s concerns over “being alone forever,” can be squashed now as she met boyfriend Ken through her son, Isaac.