Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ Taylor Paul on Dakota Engagement Plans

The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Taylor Frankie Paul and boyfriend Dakota Mortensen are nonetheless “constructing” their relationship.

The TikTok star, 30, completely advised Us Weekly that she and Mortensen, 31, are in no rush to stroll down the aisle after welcoming their first little one collectively, son Ever, in March. (Taylor shares two extra kids, daughter Indy, 7, and son Ocean, 4, with ex-husband Tate Paul.)

“I simply need to take my time with this time round, that is my second marriage. It’ll be essential to me, and I don’t need to find yourself in one other state of affairs of being divorced,” Taylor defined to Us about the potential for getting engaged to Mortensen. “So, I actually simply need every thing to be actually strong and have a basis of belief. And so I really feel like that takes time. I’d love for that to be the top objective. However proper now, I believe constructing it as much as that’s the place I’m at.”

The couple’s ups and downs from the previous yr are documented within the premiere season of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, and Taylor admitted will probably be “extraordinarily laborious” to look at again.

“I really feel like I’d’ve vented to my mother and been somewhat harsh — and he’s very delicate — so I really feel prefer it could possibly be rather a lot tougher for him,” Taylor stated. “Additionally it could possibly be triggering, too, to convey up these conversations. Particularly, I believe I’ve heard the [season] cliffhanger, in order that in itself stirs up some stuff. We’re doing good at present, we’re going by work, so I actually hope that not an excessive amount of comes out.”

Season 1 ends on a stunning cliffhanger when Mayci Neeley calls a lady named Jenna about allegations that she cheated with Mortensen. Jenna claims she’ll inform Neeley “every thing” earlier than the episode involves a screeching halt.

Previous to Neeley calling Jenna, she already spoke to Taylor and Mortensen concerning the dishonest allegations. Though Mortensen accused Neeley of making an attempt to sabotage his relationship throughout the present, Taylor advised Us she had “no drawback” with Neeley calling Jenna.

“On the finish of the day, I used to be like, ‘Why is that this a difficulty to name?’ I used to be positive together with her calling her as a result of I’m like, ‘What’s there to cover?’” Taylor recalled. “If there’s nothing to cover, there ought to be no query. However that may be a very main set off for me, and he is aware of that. So it wasn’t one thing he was eager to convey on the present. So I suppose on the finish of the day, we’ll see how that finally ends up going as a result of I don’t know. I’ve no drawback with it although.”

Taylor and Mortensen debuted their relationship in July 2023, almost one yr after she introduced her former husband, Tate, was submitting for divorce within the wake of their Mormon good friend group’s comfortable swinging scandal. Taylor revealed particulars concerning the scandal through TikTok in June 2022, explaining that she and Tate engaged in comfortable swinging with many {couples} inside their “MomTok” group, however she violated the group’s association by taking issues too far with one of many different husbands. Taylor has since referred to as the state of affairs the “tip of the iceberg” of her and Tate’s cut up, noting they’d “a whole lot of different points.”

Though issues gave the impression to be easy crusing between Taylor and Mortensen, she introduced their cut up six months later after she suffered an ectopic being pregnant.

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The couple reunited within the following months, however they made headlines as soon as once more in February 2023 when Taylor was arrested for home violence after she allegedly threw a chair at Mortensen that ended up hanging her daughter, who was 5 on the time. Taylor was charged her with aggravated assault, two counts of home violence within the presence of a kid, little one abuse with harm and felony mischief, Herriman police in Salt Lake County advised The New York Publish. She pleaded responsible in August 2023 to aggravated assault, per the outlet, whereas the opposite 4 costs have been dismissed with prejudice, reaching a plea deal the next month.

Regardless of the incident, Taylor, who stated she started “therapeutic” and taking “antidepressants” after the arrest, and Mortensen returned to social media in March 2023 with a number of loved-up posts and have been collectively ever since.

Taylor advised Us she hopes followers can see her true colours and character on The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.

“I’m just about recognized from my headlines of ‘Swinger Mother.’ I imply, the arrest, sadly, was one other huge all around the web. And so I’d say these issues are fairly destructive — clearly the [arrest] however the swinger one was additionally not an excellent factor I need to be recognized for the remainder of my life,” she stated. “So, for the present, I actually needed them to see me and extra of me and my character and a deeper degree. I really feel like I come off so completely different on-line than I truly am in a dialog. So I felt like this was my likelihood to inform my story and get a deeper look into who I’m.”

The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives premiered through Hulu on Friday, September 6.

Reporting by Christina Garibaldi