Settling into a brand new regular was no straightforward feat for Braunwyn Windham-Burke, her girlfriend, Jennifer Spinner, and her soon-to-be ex-husband, Sean Burke — however they’re making it work.

The trio convenes on digicam for the primary time in an unique joint interview with Web page Six, breaking down their uncommon dynamic and their dedication to co-parenting seven kids.

“Clearly, it’s uncomfortable and awkward, however we do spend time collectively,” Braunwyn, 45, tells us from her Newport Seashore, Calif., home, nestled subsequent to Spinner, 38, on a large L-shaped sectional with Sean sitting close by. 

“They get alongside fairly effectively,” the “Actual Housewives of Orange County” alum continues, admiring the friendship her estranged partner and present associate have constructed. 

Nevertheless, she provides, “Issues between [Sean and I] haven’t been nice.”

Braunwyn — who got here out as a lesbian in December 2020 — lastly filed for divorce from Sean final October, opening the door for them to argue over every thing from funds and future custody preparations to cleansing habits. 

“Braunwyn’s excessively OCD,” Sean claims. “I can clear this home for hours … I’ve been doing it for all the day earlier than she will get again as a result of I do know her stage of [cleanliness] is insane, like Q-tip-in-the-corner type of insane.”

The businessman elaborates, “After which she will get again and simply blows up at me for 2 hours. ‘All the pieces is destroyed!’ There might be, like, one piece of clothes left on the chair.”

In moments reminiscent of these, Sean is grateful to have assist from Spinner, who helps him “stability logic over craziness” amid chaos, he says. 

“I like Sean,” presents Spinner, who started courting Braunwyn in the summertime of 2022. “We strategy issues very equally and I discover him very straightforward to problem-solve with. Like, if something comes up, we are able to simply sort out it.”

Sean boasts that he and Spinner are “fairly grounded,” whereas referring to Braunwyn as a “volcano.” 

In the meantime, Braunwyn solely feels able to erupt when chagrined by this alliance, she tells Web page Six. 

“They tend the place the 2 of them gang up on me and I hate it,” the blonde magnificence admits earlier than addressing Spinner instantly, “As a result of he places me down quite a bit and you then’re like, ‘Yeah.’ And I’m like, ‘No, you possibly can’t do this.’ I hate it.”

This evaluation compels Spinner to reply. “Nicely, I feel it’s not ganging up,” the nonprofit exec says. “I feel it’s simply two folks of the identical strategy making an attempt to teach somebody.”

As a baby of divorce herself, Spinner feels outfitted to supply emotional assist to Braunwyn, Sean and their expansive brood in instances of dissension. 

“My dad and mom are divorced and I do know what it’s wish to be slightly child when your dad and mom are within the midst of determining what a divorce going to appear to be,” she says, taking a beat to applaud the dad and mom for all the time placing their kids first. 

“They’re all the time centered on the youngsters, that’s their No. 1. That’s what they share,” Spinner notes. “But it surely’s very easy within the warmth of a second to have a dialog and never notice that the youngsters are essentially absorbing all of that.”

When tensions flare, she is comfortable to mediate or play “referee,” as a number of members of the Burke clan have described her. 

Though Spinner advocates for everybody — particularly the exes kids, Bella, 22, Rowan, 20, Jacob, 17, twins Caden and Curren, 9, Koa, 8, and Hazel, 5 — she clarifies that she is “Workforce Braunwyn,” even when it doesn’t appear apparent. 

“I like her to loss of life, I’ll all the time defend her and take her facet,” she says. 

“[But] I can see when she’s making a dynamic that isn’t truthful or giving Sean the house that he wants to truly have a dialog and she or he lets me lower her off and be like, ‘We’re not doing this proper now.’”

Braunwyn confesses that she does “hearken to” Spinner, whom she respects for contemplating her kids when conciliating battle. 

“You place the youngsters first. It doesn’t matter what, you’re all the time on the youngsters’ [side],” she tells Spinner, visibly emotional. “You say you’re on my facet, however you’re all the time on the youngsters’ facet first. And I like that about you.”

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Though Spinner helps Braunwyn and Sean preserve peace at dwelling, she has no authorized pull because the pair fleshes out a custody settlement in court docket. 

“I need joint authorized, however [sole] bodily custody of the youngsters as a result of I need them to be in Tennessee,” says Braunwyn, who’s gearing up for an April transfer to Franklin, Tenn., together with her youngest kids and Spinner. 

The plan is for Sean to remain on the new dwelling when the ladies are away, a type of “nesting” the household has develop into accustomed to since Braunwyn determined to separate. 

“I need them throughout the faculty days … getting them to high school on time, homework, after-school actions. I need that as a result of I’m good at it,” she says. “I’ve been a stay-at-home mother for 22 years So I really excel at that a part of parenting.”

In the meantime, she desires Sean to be there for the “weekends and journeys and no matter” as a result of “he’s a extremely enjoyable, nice” dad.

“I need him to have the ability to do what he does greatest, which is cook dinner pancakes and have a good time,” she tells us. “After which I can do what I do greatest, which is the scheduling, the remembering, the permission slips and docs appointments.” 

Spinner — who exchanged vows with Braunwyn in a “pretend” Las Vegas wedding ceremony on Valentine’s Day — then chimes in to defend Sean, “Let’s not reduce Sean’s parenting.”

He then shares his personal tackle the matter, asserting he has “had a a lot stronger function within the youngsters’ lives than” Braunwyn provides him credit score for. 

“I see them just about each day, even when Braunwyn’s on the town. Which I like. I like being with them. There’s no complaints there, however I’m there quite a bit,” he says. “And I all the time have been.”

Sean feels that he took on much more accountability all through Braunwyn’s many pregnancies and her earlier habit struggles. (She has been sober for greater than three years.)

“[That] has made me be in a task of being a big mother or father for a very long time,” he says, justifying his want for joint bodily custody.

Once more, Spinner tries to revive concord. 

“I feel you each complement one another … I feel you guys will get to a spot the place will probably be joint. I feel you’re each nice and may have equal time with the youngsters,” she says. “But it surely’s not my choice.”

No matter how issues shake out, Braunwyn and Sean’s youngsters can respect all of the love of their lives. 

“It’s like three adults which can be loopy about them,” Spinner notes. “In order that they’re getting love from three locations and a focus from three locations — and sweet from three locations.”