Kody Brown is unsure of how the polygamous lifestyle of his family will fare in the future.
Kody openly admitted on this week’s episode of Sister Wives that he is having a hard time adjusting to life after his divorce. His third wife, Christine Brown, announced her separation from Kody to his other sister wives Meri Brown, Janelle Brown, and Robyn Brown in the previous episode. After 25 years of marriage, she publicly announced the breakup in November 2021.
Kody, 53, admitted in a confessional that “my life is in a kind of limbo because Christine’s leaving, and I don’t know what that looks like.”
He continued, “I’ve sort of been in the fury phase of divorce, so I haven’t been handling it very effectively. “I suppose working on this construction project with Janelle and Pete [on the family’s Coyote Pass property] [is] sort of one of those things to take my mind off the divorce’s aggravation. But buddy, I’m in the angry stage right now, and every so often, I just get all worked up over Christine leaving.”
It “didn’t need to be spoken” that Meri Brown was upset when her husband Kody suggested she move into a bed and breakfast.
Only legally is Kody wed to 43-year-old Robyn. Even though Kody’s relationship with Meri, 51, has evolved into a more platonic one over time, he has maintained that he is spiritually married to his other wives.
Already, the Brown family is in disarray as a result of Christine’s separation from the polygamous union. Later on in the show, the majority of the group still gathered together to support Christine’s daughter Ysabel at her graduation party. Christine had not spoken to any of the spouses since telling them of her separation from Kody two weeks before to the incident.
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Given that Christine intends to return to Utah, she claims that the celebration “may be one of the last occasions we get together.” Robyn acknowledged that she was “a little bit hesitant” to attend the event, given the circumstances, for concern that the family might find it difficult to “be normal and natural and comfortable” among one another.
Fortunately, everyone had a good time at Ysabel’s graduation party, especially the kids. Kody acknowledged that he is still enveloped in a “cloud of melancholy,” but said that this is “because of the complexity of a breakup.”
He confessed, “I don’t know where this is going to end up.” “I have no idea what else will happen.”
Kody acknowledged that he had “strained connections” with several of his children and that he is “not in a good place” with many of them as well. He claimed that while he is not “trying to be upset or hold them liable” for the state of affairs, he does not feel as though he is receiving the “respect” he feels he is entitled to from his children.
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He replied, “No, I’m not alright. “I’m feeling down. It’s kind of this hatred toward the entire family mixed with a sense of loneliness.”
Kody then acknowledged that he is “living in a deluded world where I’m wishing Christine wouldn’t leave” and that he is wanting to “keep some quasi-family contact” with both his ex-wife and their daughter Ysabel, who is relocating to North Carolina after high school to attend college. She will reside with Maddie (Brown) Brush and Caleb Brush, the daughter of Janelle. The patriarch of the Brown family admitted he is currently “struggling with sort of a state of regret.”
It’s strange to be moving to the left, he continued. “I now have second thoughts about getting married in multiples. It has caused me to doubt my religious beliefs in particular. The message we tried to convey to the public about functional polygamy now appears so broken.”
The future of the family was a concern for Kody’s three surviving wives as well, and some of them went farther and questioned why Christine would leave in the first place.
“How is this incorrect? How is it that this doesn’t work for everyone?” During a confessional, Robyn said. “Why wouldn’t you fight for something like this? Why wouldn’t this be worth sticking around for?”
“Why can’t we cooperate to work on the things that need to be worked on? As Janelle confessed in a different confessional, “It feels like there are storms brewing in the family, we’re not doing justice to our family, and we’re not doing justice to Ariella and Solomon and Truley, these tiny ones who really deserve to have the security of family,” Meri said to the cameras. I’m not sure what they’re trying to say or what will happen. Personally, I don’t think there will be many days like this [party] in the future.”
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