For literal years now, we’ve been speculating about Meri Brown’s relationship with the rest of her family.
And that’s because for literal years now, all of those relationships have been complete and total messes.
Seriously, it’s been six year…
So much for a Brown out.
Following many weeks’ worth of chatter and speculation over the future of Sister Wives — including the never-ending churn of a rumor mill that alleges one or more spouses may soon be leaving Kody — TLC came out on Tuesday…
Let’s stop and think about the premise of Sister Wives for a moment, shall we?
The TLC reality show centers on Kody Brown and his four spouses, all of whom interact frequently when cameras are rolling, talking about their complicated lives and rela…
Kody Brown was at it again this past weekend.
By which we mean the following:
The father of 18 was once again acting like a selfish jerk who doesn’t actually care about various members of his family.
We’re not really sure why this comes as surp…
Doesn’t it feel like the entire cast of Sister Wives has been absolutely miserable for eons at this point?
It just seems like endless suffering, season after season.
Things have gotten so bad that last season, we saw Kody, who was once so qui…
It’s come to this for Janelle Brown:
Due to the assumed poor state of her marriage… due to her recent downgrade in housing and the blame critics have leveled at the feet of Kody Brown…
… it’s now a major story when Janelle simply has dinner…
Throughout the last couple of seasons of Sister Wives, Kody Brown clashed with all his Sister Wives. This was blatantly obvious really.
At various points, Kody took issue with Meri, Christine, Robyn and Janelle – the four spouses he has taken to date.
He’s been upset because he wanted to build one big house on their land in Flagstaff, Arizona, and his idea was shot down, and he’s been mad about how some of his wives handled the pandemic.
He’s also not too fond about them, like, doing things or even proposing doing things that don’t benefit him explicitly.
Despite arguing with all four of his spouses over the course of these recent seasons, astute viewers could read between the lines.
They could tell who Kody loved, despite the occasional disagreement, and who he seemed truly sick and tired of at this point.
This got us thinking here at THG: Is there a clear favorite for Kody among the aforementioned better halves?
How would he rank Meri, Christine, Robyn and Janelle; from Kody’s most-hated to his most-loved? How would we?!
Your response to this loaded question may be different from ours, and his, but consider the rankings below.
You won’t believe this, but Kody Brown appears to once again have made a poor financial decision.
Oh, what’s that?
You do believe it?
Yeah. We shouldd have figured you would at this point.
According to The Sun, the Sister Wives lead owes …
Kody Brown attended his daughter’s high school graduation late last week.
And we know what many of you out there may be thinking:
Okay, great. Wonderful. What, exactly, is newsworthy about this decision/development?
Well… we’ll go ahead and t…
Throughout the last couple of seasons of Sister Wives, Kody Brown clashed with all his Sister Wives. This was blatantly obvious really.
At various points, Kody took issue with Meri, Christine, Robyn and Janelle – the four spouses he has taken to date.
He’s been upset because he wanted to build one big house on their land in Flagstaff and his idea was shot down, and he’s been mad about how some of his wives handled the pandemic.
He’s also not too fond about them doing things or even proposing doing things that don’t benefit him.
Despite arguing with all four of his spouses over the course of these recent seasons, astute viewers could read between the lines.
They could tell who Kody loved, despite the occasional disagreement, and who he seemed truly sick and tired of at this point.
This got us thinking here at THG: Is there a clear favorite for Kody among the aforementioned better halves?
How would he rank Meri, Christine, Robyn and Janelle; from Kody’s most-hated to his most-loved? How would we?!
Your response to this loaded question may be different from ours, and his, but consider the rankings below.
Sister Wives viewers have known for ages now that Kody Brown is an awful husband.
But they were reminded on this past Sunday’s season finale that he’s also an awful father.
Just in case you had any doubt, you know?
The reminder was served o…
It’s been evident for awhile now that nearly every immediate Brown family member wants to cancel its plural marriage.
Meri is outwardly unhappy and unloved… Christine just spent hours on air complaining about her situation… and even Kody has sa…
For a long time now, things with the Brown family have been … well, they haven’t been great.
They’ve actually been pretty horrific, judging by what we’ve seen on Sister Wives.
We’ve seen relationships change and deteriorate, we’ve seen family members be outright mean to each other.
It’s bad.
But this season has been especially interesting because a big theme of it all is Kody just entirely giving up on his family.
He truly seems to be over polygamy, and he’s said as much plenty of times in recent episodes.
He’s said that Janelle is “full of sh-t” and “lazy,” he’s said that he hasn’t felt a spark with Meri in the past several years.
In a sneak peek for this week’s episode, the season finale, he exclaimed that he was in “polygamy hell,” which seems quite dramatic.
And now, in another sneak peek for the finale, we’re seeing him with all of his sister wives, trying to work on their relationships.
But guess who doesn’t seem to care even the tiniest bit?
The clip, which you can watch in full below, begins with everyone gathered together while Janelle sets up a big ol’ easel so they can write things down.
Kody says that he doesn’t understand what they’re going to be talking about, and he asked in a sort of mocking way “Are we going to be talking about our feelings?”
“I’m coming into this whole conversation very cynical,” he admits during a confessional, “because I’m extremely discouraged that I can’t get my wives to all agree on one simple thing: preventing the spread of COVID in our family.”
“And so it’s pissing me off.”
This was all filmed early in the pandemic, and Christine was of the opinion that she’d already made plans for the coming months and she wasn’t going to cancel them while Janelle made it clear that she couldn’t stay quarantined all summer.
Still, Kody’s plan was that he’d be the only one to move between the four different households, which still wouldn’t be safe because he could still carry the virus from house to house.
Logic wasn’t really on anyone’s side here, obviously, so let’s just continue.
Back to the family meeting, we see Janelle writing something down on the easel — they seem to be taking turns writing down things that are important to them, and she writes that she “needs to make sure I’m heard.”
In her own confessional, she says “I think we’ve had communication problems for a long time,” and she goes on to explain that with the new stress the pandemic added to the family, that was made even more clear to her.
For Christine’s turn, she says “So I need to feel important at the end of a conversation, I feel like some of my ideas … I don’t feel like I’m important, I don’t even really have a say.”
“Everyone just assumes I’m just being a princess because I’m not expressing myself well,” she continues. “I’m not ever intending to be a princess, but I think I’m seen that way and it’s frustrating.”
Kody then tells her “I feel like everybody feels that same way, like it’s a fight constantly to like have an idea even heard, so …”
It really feels like he’s pouting here, so Robyn tries to hold his hand through this and ask him what he wants to write on the easel, what issue he wants to talk about when it comes to their communication.
“Nothing,” he answers, because of course that’s his answer.
“Yes you are,” Robyn chides him, “you have to play.”
He thinks for a minute then tells his wives “My problem is I don’t want to write anything down there because I don’t give a sh-t anymore.”
Absolutely charming, right?
We don’t get to see how the wives react to that beyond a few shocked expressions, but back in his confessional he tells the camera “You know, we’ve moved here, we’re going through the struggles, I’ve been arguing about COVID now for so long with these ladies …”
“That’s the reason I don’t care anymore,” he explains. “I don’t enjoy the relationship anymore because it feels like a constant fight.”‘
And that’s the end of the video.
At this point in the game, it’s pretty clear that no one is going to leave the family — they all believe so strongly in their marriages because of their religion, and it’s probably safe to say the perks of being on the show are an incentive to stay as well.
But it’s also clear that they’re all completely miserable with each other most of the time.
Is the show just going to be like this for the rest of its time on the air?
Are they just going to say worse and worse things to each other as they pretend like any of this is working?
Like, we’ll still watch, but man, are things looking bleak here.
What do you think about the current state of this family?
Kody Brown has kids, three grandkids and four spouses.
And he may not be done just yet.
On this Sunday’s new episode of Sister Wives, Kody and his youngest, most legal wife, Robyn, sit down and discuss the possibility of having more children.
Y…
Great news, Meri Brown!
You’re not the only spouse who is miserable in her marriage to Kody Brown!
For several weeks now, on new episodes of Sister Wives each Sunday night, viewers have witnessed the dissolution of Meri and Kody’s relationship.
…
If you’ve been keeping up with Sister Wives, then you know that a big source of the Brown family drama for the past couple of seasons has been about moving.
So. Much. Moving. Drama.
The family packed up and left what many considered to be an ideal situation in Las Vegas to move to Arizona all the way back in the summer of 2018, and since then, things just haven’t been great.
Instead of living in four houses all next to each other like they did in Las Vegas, the four wives are spread out across the city of Flagstaff.
They also own a large chunk of land out in the country that they just can’t seem to figure out what to do with.
We’ve seen quite a bit of feuding over the plots of land and over which wife gets which plot, but a big thing last season specifically was Kody’s desire to have the family all living under the same roof.
Fans will remember that this is how things were back when they lived in Utah in the first couple of seasons — Meri, Janelle, Christine and Kody lived in one big house divided into three apartments for years.
Kody envisioned everyone doing the same in Arizona, so much that he even designed a house that he thought would meet everyone’s needs.
But unfortunately for him, his wives couldn’t agree on it, and now he’s stuck going all over the city to spend time in each separate home.
Except as we’re seeing this season, the pandemic changed things up a bit.
And now, in a sneak peek for this week’s episode, it’s starting to sound like some of the Browns are reconsidering that whole “one big house” idea.
In the clip, which you can watch in full below, Robyn’s oldest daughter was turning 18, so this would have been filmed last April.
To celebrate, Christine brought her three youngest daughters over for a visit, but they stayed out in the yard while Kody, Robyn, and their children stood in the doorway.
Poor little Truely asked if she could come inside to play with her siblings, but Robyn told her that she couldn’t.
“It’s awful to hear,” Christine said later in a confessional. “She can’t, she still has to stay socially distanced, and she’s more frustrated than Gwendlyn and Ysabel because they get it, but Truely doesn’t get it.”
In her own confessional, Robyn said “The idea of living in one big home together during this right now, what would it be like?”
“I’m sitting here thinking ‘What are other plural families doing?'”
“There’s a part of me that’s like ‘There would be major benefits for us to be living in one home right now during this pandemic, we would just be hunkering down together and being careful together, and we’d have to come to an agreement about how to do it,'” she continued.
Janelle expanded on that in another separate talk to the cameras, saying “If we’d been in one house, then of course that would have just been a natural thing that we would have just been like a pod, a village, a little mini isolated village.”
It sounds like they’re sort of regretting their decision, right?
It would have made things a lot easier on the whole family if they were all living together — and Kody wouldn’t have had to throw that tantrum last week when Janelle tried to be responsible about social distancing.
But Christine was definitely the most outspoken against the idea of the one big house … is she feeling that regret too?
Back in her confessional, she said “I imagine if we were all together in one house … no. I can’t imagine it, I don’t want to imagine it. I’m just not gonna even imagine it.”
So that answers that question.
Going back to the scene at Robyn’s house, we see Ariella, Robyn and Kody’s youngest daughter, give Truely a stuffed animal, and Truely once again asked if she could go inside and play.
“Not yet, sweetheart,” Kody told her. “The only person that’s traveling from house to house is me. Sorry.”
But Truely, as Christine explained, doesn’t quite understand the concept of social distancing, although Robyn did tell her “Being apart from each other right now is the best way we can love each other.”
And there we have it.
Even though it really does sound like it would have been great for the whole family to have been under one roof going into the pandemic, obviously it didn’t happen, and it’s clear that it’s not going to happen anytime soon.
If a worldwide crisis like this can’t bring the family together, what can?
