Christine, Janelle Brown Go Off on Robyn

Christine and Janelle Brown shut down Robyn Brown’s declare that she “speaks Kody” one of the best on half 2 of Sister Wives: 1-on-1.

“I think I get Kody pretty well. Like, I feel like I understand him,” Robyn, 45, stated on the Sunday, December 3, episode of the Sister Wives season 18 tell-all, which is a part of the multi-episode reunion.

Robyn famous that she thinks Kody Brown’s three exes, Christine, 51, Janelle, 54, and Meri Brown, all “have the capacity” to “speak Kody,” as Meri, 52, put it on the present. “He could be misunderstood very easily because he says everything that’s in his head. Most people filter it. He doesn’t,” Robyn stated of her husband, 54. “But I think that it’s hard for other people to understand.”

Christine and Janelle, nevertheless, assume they perceive their former husband simply fantastic. (Christine and Kody break up in November 2021, whereas Janelle confirmed in December 2022 that she and Kody had been “separated for several months.”)

“Robyn says that she can speak Kody and I’m like, ‘Bulls–t,’” Christine stated in Sunday’s episode. “I have known Kody for … I met him when I was 18. I’ve known Kody for a long time, and I can actually read Kody pretty well. And I can speak Kody well, too.”

Christine, who shares six youngsters with the patriarch, claimed that Robyn “convinced all of us that she could speak Kody and that she would mediate our relationships.” She alleged that Robyn made all of the wives really feel like “she needed to be there in the relationship” as a result of “she can speak Kody and we can’t.”

Janelle revealed she felt the identical manner as Christine about Robyn being the Kody whisperer. “I’m like, ‘Well, I don’t know if I really need someone to translate for me. We’ve been married a long time. We did OK without you,’” Janelle confessed. “I think I speak Kody. But she likes to position herself as like, ‘I speak Kody.’”

Janelle additional claimed that Robyn has even pulled that line on her six youngsters. “That one does bug me. ‘I speak Kody.’ Well, Kody can speak for himself. He’s a grown ass man,” Janelle quipped.

Scroll right down to see extra of the largest revelations from half 2 of season 18’s Sister Wives: 1-on-1 particular:

Janelle Plays Coy About Her and Kody’s Sex Life

“There was definitely physical compatibility,” Janelle instructed host Sukanya Krishnan, noting that intercourse was a part of her reference to Kody. “I’m not someone who goes around blabbing about that. I’ll hint at it. Everything was very good in that department.”

Since the pair have parted methods, Janelle stated, “I don’t think he’s holding out hope, pining for me. He’s never really come to me and said look, ‘I really love you and I really want to make this work.’ Not, like, in that very deep, intimate connection way.”

Wives Claim They Had to ‘Earn’ Kody’s Love

Janelle mirrored on her relationship with Kody all through their practically 30-year union, claiming, “For him, it became about, ‘I needed to coparent. I needed to be less independent.’ I needed to do all these things in order to earn that relationship. And I’m like, ‘No, I don’t need to earn a relationship.’”

Christine recalled the same expertise with Kody earlier than their 2021 break up. “I always felt like I needed to do something to earn love or earn acceptance, or I had to do something a certain way and I didn’t even realize how much stress I was under,” she alleged. “Kody had really specific things that he liked. And when he came over, I’d want to [say], ‘Sure, let’s go ahead and cook the kind of dinner that you like or make sure the house is cleaned a certain way.’ I just wanted him to be comfortable in my home.”

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Meri, who confirmed her break up from Kody in January after greater than 30 years collectively, famous that her ex was specific about many issues. “He would ask me to do things and ask me to be a certain way or ask me to fix the situation or ask me to share some information with him or whatever, all these things to be able to fix our relationship,” she defined. “And I did every one of the things that he asked me to. And then it just wasn’t good enough. … You’re asking if loyalty was enough? And it wasn’t for him.”

Kody Says He Will ‘Always Love’ Meri

“I told her I loved her, and I chose to love her, and I chose to be romantic,” Kody stated of his union with Meri. “She thinks I was madly head over heels over and it was not that experience for me. But I was always a life affirming person. I would always affirm what I wanted. And so I told her and did everything I could to love her, and she thinks we were mad about each other, and we acted that [way]. We played that out.”

Kody famous that they did “have a very romantic experience” firstly of their marriage however acknowledged that “there was a lot of dysfunction” over time.

Elsewhere within the episode, he claimed, “I will always love her. I can’t be in love with her. It’s not safe for me. … Make up any bulls–t you want, but I’m telling you, I’m not going to sit here and drive the bus over her because this is sad. It’s heartbreaking. It just didn’t work.”

Ultimately, Kody confessed that something he says will likely be like “ripping that wound back open” for Meri, and he doesn’t need that. “It’s like I love her and want her to have a happy life, but I don’t think [she] and I can functionally be in a relationship of marriage,” he concluded.

Meri Shares the Full Wedding Ring Story

Us Weekly beforehand shared an unique sneak peek of Christine revealing that Kody melted down his 1990 wedding ceremony band from Meri shortly after Robyn joined the household in 2010. In the clip, Meri revealed she was “frustrated” that Christine instructed viewers such an intimate reminiscence with out permission.

During Sunday’s episode, Meri reluctantly detailed the complete story of what Kody instructed her when he determined to cease sporting his first wedding ceremony ring. “He didn’t think that it was fair that I had [a] claim on him. And so his way of [changing] that was to melt down [the ring],” she recalled. “The wedding ring that was a symbol … of, like, our marriage and our commitment. And he melted it down.”

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Meri bought choked up whereas recalling the heartbreaking act. “Who’s to say that he didn’t just melt down our whole relationship in that moment? Symbolically, that’s what he did to me,” she continued. “Because I remember asking him, ‘If you’re not going to wear it, can I just have it? Can I keep it?’ [He said], ‘Oh, no. I melted it down. I didn’t want you to have any claim on me.’ It was a very, very painful situation.”

Robyn, for her half, claimed that Kody melting his ring from Meri had nothing to do along with her becoming a member of the household. “No, he had done that before I came along OK. It wasn’t when I came in the family,” she insisted. “It was way before that because he wasn’t wearing a wedding ring when I met him.”

Kody’s third Ring

After Kody melted down his first wedding ceremony band, his then-wives gifted him a Claddagh ring. The Claddagh is a Celtic image of affection, loyalty and friendship and was meant to be an “heirloom” handed to their daughters, Janelle completely instructed Us in November, noting that each one the wives wore one as properly.

Throughout season 18, Meri seen that Kody was sporting one other new band, which she assumed was from Robyn. “It was way nicer and [I] went, ‘That’s cool, I want that,’” Kody stated on the tell-all, explaining how he discovered his present ring. “And my wedding ring was on and some things happened [in the family] and I went, ‘Those relationships are over.’ And I went like this [and took it off]. I’m done.”

Kody clarified that he made the selection to take off the Claddagh ring throughout his marital woes with Janelle in 2022, which viewers noticed play out this season. He and Meri have been additionally on the rocks on the time.

Part 3 of the Sister Wives: 1-on-1 particular airs on TLC Sunday, December 10, at 10 p.m. ET.