The harsh actuality. Sister Wives’ Kody Brown’s battle to just accept his break up from Christine Brown has left him with a foul style in his mouth — and resentment for his complete household.
“Christine and I have been on the fast track from separation to divorce now for a few months. The last time the family got together was when Christine told us she was leaving,” Kody, 53, mentioned throughout the Sunday, October 9, episode of the TLC collection. “I feel very separated from the family. I’ve struggled through this process.” (Christine, 50, introduced by way of Instagram in November 2021 that she and Kody break up after greater than 25 years.)
The Wyoming native revealed that he was additionally coping with Janelle Brown’s transfer from her home — which she may not lease — into an RV. Janelle, 53, deliberate to park the fifth-wheeler on the Coyote Pass property, which consists of 5 totally different tons.
“My life is in a form of limbo because Christine’s leaving and I don’t know what that looks like. I’ve been in the anger phase of divorce, so I’ve not been addressing it very well,” Kody defined. “I guess this construction project with Janelle and [contractor] Pete [is] kind of one of those things to get my mind off my divorce frustration. I am in the anger phase. I get tied up in knots over Christine leaving.”
Kody’s relationship along with his first spouse, Meri Brown, additionally hit one other roadblock throughout the Sunday episode after the patriarch advised Meri, 51, that it could be higher if she moved to Utah to run her mattress and breakfast. Meri’s mother, Bonnie, was operating the place earlier than her dying, which followers discovered about earlier this season.
“I was here are the very beginning. I helped start this family. It was me and him and we had plans. He loved me,” Meri mentioned throughout a confessional whereas holding again tears. “For him to just be like, ‘Um, just go up there now.’ It didn’t make sense.”
Kody, nonetheless, managed to press pause on all of the drama and be a part of Christine in celebrating their daughter Ysabel’s highschool commencement. While the social gathering — which additionally included Meri, Janelle and Robyn Brown and their respective youngsters — was successful, Kody left feeling “blue” about their future.
“We will never be there again. I’m living in a delusional world where I’m wishing Christine didn’t leave. I’m struggling with sort of a state of regret and frustration,” Kody advised the cameras. “It’s a weird thing to be getting left. It’s made me question getting into plural marriage. Question my faith. The message we had to the world about functional polygamy seems so dysfunctional now.”
The head of the Brown household additionally confessed that his relationships with a few of the different youngsters — not simply his children with Christine — had not too long ago hit a tough patch.
“I’ve got what feels like very strained relationships with a bunch of the kids. I don’t feel like I’ve got the respect that I should have,” he concluded. “No, I’m not OK. I’m here. I’m in a funk. It’s this loneliness combined with a bitterness with the entire family.”
Sister Wives airs on TLC Sundays at 10 p.m. ET.
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