Sister Wives star Christine Brown has ended her marriage to Kody Brown, but members of their polygamous family continue to struggle with the new family dynamic–- namely Kody’s fourth (and arguably favorite) wife, Robyn.
In a clip from Sunday’s episode shared by ET, Robyn sits down with Kody’s first wife Meri–- who was rejected by Kody years ago– to talk about Christine and Kody ending their relationship and how it will impact the family.
Robyn and Meri also discuss why Meri continues to stay in her loveless marriage to Kody, and how Christine leaving is “destroying” Robyn’s perfect polygamous family.
“I had other choices,” Robyn says, hinting that she chose to marry Kody because he was part of a big family. “This is what I wanted. I just have to watch as they destroy what I’ve wanted. I just can’t let it go.
“I just don’t want to admit or even accept the idea that it’s just, whatever we had as a family, is gone,” Robyn says to Meri in the clip.
Viewers then get to hear Christine’s response, as she firmly tells the camera, “They don’t have a choice.”
Kody and Christine’s failed relationship also resonates with Meri, who says the couple’s split felt “so familiar.”
(As ‘Sister Wives’ fans know, Kody and Meri have not had an actual “marriage” in more than a decade, and Kody has vowed that he will never treat their union as an actual marriage again. Still, though, Meri continues to hope that he will change his mind.)
“ … I’ve seen Kody give up on me and him,” she says.
Viewers then see Kody tell the camera that he didn’t give up on Meri, rather their relationship “was essentially unstable,” untenable and not “functional.”
“We can get along, but we can’t be together,” he adds.
Meri tells Robyn she’s often asked why she chooses to stay, given that she no longer has a relationship with Kody, explaining that she thinks, prays and meditates on the situation and always comes “to peace with it.”
Robyn tells Meri she’s glad she’s chosen to “stick it out,” later telling the camera that Meri “belongs with us.”
“Hang on with me, okay,” Robyn says to Meri. “We have to rebuild. We have to rebuild. All right? Just hang on with me, okay?”
Though Meri agrees to “hang on” with Robyn, Robyn makes it clear that she’s disappointed Christine didn’t choose to do the same.
“I really wanted to live plural marriage and give that big picture, a full family, to my kids,” Robyn tells the camera. “[My younger kids] aren’t even going to experience [plural marriage]. I want that for my kids but I also want it for me, too.
New episodes of ‘Sister Wives’ air Sundays on TLC.
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Kody wasn’t giving Meri what she needed before so she turned elsewhere but now she’s not? I call bullcaacaa. Don’t tell me she’s not getting a little something outside of her… oh wait they are divorced.
KODY ACTUALLY TOLD HER “please go, love elsewhere and get another man???”
Robyn is a selfish twat. Why would her kid get to experience the same life? Those kids are all grown up- it’s not gonna be the same regardless dear. Sorry, should have chosen a younger family. Oh there was none getting on tv? Yeah, tough break…
Wasn’t she actually making plans to meet up with her new “romantic” interest just before it came out as catfishing?
These two plus Kody are just. Insanity. There’s a whole book of examples here for what not to do for a family and marriage
Robyn has a lot to say she has kody where she wants him besides she admitted that she wanted a husband for her and a father for her kids at least she was honest
Robyn’s eyebrows look like worn out toothbrushes.
Oh sobbin’ you’ll be riding the pity party express by yourself. STFU!
This episode will be tough to get through. She’s so annoying and fake. It would be fun if Kody got a new young and skinny wife just to test her acting skills and see how much she really loves polygamy.
That’s what I’m waiting to see. Then her kids will get to “experience” polygamy and she’ll get to experience NOT being the new favored favorite wife.
Her kids will get to take care of all the new wives’ young children
Bullsh*t, Sobyn! You got what you wanted, a ramen-headed, tantrum throwing a**hole, all to yourself. I’d say congratulations, but your prize is a childish dildo.
Oh, and let’s not forget YOU got a million dollar home to house your snotnose kids. Snobyn, YOU SUCK!
Nah Robyn, you were a divorced single mother of 3 in a fanatic cult-like religion, what other choices did you have?
And clearly: you gonna regret those eyebrows one day
LMAO! ?
Oh, my gosh! I’ve been waiting for somebody to bring up the subject of those eyebrows. And is it just me, or does Robin always look like she’s going to throw up? And why is it her business what Christine wants to do. Also, what the hell was spying on Janelle?
A single mom with kids and a bunch of Victoria’s Secret credit card debt. I’m sure the men were lining up!
Yes because CLEARLY it’s the neglected and disrespected women leaving who DESTROY things, oh yes of course. Silly me.
Omg!!!!
ROBYN is divorced. She is such a hypocrite!! I wonder would she have stuck it out “for the family” if that marriage was a plural marriage!
How hard is it for Robyn to squeeze out those fake tears
Hahaha this woman. You wanted Kody to yourself and you’re getting exactly what you want. Let’s not play the victim.
Ok eyebrow.
You wanted him. You got him. ALL of him. I’m sorry that your plan to marry into a family that would
1. absorb the financial burden of you and your kids
2. came with a built-in babysitter, cook, and housekeeper
3. and a man you only had to tolerate for 24 hours every 4 days
did not work out for you.
Ahaha you said exactly what I was thinking while reading this post!!! Nice try Robyn! Guess the nanny isn’t enough. – you need a cleaning lady and a cook as well, Robyn.
What does the nanny do? Or is it who does the nanny do??? Stay tuned…
Robin and Kody are so much alike. Me me me me me me me me me me me me me me I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I
please this is what she wanted kody all to herself but now she realizes what a tool he is and doesn’t want him be careful what you wish for sobyn
I couldn’t read this without laughing…
Robin is such a weirdo!
I know right, it’s like summer down the dramatics lady. People are allowed to walk away from unhappy situations and not considering how it makes YOU feel.
Also her big kids seem like brats so, I am sure the younger ones will too!
Why does Christine have to be miserable for Robyn to get what she wants? Wow, selfish much? Christine is, at the moment, the ONLY parent providing a good example to her kids of knowing your value by kicking Kovid to the curb (or the gutter, where he belongs). I really, really hope Janelle is taking notes.
Kovid!! ??
I accidentally down voted with my fat fingers! I LOVE this message lol
The one that destroyed it and is on his way to his two other marriages is your husband dear and you played your part too. You could have send him to her and the other wives (and not let him come back until his day with her and the kids was over).
You wanted sister wives, do the work as you said people in plural marriage have to do.
I love that Christine has found her worth and he strength. It’s about time that someone knocked Grody Kody and Sobbin Robchin down off their high horses. Meri is just a pathetic asshole. I can’t wait for Janelle to leave this shit family. I’m not convinced she hasn’t already left but can’t say so due to show contracts. He is missing from her IG. And at Logan’s wedding Kodi and Robyn sat on opposite sides , away from the rest of the family
“My younger kids won’t experience plural marriage”
… um.. there’s 2 other wives besides you still?? Kody wasn’t staying anywhere else except her place anyways?♀️?♀️.
The believe the biggest reason for wanting Christine to stay is because of her status within the AUB. Isn’t it only 3 wives to make the highest kingdom?? Kody wouldn’t be this angry if it was Meri or Janelle leaving…
Yes , they need 3 wives for the highest kingdom. Robyn only wants Christine to stay so that she can remain HBIC. Now Kody will have to take another wife to keep his celestial status. Robyn is scared she will be traded in for a newer model. Also , sidenote : the bigger her eyebrows get , the crazier she becomes.
Hey dumb dumb Sobyn…..its still plural marriage. You have Meri and Janelle (for now.)