At this point, Sister Wives star Robyn Brown is hopeful that she’s put the worst months of her and Kody Brown‘s marriage behind her.
But for awhile there, the mom of five admitted on the April 20 episode of the TLC reality series, “He was hard, you know, and I had to sit there and explain this to him, that, ‘You were a moody butthole.'”
For the family patriarch, much of the angst came from the fact that his love was being divided as third wife Christine Brown announced their split in November 2021 and spouses Janelle Brown and Meri Brown followed her out the door soon after.
“It goes through your mind once in a while, ‘Hey, do these divorces devalue me to her? I’ve been left. Do you still want me the same way?'” Kody explained of his relationship with Robyn, the divorcée he wed in 2010. “As they left, they stole some of my confidence and I just, I’m vulnerable and I’m a fool.”
A fool in love, it would seem, with the father of 18 and his sole remaining wife dancing around the use of the word soulmate.
Having tossed out the term before when he was still wed to his three other wives, “I realized how wrong it was,” admitted Robyn. “And so I think maybe it’s probably okay if you’re my soulmate, but not okay if I’m yours.”
“Kody and I have done a lot of work to make sure our relationship survived all the splits,” Robyn explained during the April 20 episode. “Kody got into his head that my issues with him were because he didn’t have other wives.”
And while, yes, living plural marriage was always the goal, “The splits didn’t make him less valuable to me,” she insisted. “That’s not how I feel at all.”
She really just wanted the Arizona resident to be a little nicer.
“What I struggled with was how he was treating me,” she stressed, “and how he was acting.”
And now that he’s lightened up, “I feel like Kody’s coming out of it,” she added. “I’m just proud of us for suviving it.”
As for heading once more into the breach of polygamy, “I don’t know if I would live it again,” admitted Robyn. “I’d have to have a guarantee I feel like, like things would go well and that I could have a relationship with whoever else Kody married.”
Though at this point, Kody isn’t looking to entangle himself with any other brides.
“Polygamy kills emotional intimacy,” he opined on the series’ Dec. 1 episode. “It makes everybody defensive, and I really want an emotionally vulnerable, intimate relationship with a woman, and you’re not going to get that in polygamy.”
And that’s just one confession he and his wives have dropped during the current season. Keep reading to see the other truths that they’ve shared.
Meri Says Kody Gave Her Hope for Their Marriage
Kody Brown insisted he was ready to divide himself from first wife Meri Brown shortly after their 1990 vows. But “he led me to believe that he would work on things by saying, ‘Oh Meri, when we move to Flagstaff, this will be a good time to have a new beginning for us,'” Meri shared in the Sept.
15 premiere, referencing their 2018 move. “Like he led me to believe those things. This is what he’s done for many, many years.”
Her main gripe, she shared, is “his lack of communication and how he really felt and what he really wanted or what he really didn’t want and the story that he’s been telling for all these years.”
And while Kody acknowledged that there may have been “mixed messages,” it was only because as he started to work on things, “I’m like, ‘Why would I do this?'” he explained. “I would not court and date her now.”
Either way, Meri’s friends were thrilled when she finally pulled the plug in early 2023.
“They’re like, ‘OK, we’re here for you, we’re supporting you. And it’s about damn time,'” she confessed. Blinders off, she now feels that he had been trying to get her to walk away for years by insisting he didn’t love her, “Because if he can push me out and I leave, he’s not the bad guy because he didn’t walk away.”
Kody Wanted to Sell Coyote Pass
Years after the family purchased the 14-acre plot of land they planned to build on in Flagstaff, Ariz., Kody confessed in the season premiere that he was ready to let the dream wither. Unable to build without paying off the full $820,000 price tag (which the family reportedly did in 2023), he told remaining wife Robyn Brown, “I’d almost rather scrap it or sell it and then just start again somewhere else.”
As for Robyn, “I can’t talk about that,” she responded. “That is so not where I’m at.”
