‘Sister Wives’ Recap: Janelle Brown’s FED UP With Kody’s Manipulation

‘Sister Wives’ Recap: Janelle Brown’s FED UP With Kody’s Manipulation

Sunday night’s episode of Sister Wives began with a status on Christine Brown and Kody Brown’s marriage breakdown, she previously told him she wanted out of their spiritual nuptials and was moving to Utah. 

“I don’t wear our wedding rings. I just feel like they’re a noose,” Christine tells the camera, holding up her bare fingers.

The couple’s 27th wedding anniversary is approaching and Christine has decided not to acknowledge the milestone on social media, this lets Kody know she’s serious about divorcing.

“I asked her if we wanted to post anything on social media, in a little way as a test, you know, to protect our kids,” Kody says. “She says no. That’s the first time I’ve ever actually been able to go, ‘OK, wow, she’s serious about this.’ I think I want to keep testing it though. You never know when she’s going to realize that the life she’s looking to create somewhere else isn’t going to be any better than what she’s had or got.”

Christine Brown says they’re not legally married and questions when the marriage ended due to it being a spiritual marriage. In her mind, the relationship ended when Kody decided to end intimacy in their marriage.

“Sex has been something that’s been missing, for sure,” she shares. “But the intimacy of the marriage, it just wasn’t there.”

Shockingly, Kody actually admitted his role in the demise of the marriage and shared what he would have done differently. 

“Intimacy needs trust. Attraction, in my world, needs trust. And I thought she was being mean. I was angry. I was like, ‘God, man, you’re unwinding plural marriage for me. You’re undermining my whole life, my whole purpose.’ And I said, ‘No, we’re not having intimacy until you get this straight!'” Kody recalls. “And I wish I would have not even been that angry, but I wish I would have said, ‘Well, we’ve got to work on some things.'”

Next, Kody and his wives get on a Zoom call to discuss his school-aged children and school as restrictions have lifted locally and kids are now allowed to go back to school in person.

“If that’s important to her, then I would do it,” Kody says of Ysabel’s decision to return to in-person school. “Here’s the thing, everyone can do what they want, but I can’t be exposed to people. I can’t be going from house to house all the time.”

Christine and Janelle Brown are not in agreement with Kody and voice their disapproval.

“I’m feeling really bad for Yssie, having to choose between her dad and her friends,” Janelle shares in an aside interview. “It frustrates me that Kody is making it so much like, ‘If you go to school, I can’t see you.’ Because I think that’s ridiculous.”

Janelle presses the issue with Kody, “I’m wondering, Kody, at what point are you feeling like you can have a normal life again? I mean, at what point is the infection rate going up? At what point is that point?”

Kody shrugs in response, adding, “I’m worried about getting it and spreading it to someone else. I’m not worried about getting it, even though I have health goals I want to focus on and stuff like that.”

Naturally, Robyn sides with Kody, saying in a talking head confessional, “In my head, Kody’s relationship with his kids is more important than anything else. I understand Ysabel’s desire to return to school, but I’m also really concerned about this. It’s something that I just find really, really stupid.” 

Janelle admits she’s “crossing a line” by challenging the issue, but adds, “This just frustrates me so much that I can’t keep my mouth shut.” 

Kody then inquires if Christine daughters have gotten tested so he can come over and visit them before school resumes in person, and she says she doesn’t know. 

“They’re not going to get tested every single day, hoping and thinking that he’s going to come over,” Christine says in a talking head confessional.

Then Janelle suggest Kody visit his daughters outside in the backyard and distanced, which he reluctantly agrees to. 

“Well, I can do that, but that’s been a real inconvenience so far,” he says. “It’s still not that warm all the time. But yeah, I’m doing that and I’m willing to do that. But I need her to make her own choice and not have to worry about anybody else reacting to that choice.” 

He goes on to claim that his “smaller children” need him more, saying, “Teenage kids don’t need parents quite like preteens do.”

All of the wives seem to take issue with this, including Robyn.

“I don’t want to criticize Kody but I disagree,” she says. “I think that kids need their parents for the rest of their lives. And I know for a fact that some of our older kids, they need their dad.”   

Despite labeling Robyn Kody’s “favorite wife,” Christine and Robyn come together for Mykelti’s home birth of her first child. 

Robyn couldn’t attend due to Kody’s COVID restrictions but she did Zoom in for more than 24 hours of labor. Mykelti explained that she didn’t want her dad present for the birth due to how exposed she had to be throughout the process. 

Things took a dangerous turn when the baby’s heartbeat dropped and the midwife realized the cord was wrapped around the baby. 

“That cord was wrapped around Avalon three or four times,” A tearful Christine recounts. 

The baby was delivered safely, and everyone was overjoyed. 

“It’s really one of the most humbling things in this life, to watch your kids become parents,” she says. “It’s so instantaneous and that baby’s going to have the best parents.”

Halfway through the episode, Meri Brown rushed to be by her dying mother’s side at a hospital five hours away. Her mother, Bonnie, had been in the hospital for two days and they realized she was having an extended heart attack. 

“It’s not something I’m ready for,” Meri tearfully says. “She’s only 76.”

Sadly, Meri’s mother passed while she was enroute to the hospital.  

Sister Wives airs Sundays, at 10 p.m. ET, on TLC.  

 

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