‘Sister Wives’ Recap: Meri Brown SLAMS Christine For Dumping Kody & Breaking Up Plural Marriage!

‘Sister Wives’ Recap: Meri Brown SLAMS Christine For Dumping Kody & Breaking Up Plural Marriage!

Sunday night’s episode of Sister Wives centers around Christine Brown and Kody Brown revealing to the other wives, the end of  their 26 years of marriage, and Christine’s impending move to Utah.

“I wanted to tell them a while ago but it just hasn’t worked out. I’m nervous, I’m ok, I’m sad, gosh, really sad,” Christine says in a talking head confessional.

Janelle Brown has decided to start building her home on the family’s land parcel, Coyote Pass, and gathers the family to discuss her plans.

Christine used this opportunity to inform her sister wives that she no longer needs her portion of the land. 

“They need to know that I have no intention of living on the property and I don’t want my piece of property, I just don’t. I’m not gonna live out there. I don’t see the point in having a piece of property. It’s additional stress that I don’t have to have in my life,” she says.

Kody, Meri Brown, Janelle and Robyn Brown all gather at Christine’s home so she can finally reveal the shocking news. This scene is filmed on their cell phones to keep it private from the TLC crew.

Christine starts the discussion and gets straight to the point — she’s leaving.

“It’s a hard decision. I need to make a choice for happiness. I need to make a choice to have joy in my life and peace and there hasn’t been a lot of hope at all until I decided to leave. I feel strongly this is the best choice for me,” Christine shares.

Everyone is stunned into silence then Robyn speaks up first.

“I knew you packed his stuff up, I knew that. But I didn’t know how final it was or if it was just a break or something,” Robyn tells Christine, who confirms, “It’s final.”

In a talking head confessional, Robyn admits to being shocked by the news, “It’s not really computing … I don’t know what to say.” Meri is also speechless and says she’s “processing.” Janelle, whose closes to Christine, was aware of the breakup but asserts it’s still difficult.

“It’s hard to know something and then to have it actually happen,” she says.

Christine then offers to rent her house to Janelle, who needs somewhere to live while she builds a home on Coyote Pass, and Kody butts in.

“Christine, you felt like you had to have this discussion with your sister wives because of Janelle’s need to move?” he asks.

Christine explains that was certainly the final push for her, but says she’s been waiting for the “perfect timing.”

Kody thinks there may be another man motivating Christine’s decision to move to Utah.

“I don’t understand it at all, unless there’s some guy she wants to date there or she wants to get away from me so that my stink isn’t on her so she can date,” he says in a talking head confessional.

Janelle’s primary concern is how Kody and Christine’s split will impact the 18 shared siblings in the family.

“The kids are the hardest part, of course, but it’s like the relationship that the kids have with each other, that will still be great. I think that this is still family, it’s just going to look different,” Christine explains.

However, Meri Brown, disagrees with Christine’s decision and slams her, “black-and-white”  thinking. “If women are not married to the same man, you’re not a sister wife anymore. I really, at this point, have no idea what this all means.”

Meri goes on to express her anger over Christine quitting the family. 

“Each one of us made a commitment to each other, like to all of us, that we would love each other, that we would respect each other, that we would stick through it thick and thin and we would work these things out,” Meri says.

Janelle can’t imagine the family picture without Christine. 

“Christine is front and center in all my memories,” Janelle says in a confessional, adding that Christine used to watch her children for her when she’d go to work years ago. “To me, it’s almost like Christine’s as big a part of my world as Kody is.”

Robyn asks Christine if she and Kody are really sure about their decision. 

“I’ve been through a divorce. I know what this means. We’re not just talking about three kids and a husband and wife. We’re talking about 18 kids, spouses, grandbabies and five of us that are all connected and committed to each other and technically married. Do you even understand what you’re saying?” she ponders.

Janelle inquires how Kody and Christine’s 12-year-old daughter, Truely, will be impacted by the separation of her parents and move to Utah. Kody is triggered by this and chimes in.

“Oh no, you can’t take her from me because we’ll have to have a shared custody. It’ll have to be 50/50,” he says. In response, Christine claims that she and Kody have already discussed her moving, but he says he never fully gave her the go ahead.

Robyn asks Christine if she still believes in polygamy.

“I believe it works for people who want it to work for them. I believe if people have a testimony of it, they should live it,” she responded, also making it very clear that the lifestyle no longer works for her.

Kody wraps the discussion by putting his foot with a stern message to his remaining wives. 

“I’m going to be the head of my household again, and I’m not going to be circumvented in that. If everybody’s willing to conform to patriarchy again … ’cause I’ve been fighting to make everybody happy,” he says.

“My bitterness is out of trying to do that and not having the family that I had thought about and designed.”

Janelle seems to disagree with Kody’s rules — in a talking head confessional she says, “Yeah, I didn’t know I’d signed up for patriarchy but that’s not what we all agreed on in the very beginning.”

Kody goes on to claim his position as patriarch of the tribe.

“And if it’s too awkward, or if I don’t feel like I’m the head of my household when people are around, then I’m not gonna have the whole family together,” he says. “I’m at a point now in my life where I don’t have time to waste on people who won’t respect me or treat me with respect so we’ll see how that goes.”

Kody say he’s “disappointed” in the way he’s managed the family recently and says he should’ve “taken the reins” back long ago.

“But I felt like all of your independence was more important and so in that, we sort of lost some form of unity,” he explains.

The episode ends with Kody admitting, “I’m just sorry we failed.”

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

 

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