Sister Wives’ Kody Brown Requires ‘Patriarchy’ After Christine Break up

New regular? The Brown household is at a crossroads after Christine Brown lastly tells her sister wives about her cut up from Kody Brown.

“Right here’s the humorous factor in plural marriage: a spouse works with you or works towards you,” Kody, 53, stated throughout the Sunday, October 2, episode of Sister Wives.

The patriarch appeared to hit a wall after Christine, 50, selected to go away him and transfer to Utah. Whereas the previous couple introduced their cut up through Instagram in November 2021 after greater than 25 years collectively, it wasn’t till Sunday’s episode of the TLC sequence that followers noticed how Christine advised Meri Brown, Janelle Brown and Robyn Brown.

Forward of the extreme group dialog, Kody advised the cameras that he’s had ups and downs with all of his spouses through the years.

“Janelle and I might be teammates generally and wouldn’t be generally. Christine was often pretty compliant then we determined we didn’t need to transfer to Utah when Christine wished to maneuver to Utah. It’s like, ‘Effectively, I’m going to Utah.’ Christine grew to become all of a sudden very impartial,” he confessed.

The Wyoming native famous that he “all the time thought Meri was working with me pretty nicely” and that Robyn, 43, had the “aim” from day one to “turn out to be a part of this household and work along with our household.”

Kody confessed: “I bought a sense by means of this expertise that every spouse has a breaking level the place they’re simply not going to place up with what the opposite wives’ wants are anymore. They’re going to do their very own factor.”

When Christine did inform the household that she was leaving Kody and Arizona, there have been combined reactions. Kody, for his half, bought pissed off when he realized that he would barely see the pair’s youngest daughter, Truely, after the transfer.

“I’ve by no means understood her want to maneuver. I don’t perceive it in any respect except there’s some man she desires up to now there,” he stated in a confessional. “Or she desires to get away from me so my stink isn’t on her so she will be able to date. I believe the truth that I used to be unfold so skinny … plural marriage simply hasn’t labored for her in lots of, a few years.”

As soon as Christine confirmed that this was the “best option” for her and her youngsters — she and Kody share son Paedon, 23, and daughters Aspyn, 27, Mykelti, 26, Gwendlyn, 20, Ysabel, 19, and Truely, 12 — Kody once more turned the dialog to concentrate on himself.

He revealed that he was accomplished sitting again and letting issues go incorrect throughout the household. Kody known as for the remainder of the wives to “conform to patriarchy once more,” saying that he felt bitter as a result of the household hasn’t turned out like he “designed.”

The Brown household chief concluded: “I’m upset in how I’ve managed this. I felt like your whole independence was extra vital [and] in that [thought process] we kind of loss some kind of group. I assume I’m simply sorry we failed.”

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

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