Sister Wives’ Kody Brown Has ‘Bitterness’ Amid Christine Cut up

The tough actuality. Sister Wives’ Kody Brown’s battle to just accept his break up from Christine Brown has left him with a foul style in his mouth — and resentment for his entire household.

“Christine and I’ve been on the quick monitor from separation to divorce now for a couple of months. The final time the household obtained collectively was when Christine instructed us she was leaving,” Kody, 53, stated in the course of the Sunday, October 9, episode of the TLC collection. “I really feel very separated from the household. I’ve struggled by means of this course of.” (Christine, 50, introduced by way of Instagram in November 2021 that she and Kody break up after greater than 25 years.)

The Wyoming native revealed that he was additionally coping with Janelle Brown’s transfer from her home — which she may not lease — into an RV. Janelle, 53, deliberate to park the fifth-wheeler on the Coyote Go property, which consists of 5 completely different tons.

“My life is in a type of limbo as a result of Christine’s leaving and I don’t know what that appears like. I’ve been within the anger section of divorce, so I’ve not been addressing it very effectively,” Kody defined. “I suppose this development mission with Janelle and [contractor] Pete [is] sort of a kind of issues to get my thoughts off my divorce frustration. I’m within the anger section. I get tied up in knots over Christine leaving.”

Kody’s relationship along with his first spouse, Meri Brown, additionally hit one other roadblock in the course of the Sunday episode after the patriarch instructed Meri, 51, that it may be higher if she moved to Utah to run her mattress and breakfast. Meri’s mother, Bonnie, was working the place earlier than her dying, which followers discovered about earlier this season.

“I used to be listed below are the very starting. I helped begin this household. It was me and him and we had plans. He cherished me,” Meri stated throughout a confessional whereas holding again tears. “For him to only be like, ‘Um, simply go up there now.’ It didn’t make sense.”

Kody, nevertheless, managed to press pause on all of the drama and be a part of Christine in celebrating their daughter Ysabel’s highschool commencement. Whereas the get together — which additionally included Meri, Janelle and Robyn Brown and their respective kids — was successful, Kody left feeling “blue” about their future.

“We are going to by no means be there once more. I’m residing in a delusional world the place I’m wishing Christine didn’t depart. I’m combating form of a state of remorse and frustration,” Kody instructed the cameras. “It’s a bizarre factor to be getting left. It’s made me query entering into plural marriage. Query my religion. The message we needed to the world about practical polygamy appears so dysfunctional now.”

The top of the Brown household additionally confessed that his relationships with a number of the different kids — not simply his youngsters with Christine — had just lately hit a tough patch.

“I’ve obtained what appears like very strained relationships with a bunch of the children. I don’t really feel like I’ve obtained the respect that I ought to have,” he concluded. “No, I’m not OK. I’m right here. I’m in a funk. It’s this loneliness mixed with a bitterness with your entire household.”

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

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