Sister Wives’ Kody Brown Talks ‘Horrible Relationships,’ Blames Exes for Him Not Loving Them Anymore

Throughout Sunday’s all-new Sister Wives, Kody admitted he was “horrible” in his previous relationships, “however wasn’t prepared to discard them.”

And he did not wish to both, noting in a confessional Sunday that he had what he referred to as “f–k and struggle” model relationships together with his first three wives — Meri, Janelle and Christine Brown.

“[I] did not even know I used to be in horrible relationships,” Kody confessed. “You do not know you are in a foul relationship.”

“You simply assume you are in a traditional relationship as a result of all your folks have the identical downside till you are in a traditional relationship that has deep emotional intimacy as a substitute of the [butting heads],” he added, seemingly referring to fourth spouse Robyn Brown as his “regular relationship.”

Kody went on to clarify, “Some folks name it F&F. And the second phrase is struggle. Or F&F and the primary phrase is struggle. That does not create intimacy, that simply creates orgasms.”

“Do not blame me for not loving you. I used to be doing my obligation,” he stated in one other confessional of what occurred as his relationships together with his first three wives waned. “Blame your self if I do not love you, okay?”

“After I’m in love with a girl, that is her fault,” he added. “So what occurs after I’m not in love with a girl? Is that simply my fault? If I am mad a couple of girl, wish to serve her, passionate, wish to rub her ft, wish to carry in her groceries, if I wish to purchase her jewellery, if I need her to really feel particular on a regular basis, if I am in love with a girl, I believe that is her fault.”

Whereas Kody seemingly pointed to his failed marriages with this all three of his unique wives as turning into unhealthy, he defined that his relationship with Meri was the worst.

“This marriage was on the rocks your entire marriage,” he stated of Meri, whom he wed in 1990. “And the way would I do know that? As a result of I had such a greater relationship with Janelle, with Christine, with Robyn, and Janelle and Christine did not survive.”

He added that he “ought to have gotten out of the connection 25 years in the past” as a substitute of sticking it out for 30-plus years.

Kody’s relationship with Meri was the final to formally come to an finish, regardless of the pair having hassle for years.

They did legally divorce in 2014, nevertheless, so Kody might marry Robyn, 46, and undertake her three kids from a previous marriage.

Kody and Meri remained spiritually married for almost one other decade earlier than she confirmed in January 2023 that they had been performed. His religious marriages with Christine and Janelle led to 2021 and 2022, respectively.

“My alternative was at all times to remain. Had I wished to depart sooner, I’d have left sooner,” Meri advised Kody on Sunday’s episode, noting she took the steps to “terminate” their union with their church.

Whereas Kody was fantastic with transferring on from his relationship with Meri, he did not like how the church categorized their break up.

“They stated they’d give Meri a launch, a divorce on account of abandonment, and I simply do not consider that that’s true in any respect. She was by no means deserted,” he stated in a confessional.

Meri, in the meantime, was steadfast in her perception that Kody “knew what was taking place” all through the method and will have come along with her to the church elders.

“I do know that they use the phrases abandonment, and he actually did not like that. Most individuals don’t like what’s fact,” Meri quipped.

Nonetheless, regardless of all of it, Kody revealed that he was hopeful his relationship and friendship with Meri would not finish after their breakup.

“I do not need any extra enemies, and I do not need one other loss,” Kody advised the cameras. “I simply hope that sooner or later, Meri will name me when she’s received one thing enjoyable to share.”

“I am embarrassed that my different divorces have created contempt and contemptuous enemies,” he added, referencing his splits from Christine and Janelle.

Elsewhere within the episode, Christine mentioned her new relationship with now-husband, David Woolley.

The previous polygamist broached the topic of David to her six kids and their spouses, who stated he reminded them of Kody.

“He jogs my memory of Kody,” Christine’s daughter Mykelti’s husband, Tony, stated Sunday.

“Oh god!,” Christine, who was the primary of Kody’s wives to formally depart him, replied.

“He is from the identical era for positive,” Tony stated of David. “All this Boomer stuff that I do not know what he is saying.”

Noting the eight 12 months age hole between herself and her future husband, Christine stated that she is decidedly not a Boomer, although technically David is.

Kody, in the meantime, gushed about being a member of Gen X, later in a confessional.

“Gen X, we are the feral era,” Kody shared. “What a good time to be alive! You are a youngster within the ’80s, you’ve got received music movies, you’ve got received vogue, so many issues taking place. Duran Duran occurred within the ’80s!”

Whereas Christine’s children need what’s finest for her and even had a couple of good issues to say about David, too, not everybody was instantly on board when it got here to the brand new couple’s whirlwind relationship.

“As pleased as I’m for her, I believe there’s a strangeness in it simply because I’ve solely recognized her as married to my dad,” Christine and Kody’s daughter Ysabel Brown stated in a confessional. “She’s solely been divorced for a bit of bit, and so it is a bit of unusual.”

To her mother, Ysabel added, “I do, nevertheless, assume you’re transferring so, so quick.”

Christine agreed along with her daughter’s take, nevertheless, she did not specific any curiosity in slowing issues down with David.

“I knew after our first date that this was one thing that I actually wished to spend money on,” she shared. “My children, it is gonna be too quickly for them. It’s essential for me to understand how my children really feel about David, however how they really feel isn’t gonna finish my relationship with David.”

One individual surprisingly on board with Christine’s blossoming love life is Kody, who stated in his confessional, “If Christine is wanting up to now, she ought to have been courting, in my thoughts, each time she felt she was divorced.”

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