“I know Kody’s like this. He’s not going to have a wife come in and tell him what to do. He’s just not,” she said, addressing the matter after Kody shouted at the cameras that he doesn’t “have a head wife in this family” despite having “plenty of wives who have tried to be.”
Janelle Browntold the group that some of Kody’s rules are “way over the top” but agreed to follow them ahead of Christmas. And though Janelle, 52, won’t be around for Thanksgiving,Christine Brownwas still mulling over whether she’ll be around for the fall holiday. (Before season 16 premiered, Christine, 49,announced her separationfrom Kody in November after 25 years together.)
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“I cannot express enough how hard it is to be in a plural family where my husband and his other wife is having a problem and it completely affects my life, but I’m really supposed to stay out of it and I have no say,” she said. “The lines are hard between our different marriages because it’s like, okay, you got to respect that she’s got her own relationship with Kody. But at the same time, their relationship affects yours.”
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The issues within Kody’s other relationships are very apparent throughout the episode. At one point, Kody revealed that prior to the pandemic, the house visit rotation he had with his wives didn’t include Meri.
“Meri and I aren’t in that kind of relationship,” he said in a confessional. “We’re in a state of friendship.”
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Kody also clashed with Christine over his COVID-19 rules for the family, which she called “ridiculous.” But Kody, in turn, told the cameras Christine’s “values” on this matter are different from his and said she’s “so full of bulls—.”
“Home is just hard right now. It’s hard to be home,” Christine later said in a confessional. “Kody and I are in a tough spot. I don’t really want to be around that very often. It just hurts to be home and it’s easier to leave.”
“You know what COVID has brought out in our family? Is how much we want to be a family,” she added. “We’re not.”
Sister Wivesairs Sundays (10 p.m. ET) on TLC.
source: people.com
