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Robyn Brown, Meri Brown and Janelle Brown had been stuffed in on Christine Brown’s resolution to go away Kody Brown and transfer to Utah on the Oct. 2 episode of Sister Wives. Christine had made up her thoughts weeks in the past, however lastly sat down with the opposite wives to share the place she was at. All 5 adults got here collectively to movie the tense dialog.
Meri and Robyn had been extremely caught off guard by Christine’s resolution. In the meantime, Janelle had an inkling that Christine is perhaps leaving, however she nonetheless vocalized her fears for what would occur with their children’ relationships. Christine was planning on taking her and Kody’s youngest daughter, Truely, together with her to Utah, which sparked a giant debate amongst the group.
“She’ll be superb,” Christine assured everybody. “It’s going to be onerous and she or he’ll miss everyone and I’ll be taking her from Kody…it’s onerous, don’t get me fallacious.” Kody, who had principally been quiet as much as that time, jumped into the dialog on the point out of his daughter. “You gained’t be taking her from me,” he insisted. “We’ll must get shared custody. It’ll must be 50/50.”
In a confessional, he added, “I’m not going to take a seat right here and have her do that with out objecting to it and saying that we gotta work one thing out for custody. I don’t know what that appears like. This dialogue hasn’t occurred.” Christine was shocked by Kody’s response, and informed him that she thought they’d already mentioned this privately. “I by no means stated it was okay that you just had been transferring,” he retorted. “We simply talked about transferring.”
Christine remembered issues otherwise, however Kody stood his floor. “I by no means stated it was okay,” he stated. “I by no means made a giant deal of it, however I by no means answered that. You by no means requested when you might transfer. You stated you had been transferring. Okay, I allow you to go, that’s what I stated, I agree. However you by no means informed me the primary time you talked about this that you just had been going to maneuver. You simply stated, ‘Let me go.’ That doesn’t imply you simply run with Truely and Truely’s out of my life.”
Kody was adamant that he wanted to stay a key determine in his daughter’s life. That set Christine off, as a result of she didn’t really feel he was spending enough time with any of their kids, even when she lived shut by. “I discover it ironic that now he needs to be concerned in my children’ lives now that I’m leaving,” she admitted. “Now he needs 50/50 time with us. The entire time we lived right here, if he wished 50/50 time, he ought to’ve been round extra. He doesn’t get 50/50. He hasn’t been round sufficient for that.”
The dialog continued in circles earlier than Christine moved on and guaranteed the opposite wives that they’d work out the way forward for holidays and birthdays as a household. “Me leaving gained’t change the connection my children have with you,” she insisted.
Nonetheless, Robyn and Meri had been shook. “I’m nonetheless in shock slightly bit,” Robyn admitted. “I’m nonetheless making an attempt to determine what this implies for the household. The concept that Christine wouldn’t be my sister spouse feels fallacious to me. I haven’t seen numerous constructive examples of the aftermath when a spouse leaves a plural household and that’s scary to me.” Meri added, “I don’t understand how lengthy this has been coming, nevertheless it’s actually disappointing to me.”
The prolonged dialog ended with the episode, and there have been clearly nonetheless some harm and confused emotions. Sister Wives airs on Sundays at 10:00 p.m. on TLC.
