‘Sister Wives’: Kody & Janelle Wonder If Their Marriage Isn’t ‘Working’ Anymore Amidst Tension

Christine Brown officially left Kody Brown connected past week’s Sister Wives, but connected the Dec. 4 episode, helium faced immoderate issues successful his matrimony to Janelle Brown. Leading up to the episode, the 2 had been disagreeing astir Janelle’s determination to rent an RV to unrecorded successful connected the family’s Coyote Pass spot portion they waited to physique there. Kody wanted Janelle to rent oregon bargain different spot successful the meantime, alternatively than unrecorded successful the RV. Plus, determination had been months of hostility betwixt Kody and his sons with Janelle, Gabe and Garrison, implicit Kody’s strict COVID-19 rules.

With the 2021 vacation play approaching, Kody and Janelle met up to sermon their plans. Janelle brought up Kody’s hostility with Gabe and Garrison, and helium pointed retired that it was their attraction of his different wife, Robyn Brown, that really caused the distance. “I received immoderate texts from Gabe and Garrison, fundamentally blaming maine for what was going connected with the family,” Robyn explained successful a confessional. Kody told Janelle, “There’s an unwillingness for immoderate of the household to judge different members of the household oregon to pass with different members of the family. I person idiosyncratic successful my beingness [Robyn] who is fundamentally loyal to me, who sees maine arsenic the caput of the family.”

Janelle Brown connected the Dec. 4 ‘Sister Wives.’ (TLC)

Janelle was flabbergasted by Kody’s comments and took them to mean that helium conscionable wanted her to beryllium much similar Robyn. On the different hand, helium insisted that helium simply wanted loyalty from Janelle. “It frustrates maine beyond content that helium perceives this 1 woman arsenic being truthful cleanable arsenic specified a saint, who was truthful bully to america and she was treated truthful wrong,” Janelle said. “Kody’s been a breached grounds astir this. Robyn’s been victimized. I don’t spot it that way.”

The speech past turned to Kody accusing Janelle of surviving similar a “single woman” arsenic opposed to idiosyncratic who was joined to him. “I bask the independence,” Janelle admitted. “I don’t cognize however it got started, but I bask it. I consciousness similar someway possibly we mislaid something.”

Kody Brown with each 4 of his wives. (TLC)

As Kody continued to effort and property Janelle to beryllium loyal, helium came to a realization. “Maybe this is not a bully fit,” helium told her. “Maybe this doesn’t work.” Janelle explained that she felt she WAS being loyal. She said that she felt similar the “rules” were changing due to the fact that Kody had ever encouraged her to beryllium autarkic successful the past. “I ne'er thought I would ever beryllium successful a spot wherever I’d beryllium questioning my relationship,” Janelle added successful a confessional. “But the past fewer years I’ve begun to wonderment if we’re compatible anymore. Maybe this doesn’t enactment anymore for me. I don’t cognize if you tin alteration the mode our narration was for 30 years each of a sudden. Maybe that’s a motion that it conscionable doesn’t enactment anymore. I’m not idiosyncratic who throws successful the towel connected a marriage, but it seems astir similar there’s this gulf and I can’t springiness him [what helium wants].”

Janelle told Kody that helium was her “best friend” and the idiosyncratic that she tells everything to, and Kody admitted that helium didn’t privation to suffer different woman similar helium mislaid Christine. “I consciousness similar I person to bash everything I tin to marque this work,” Janelle shared. “I’m not adjacent definite it’s imaginable to travel backmost from wherever we are.”

Kody brought up Janelle’s determination to bargain the RV without consulting him, arsenic good arsenic different things that had been bothering him successful their relationship. She was “spitting mad” implicit his accusations, but inactive told him that she wanted to enactment to hole their relationship. “I deliberation we’re astatine a precise logical place,” Janelle told Kody. “Our kids are leaving and I’m looking astatine you like…maybe we should person a amended relationship.” Kody agreed with that, and they seemed to extremity the speech successful a bully place. The amusement continues with different occurrence connected Dec. 11.