Kody, 53, has gone through three breakups over the last several months. While his third wifeChristine Brownpublicizedtheir splitin November 2021, his separations fromfirst wifeMeri Brownandsecond wifeJanelle Brownwere revealed during the three-partSister Wives: One on Onespecial.
“I really, really struggle with it because it feels, like, ‘Oh, well. Those didn’t work. So, on to [someone] new,'” she said. “That’s hard for me. That’s really, really hard for me. It feels disrespectful.”
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“I don’t know what to do with it. It’s messing with my identity,” she continued before bursting into tears. “It’s not the future I wanted. I want that house with us on the porch in the rocking chairs with our grandkids and our kids around us. You know, the grandparent ranch. That’s what I want.”
At one point, Kody admitted that he is “right on the verge of not even being a polygamous” because of what he’s endured.
“I think a part of them would always be a little bit sad that this didn’t work and that the big family didn’t work,” said Christine, 50. “And I think that there’d be a little bit of a mourning and a little bit of a loss there still, because it’s a dream, right? It’s giving up on a dream, and it’s not a dream that they wanted to give up on, necessarily.I don’t see them looking for another wife after this.”
“They handed him to meand said, ‘We don’t want to spend time with him,’ basically. ‘Here, you have him all the time,'” she said. “They made choices that made it so that he wasn’t feeling like he could go over there because of his personal beliefs in protecting his family, protecting our jobs, protecting our health. Yeah, of course he’s going to flourish with my kids, because he’s around more.”
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“He’s had wives reject him, affection-wise, because they are uncomfortable or they don’t like it. That’s not who they are,” she continued. “I’m sorry, but if you’re rejecting someone’s affection, your spouse, I don’t see how that’s going to help your relationship.”
source: people.com
