Sister Wives: Kody’s Robyn Dilemma & Affection’s Impact
The latest episode of “Sister Wives” put the spotlight on the difficulties of plural marriage.
The Sunday, April 27 episode of the popular TLC series was awash with Valentine’s Day sentiment. Naturally, members of the Brown family – Kody, Meri, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn Brown – were in a reflective mood.
Kody, in particular, shared an interesting perspective on marriage after experiencing three divorces within a mere 14 months. “My church isn’t a cult. It’s hard to get into and easy to get out of, but marriage is its own cult. I don’t want to disparage marriage, but it is easy to get into and it is hard to get out of,” the 56-year-old confessed to the cameras.
Later, the episode showed Kody taking Robyn, 46, out for a Valentine’s Day dinner, where she inquired about his feelings on no longer being in a polygamous relationship. Kody admitted to Robyn that he felt “slapped by polygamy.”
“It’s hard not to be bitter about the fact that I bought off on it and did it because in the end, in the last moments of it, it felt terrible,” he said. “I’m like, literally bitter sometimes.”
When Robyn asked if he missed what things were like before the separation, Kody called it a “loaded” question.
“I don’t want to be flippant with my answer because we were devoted to this, but I’m not interested in plural marriage anymore,” he then explained to the cameras. “I don’t want to pursue another woman because I don’t want that headache, the questions, the struggles, the wonder about trust. I’m not in that space.”
Kody then told Robyn that he “can’t deny” that his children are a “blessing” that came from plural marriage, but he’s “completely discouraged by the idea that people feel obligated to do what we did.” Robyn, on the other hand, expressed that she’s been “heartbroken by all of this and trying to make sense of it.”
She later confided to the cameras separately that she’s now “very scared of plural marriage” because of “what has happened” to her family, adding that “there’s a lot of like trauma there.”
Despite Kody’s initial struggles adjusting to life as a monogamous man after decades of polygamy, he confidently told Robyn that he feels “at peace” with their current situation as a couple. However, this wasn’t always the case for him.
“Because I’ve been in plural marriage for so long and it was a sole focus of marriage for me, when we failed at it, I was sabotaging myself,” he explained. “There were days unfair to Robyn that I thought about just walking away from our relationship, too. And that was just because I was so broken, I became self-destructive.”
Reflecting on his attempts to sabotage his relationship with Robyn, Kody actually apologized to her “for the dark space I went through and how it harmed you because it wasn’t fair to you.”
“Because I was angry, you’re withdrawing from me. And because you were withdrawing from me, I was experiencing not just the anger from the rejection and the anger from the failure of our failures in plural marriage and everything that I was experiencing there, it was causing me to literally have bad thoughts about us.”
In another segment of the episode, Robyn revealed something she felt was detrimental to their marriage.
“This was something that [Kody, Meri, Janelle and Christine] decided before I even came in the family to not show affection in front of each other. I always saw it as a mistake,” she recalled. “I think it made Kody feel alone, and I think it made each of us wives feel kind of alone.”
Robyn noted that affection “brings comfort to the couple,” adding, “It makes the couple feel kind of safe and secure. And in plural marriage, there’s a lot of insecurity just because there’s so much sharing.”
“It would have made each wife feel more secure and more comfortable if Kody would have been able to show affection or we would have been able to show affection to him,” she concluded.
“Sister Wives” airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on TLC. Stay tuned for more updates from Eternal Pen!
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