Sister Wives’ Kody Brown Has ‘Bitterness’ Amid Christine Break up

The tough actuality. Sister Wives’ Kody Brown’s battle to just accept his cut up from Christine Brown has left him with a foul style in his mouth — and resentment for his complete household.

“Christine and I’ve been on the quick observe from separation to divorce now for a couple of months. The final time the household bought collectively was when Christine advised us she was leaving,” Kody, 53, mentioned in the course of the Sunday, October 9, episode of the TLC sequence. “I really feel very separated from the household. I’ve struggled via this course of.” (Christine, 50, introduced through Instagram in November 2021 that she and Kody cut up after greater than 25 years.)

The Wyoming native revealed that he was additionally coping with Janelle Brown’s transfer from her home — which she may not lease — into an RV. Janelle, 53, deliberate to park the fifth-wheeler on the Coyote Cross property, which consists of 5 totally different heaps.

“My life is in a type of limbo as a result of Christine’s leaving and I don’t know what that appears like. I’ve been within the anger section of divorce, so I’ve not been addressing it very nicely,” Kody defined. “I suppose this development challenge with Janelle and [contractor] Pete [is] form of a kind of issues to get my thoughts off my divorce frustration. I’m within the anger section. I get tied up in knots over Christine leaving.”

Kody’s relationship along with his first spouse, Meri Brown, additionally hit one other roadblock in the course of the Sunday episode after the patriarch advised Meri, 51, that it may be higher if she moved to Utah to run her mattress and breakfast. Meri’s mother, Bonnie, was working the place earlier than her loss of life, which followers realized about earlier this season.

“I used to be listed here are the very starting. I helped begin this household. It was me and him and we had plans. He liked me,” Meri mentioned throughout a confessional whereas holding again tears. “For him to only be like, ‘Um, simply go up there now.’ It didn’t make sense.”

Kody, nevertheless, managed to press pause on all of the drama and be part of Christine in celebrating their daughter Ysabel’s highschool commencement. Whereas the celebration — which additionally included Meri, Janelle and Robyn Brown and their respective youngsters — was successful, Kody left feeling “blue” about their future.

“We’ll by no means be there once more. I’m dwelling in a delusional world the place I’m wishing Christine didn’t depart. I’m scuffling with kind of a state of remorse and frustration,” Kody advised the cameras. “It’s a bizarre factor to be getting left. It’s made me query moving into plural marriage. Query my religion. The message we needed to the world about useful polygamy appears so dysfunctional now.”

The pinnacle of the Brown household additionally confessed that his relationships with a few of the different youngsters — not simply his children with Christine — had not too long ago hit a tough patch.

“I’ve bought what seems like very strained relationships with a bunch of the youngsters. I don’t really feel like I’ve bought the respect that I ought to have,” he concluded. “No, I’m not OK. I’m right here. I’m in a funk. It’s this loneliness mixed with a bitterness with the complete household.”

Sister Wives airs on TLC Sundays at 10 p.m. ET.

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