Traces have been drawn. Sides have been chosen. And the Brown household is significantly damaged.
And the one one that doesn’t appear nice with that association is the one particular person most members of the family agree is the rationale for the estrangement.
To date, season 19 of Sister Wives has been a testimonial to the horrors of divorce. Filmed over the course of the vacation season on the finish of 2022, fans have watched as the Brown family navigates life as 4, particular person households, fairly than one large plural family.
Some are doing higher than others, however producers appear to be making an effort to concentrate on Kody’s relationships together with his kids, each estranged and in any other case.
Whether or not this was a choice made within the wake of Garrison’s passing is unclear.
However what’s clearly evident is that Kody’s children fall into two categories in their father’s eyes: loyal or disrespectful.
Grandpa Kody Meets The New Additions
One of many few older youngsters who has maintained a relationship together with her father is Mykelti. Within the fourth episode of season 19, she invitations her father and his final, remaining spouse Robyn over to satisfy her new child twins.
It’s an unusually tender second underneath extraordinarily tense circumstances. Robyn explains in her confessional that Mykelti appears extra of “the reality.” Which means not like a few of Kody’s different siblings, Mykelti doesn’t place the blame or harbor ill-will in opposition to her father for a way the household has imploded.
Nevertheless, when Kody means that Mykelti transfer to the Coyote Pass compound and construct a home close to him and Robyn, her response echoes that of many different members of the family.
“No method in hell,” she says.
Whereas she might have forgiven her father for his previous misdeeds, Mykelti’s clearly tired of bringing her younger household into that exact fold once more.
As Christine places it “She’s not afraid to ask for what she wants. All the youngsters simply must take a web page out of Mykelti’s e book.”
The Ache of Covid Lives On
For the primary time this season, followers meet up with Gabriel, Janelle and Kody’s oldest son.
He visits his mother at her condo simply earlier than Christmas they usually share a heartfelt dialog over breakfast. The subject? Kody and Robyn.
“After the COVID scare was over and all of us went again to our regular lives, we nonetheless couldn’t reconcile as a household as a result of Kody felt just like the boys wanted to provide an apology to him and to Robyn. Particularly to Robyn.”
Followers will recall that in the course of the pandemic, Kody insisted on very strict laws throughout the household. Moreover, for a lot of that point, he refused to go to with any of the opposite wives and youngsters exterior of his residence with Robyn.
This included lacking his daughter Ysabel’s backbone surgical procedure. He additionally decreed that the older boys, together with Gabe, transfer out of Janelle’s home after Garrison supposedly got everyone sick after seeing his girlfriend.
When it comes to Janelle’s kids, it appears like Savannah is the one one who can “meet him the place he’s at.” Gabe, who admits to seeing a counselor about his emotions, can’t do the identical.
“He texted me and stated ‘I forgive you, please forgive me.’ I used to be like, forgive me for what?”
The Blame Recreation
The stark distinction between Mykelti and Gabe’s relationship with their father was fairly completely summed up later within the episode.
All of it comes right down to Robyn.
Mykelti has embraced Kody’s fourth spouse. She even went as far as to incorporate her within the delivery of the twins, a lot to the discomfort of her precise mom, Christine.
Gabe, then again, can’t abdomen Kody’s blatant “favoritism” of Robyn and their kids, as he places it. Due to this fact, he’s unwilling to provide Kody what he actually desires, and that’s timeless loyalty.
“If she truly believes that we had been mistreating her or her kids in any method when she was continuously getting favourited by dad and we had been all the time engaged on our relationship together with her youngsters,” Gabe explains.
“If she truly believes that, then there’s no likelihood of me having a relationship with Robyn ever once more.”
Janelle provides, after Robyn joined the household, Kody’s strategy to his relationships modified. Somewhat than searching for “ love and charity,” he demanded “loyalty and respect.”
And she or he has some extent. If one had been to deal with this episode like a ingesting sport, when the one rule was to drink each time Kody talks about “loyalty,” they’d be within the ER earlier than seeing the promo for subsequent week for certain!
Crying At Christmas
However all this speak of Robyn is form of ironic, provided that out of everybody, she appears to be the one particular person clinging on hope of fixing the household.
Janelle may be very clear: she desires peace for her youngsters, not reconciliation. Christine has greater than moved on, steering away from even discussing Kody in favor of gushing over her new identify, David.
And Meri, who was the more than likely to stay issues out, is now greater than ever thrilled she bought her launch (aka a divorce via their church) as Kody has done nothing but trash talk her to anybody who will pay attention.
(Meri is also somebody apparently who was not “loyal” to Kody, however that appears to be code for she couldn’t hold her mouth shut concerning the cut up and advised the church…)
At 1 AM, on Christmas Eve morning, Robyn movies a tearful confession from the lavatory ground. Despondent and clearly depressed, she laments over the truth that Meri refuses to return for Christmas day and that after once more, the entire household gained’t be collectively for the vacations.
However what about Kody?
“When he’s not doing his anger stuff, he’s weak. He misses the household expertise,” Robyn admits, which appears to be true when it’s issues like having one-on-one time together with his new grandkids.
Kody appears extra all in favour of investing of their marriage and their “particular” connection than dwelling up to now.
“Let’s transfer one,” he says. “Let’s let go. It was by no means meant to be. It was by no means meant to work.”
However can she? Given all of the speak of a divorce, it won’t work out as Kody hopes.
Time will inform, although!
