Kody Brown Calls His Children ‘Triggering’: I’m ‘Angry Out of My Mind’ 

We’re 3 episodes into play 19 of Sister Wives and here’s what we tin archer you. 

Kody Brown hasn’t changed astatine all. 

Heading into this season, galore fans questioned however the amusement could proceed fixed that Kody is nary longer joined to 3 retired of his 4 wives. Granted, the play takes spot specified weeks aft his divided from Meri successful 2022.

But the information remains that it feels unusual watching a amusement astir a plural matrimony wherever determination is none. Instead, we’re bearing witnesser to the messy aftermath, which includes a begetter navigating big relationships with his kids. 

And he’s doing a unspeakable job. Just inquire his wife. 

Christine and Robyn yet stock a infinitesimal unsocial connected Sister Wives aft the divorce. (TLC)

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We rejoin the Brown household soon aft Mykelti has fixed commencement to her twins. What should beryllium a joyous infinitesimal for the household is proving to beryllium a spot much … complicated. 

Mykelti is inactive adjacent with Robyn, Kody’s past remaining wife, and invited her to beryllium with her during the commencement and the days that followed. This made things awkward with her ain parent Christine, who was besides determination for her daughter. 

What’s absorbing is that Kody continually paints his exes arsenic bitter, angry, but astir especially, rude to Robyn.

But erstwhile Robyn and Christine find themselves look to look arsenic caller grandmas helping Mykelti, thing could look farther from the truth. Christine is benignant to Robyn, adjacent sings her praises for sleeping successful a closet conscionable to beryllium adjacent to the twins. 

Janelle echoes the sentiment, pointing retired that it tin beryllium imaginable for them each to “coparent peacefully.”

When it’s clip to caput backmost home, Robyn weeps successful her car arsenic she leaves. “I conscionable truly emotion being a grandma,” she says, knowing that her clip with Mykelti and Christine is simply a glimpse astatine what was lost. 

Kody, who did not articulation her, elemental says successful his confessional

“I’m having a hard clip connecting with each of my kids. 

Kody says his bid astir his divorces and his kids icing him out. (TLC)

The One With Four Thanksgivings

A week aft the twins are born, the household settles successful to their idiosyncratic Thanksgiving celebrations. Christine has her household successful Utah, Janelle had her kids implicit successful Las Vegas, and Kody and Robyn settee successful for their archetypal Thanksgiving unsocial with their kids. 

Meri, who was invited by Robyn to articulation them, declines. “I’m not a subordinate of the family,” Meri insists successful her confessional. Later, it turns retired Meri is precise sick connected the time and spent it alone, thing that Robyn feels unthinkable blameworthy about. 

But not Kody. No, helium seems much than blessed to person his tiny gathering. “ I consciousness safe,” helium tells the camera. “We are each successful a authorities of respect with each other.”

And that’s each Kody seems to want: respect and harmony. Seems reasonable, until you recognize wherefore helium doesn’t person that with the remainder of his kids. 

That’s erstwhile Robyn steps successful to punctual him. 

Robyn Brown shares her sentiment present connected Season 19 of Sister Wives. (TLC)

Kody and Robyn’s “Heat Exchange”

Quite suddenly, the surface goes achromatic and viewers are told that camera arrived conscionable arsenic Kody was driving away from the location aft a “heated exchange” with Robyn. 

When helium returns, the cameras commencement rolling arsenic Robyn confronts Kody astir not reaching retired to the kids.

You see, astir of his kids with his ex-wives are successful their 20’s. Some are adjacent joined with children of their own. Because of showdowns during Covid and the divorces from their mothers, galore of Kody’s kids are aggravated with him. 

And Kody is acceptable to enactment the blasted connected everyone for this but for himself.

“I’m not going to beryllium present and combat with you and person a rift successful our narration origin by these radical who person created the biggest close successful my life,” helium says to Robyn arsenic the statement carries on. 

Who helium means by “these people” could beryllium fundamentally anyone. His exes, their kids –  He astatine 1 constituent sanction drops his girl Madison, who possibly supra each has acceptable precise wide boundaries with him. So overmuch truthful that astatine Logan’s wedding, she made definite that her kids had nary enactment with him.

Janelle explains that Madison and her different kids consciousness Kody “ditched” them and is excessively inconsistent to beryllium a portion of their lives. They privation much from him than he’s consenting to give, some past and now. 

But Robyn sees it arsenic Kody’s work to marque much of an effort. She knows firsthand what it’s similar to beryllium a kid of a divorcement and consciousness that your begetter has fixed up connected you. She doesn’t privation that for Kody’s kids. 

Kody Brown fights with Robyn astir abandoning his children. (TLC)

Kody, the Victim

But the information is that Kody emotionally tin not grip being confronted with his kids and their “contempt”. For 1 thing, helium refuses to admit helium did thing wrong. 

“I americium lone blameworthy of not falling madly successful emotion with their mothers,” helium insists clip and clip again. 

“Some radical deliberation that parental kid relationships don’t person to beryllium reciprocal,” helium adds, “but erstwhile they’re adults, yeah, they do.”

And determination it is: Kody feels similar the victim. Rather than perceive to his kids and perceive retired their grievances, he’s hanging onto however they are making him consciousness by not turning a unsighted oculus oregon being unwavering loyal to him. 

In fact, Kody goes truthful acold arsenic to confess that helium can’t grip an big speech with his kids astir their feelings. 

“I’m truthful aggravated astir what has happened that if I speech to my kids, I’m disquieted that they’ll trigger maine with an accusation… I’m conscionable bitter, I’m aggravated retired of my mind. 

Robyn forces him to committedness he’ll support trying, adjacent truthful acold arsenic to archer him that she’s starting to suffer respect for him due to the fact that he’s not trying hard capable to beryllium the benignant of begetter his kids need. 

He promises her he’ll try, but helium besides knows he’s not “fixing it today, tomorrow, adjacent week”

And the information is, arsenic we each cognize by the mode helium described his narration with Garrison earlier his death, helium ne'er not the accidental to hole it successful immoderate cases.