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Funny-Bend-7959 · 2023-03-23T16:07:30+00:00

I think the lifestyle worked for this family early on. As a career woman with kids, I could see the benefits Janelle had…could work long hours knowing her kids were cared for. No worries about making dinner. Never had to call out because her kids were sick. So yeah, I can see some benefits to the whole “sister wife” relationship.

ElinaMakropulos · 2023-03-23T18:02:21+00:00

None of them are good parents, just varying levels and flavors of bad, none of them know how to communicate and function as a family nor have they ever really seemed to try to.

Robyn is not a master manipulator; Kody is just really stupid and easy to manipulate.

And possibly most unpopular, the most interesting thing about this show has never been polygamy but rather watching 5 adults make the absolute worst decisions for 17 seasons. Every single time they pick the worst possible course of action and then spend a couple of seasons cleaning up the mess. If it’s all for the show, ruining your life and that of all your family members for the sake of a tv show is some real dedication 😂

kitty5670 · 2023-03-23T15:17:32+00:00

Here’s an unpopular one: I’m skeeved out by how the SW fandom is so interested in Christine “getting some” from her new partner. I’ve seen so many cringey, ickey comments about how fans hope she’s getting some every night and all this. Christine is a 50 something, conservative, religiously indoctrinated woman (who admittedly is making progress away from some ideologies) who has never put herself out there as a sex icon. There’s a huge difference between wishing Christine happiness and wanting to actually discuss her sex life. It’s weird!

Queenhotsnakes · 2023-03-23T13:33:09+00:00

As awful as these people can be, they are all victims of an extremely toxic, misogynistic, religiously abusive culture that has given them all unrealistic expectations of marriage, motherhood, and life in general. That doesn't excuse any behavior, but I do think some of us could use a little more empathy when judging these people. The wives especially(except you, Robyn, fuck off) are just now realizing who they are, their value, their confidence. They're middle aged! Give them some grace and acknowledge they each did something brave and courageous by leaving Kody.

babashishkumba · 2023-03-23T14:53:08+00:00

Kody should have had his own space somewhere. It's a totally reasonable expectation

Either-Interest4946 · 2023-03-23T20:20:23+00:00

Janelle is the most well spoken and reasonable member of the family, but I don’t think she is as smart as people give her credit for. She’s made some pretty stupid financial decisions to end up where she was by season 17

photogypsy · 2023-03-23T13:35:40+00:00

Gwen’s fiancé is a famewhore user who’s exploiting Gwen. Evidence- Bea pushed her to paywall on Patreon , Bea was the one irritated about the Reddit recaps, Bea is the one that slept cuddled with the YouTube award.

MooseRobot · 2023-03-23T13:37:06+00:00

Meri is really not a bad person or any more or less "problematic" than the other wives. Most of what people rag on her for happened when she was 21 to 24, part of a cult, struggling with fertility and watching her value diminish as a result of the expectations for women in the cult. She's lived her whole life, basically attempting to reach the level that would give her value to her family and her husband. The stuff we've watched play out in TV is likely highly curated and not super accurate to what really happened. Every single one of the wives has had an equally bad look at one time or another.

And.

Supporting the kids in their patreon or MLM crap is just helping to create another Brown generation of MLM scam artists and societal moochers.

Puchilu · 2023-03-23T17:43:24+00:00

They are all horrible people. Down to Christine with her mlms and not having medical insurance for her kids when tlc money was coming in. And don't get me started with them ripping the kids out of school because Kody promised them loads of money. But I'm still somewhat supportive because I give them a slight pass due to their cult upbringing. Their moral compass is skewed.

punkybrewbrew · 2023-03-23T18:49:26+00:00

This show, like a lot of reality shows, cease to be real after several years of TLC money. I would be much more interested to see how this large family coped with living every day if they all had to work 9-5 jobs to make ends meet instead of relying on their fame.

PracticeImaginary710 · 2023-03-23T19:04:32+00:00

Out of all the wives I feel the worst for meri. (I also find her annoying AF but that’s besides my point). I think meri doesn’t have the life she wanted(as she got older I think she got over it but…)

In the pilot only Robyn and meri said kody was there soulmates. So I think Meri really did love him and I’m not convinced the other 2 wives really did. Also the culture meri grew up in made women’s self worth= babies and meri wasn’t able to have but the 1 kid. And seeing “your soulmate” with other women who have that self worth (remember: self worth=babies) can make you feel depressed.

Twizzlers666 · 2023-03-23T20:37:22+00:00

I don't think Janelle was good with finances at all, they have had multiple bankruptcies. I think the person that would have managed the money the best was Meri.

geniologygal · 2023-03-23T18:35:08+00:00

I don’t understand why grown adults on here have Truly on a pedestal and practically worship her.

BluegreenColors · 2023-03-23T14:58:16+00:00

Christine needs to spend more time parenting and prioritizing Truely. She recently shared a clip of David and herself riding in an ATV and Truely in the backseat where Truely bites David’s hand. He says, “she just bit me!” Christine turns around and tells Truely to “be nice to David” and Truely says, “no”.

Truely has experienced a lot of change with the move plus Christine’s focus on her new boyfriend, and her behavior is starting to show the negative effect it’s having on her.

DareWright · 2023-03-23T15:39:22+00:00

My unpopular opinion is that Christine is sabotaging her new romance by posting it all over social media. She rushed into this relationship when she should be putting more time into learning about herself and her new status as an empowered woman.

Unpopular opinion #2: I’m unimpressed with Gwen’s patreon and can’t believe people are wasting their money on it.

Unpopular opinion #: I have zero interest in watching a spin-off involving any of the Browns.

Lonely_Teaching8650 · 2023-03-23T22:06:26+00:00

Christine is not a hero. Yes, she left Kody. Yes, she got Ysabel surgery. But she was just as complicit in leaving Ysabel to suffer for years because they wanted to try "natural" (read: unproven) methods first. She also didn't tell Truly about the separation OR the move - the poor kid overheard about the separation and the move was sprung on her last minute. All because Christine wanted to avoid an uncomfortable discussion.

I'm glad she's moved on and I hope the best for her and Truly, but she's not flawless.

display_name_op · 2023-03-23T17:20:29+00:00

While Meri definitely messed up by involving Leon in the affair, enmeshment and parentification is so absolutely systemic in their culture and that is not all on Meri. ALL of the wives have copped to leaning on their kids heavily for emotional support. People rag on Meri for pressuring Leon to forgive them but that child was Meri's whole world. She had no emotional support from her husband, or the other wives, and her sister had died. It's painful when your child is angry or disappointed in you. Leon claimed to need space which is understandable but they chose to live in the same house to be rude to Meri all summer.

sunshinenrainbows3 · 2023-03-23T14:52:32+00:00

I’m glad Christine is dating but I don’t want her to get married.

I think Gwen’s YouTube videos were beyond boring.

Sometimes I think truly is funny, but mostly she’s just a weird kid.

HappyLadyHappy · 2023-03-23T17:22:26+00:00

I never saw this alleged potential in Maddie that everyone talks about. She mentioned a few different possible career paths as most young people do. If I’m being honest, most of the kids, with just a few exceptions, strike me as…not particularly intelligent.

Daisee8 · 2023-03-23T12:47:48+00:00

I don't like Christine. Now there's an unpopular opinion for you.

Neither-Dentist-7899 · 2023-03-23T19:03:36+00:00

I like Robyn’s floral shirts.
I don’t think Kody and Robyn are soulmates. I think she’s just his current favorite wife and over time, like all the others, he’ll get bored of her. I doubt it’ll be a divorce but he’ll probably get his “own home” in the future.
Janelle is gullible. She’s dumped money and assets into the family pot. She knows what money was there, how it was spent, where Kody spent his time/effort, and before this season, never spoke a bad word about Kody. She wasn’t robbed of her money and future, she gave it away.

jamiekynnminer · 2023-03-23T19:38:22+00:00

Kody is a victim of a cult too. I think in 10 years he will be a completely different person and look back at all of this in shock that he even survived it and will have a lot of heartache over the children he couldn't reconcile with.

mathnerd405 · 2023-03-23T17:35:12+00:00

I don't think Kody and Robyn are the master manipulators that they have been portrayed to be.

Lazy-Lasagna121 · 2023-03-23T19:25:26+00:00

If Robyn never joined the family, the outcome would be the same as it is today. Kody is a monogamous man at heart

OpheliaPhoeniXXX · 2023-03-23T20:25:07+00:00

I don't think Robyn is ALWAYS faking caring or faking crying, I think she feels her feelings very intensely, she's just largely selfish and self serving. Her survival and her kids survival will always come first. I think she protested too much with the "god will provide a rental" because she knew Kody had emotionally checked out, as soon as he found that house he dgaf about building on coyote pass anymore, and she knew the other wives (and public) were going to be scorned by Kody's money grab -- just after the wives had some real bonding moments. Acceptance, a sense of sisterhood, the romanticized albeit unrealistic dream of polygamy Robyn was looking for. In the first talk about renting/buying she seemed to share some genuine grief about this possibly being the "family culture" death knoll (cue: Robyn's horrible acting to try and convince us buying instead of building wasn't their fault).

MavenOfNothing · 2023-03-23T13:51:10+00:00

Since I was down voted about 100 times for this observation, I know it is really unpopular.

Calling Robyn "robojaw" does not make you clever. It really makes you look like a shit person. That's her jaw, she can't do anything about it. Others have that exact or similar jawline, they can't change it either.

Euphoric-Zucchini-18 · 2023-03-23T16:25:24+00:00

Christine is not the perfect angel people make her out to be.

NoBall8 · 2023-03-23T15:37:41+00:00

My Sister Wives Closet is shit but at least it’s an actual business and not a predatory MLM

LipstickSingularity · 2023-03-23T21:20:52+00:00

Minors should not be allowed on TV unblurred. Even with Parental consent. All of these fundies are trading their children's mental health for a TLC paycheck and its gross.

FailedFanfiction14 · 2023-03-23T21:44:51+00:00

I don’t dislike meri and I honestly don’t view the whole cat fishing thing as cheating at that point I think their marriage was over and she had every right to seek out another.

dianna1976 · 2023-03-23T15:19:01+00:00

A lot of the kids are stuck up jerks.

sucker4reality · 2023-03-23T14:00:55+00:00

Snarking on anyone’s looks or accents is a crappy thing to do.

Sivla-Alegna · 2023-03-24T01:08:45+00:00

Janelle is not good with money and finances.

Brianas-Living-Room · 2023-03-23T19:27:38+00:00

Christine is not the wonderful amazing great choice making parent the fandom makes her out to be. Latest: her daughter biting her boyfriend and her thinking it was adorable and funny. That was out of line and Id be embarrassed and speaking with the pediatrician about why my 13yo is biting adults and what this could mean

MsTruCrime · 2023-03-23T16:16:39+00:00

Leon is a jerk. Yes, they had it rough, but that is not an excuse for being awful. I feel like people overlook their shitty personality, under the umbrella of being “woke.” I’m as bleeding heart as they come, and am accepting of any identity one may give oneself, unless that identity is entitled, spoiled, asshole.

poietes_4 · 2023-03-23T14:38:21+00:00

Christine was a crappy mother. She may be getting a bit better now but she is still using Truely’s childhood and “trauma” to make money instead of protecting her childhood. She didn’t learn from any of her other mistakes.

tbone56er · 2023-03-23T15:46:35+00:00

Christine is also to blame for Truely almost dying. It’s not only on Kody. She was home for 4-5 days before Truely went cross eyed.

I don’t believe Tony and Mykelti when they claim they paid for part of their wedding. The show portrayed it as the parents paid for it, but T & M say TLC paid for some of it and they paid the rest. I definitely believe TLC paid, but not T & M.

I say this one every time, but I’ll say it again. Kotex is not a funny or clever name to call Kody.

Simple-Tea-3642 · 2023-03-23T23:46:40+00:00

As much as the show fascinates me, I find it incredibly irresponsible of Kody to have so many children if he’s unwilling or incapable of being a present father figure to all of them.

lalivevivo · 2023-03-24T04:41:30+00:00

Christine isn’t a good mom.

radat10 · 2023-03-23T17:01:56+00:00

I think everyone one of them was into the show for the money. Christine acts like she is such a victim but she knew all along, the viewers were the victims

fxnlfox · 2023-03-23T18:21:39+00:00

Robyn’s thyroid is not an emergency.

Diegobyte · 2023-03-23T19:25:59+00:00

That all the wives are in on the grift and aren’t anyone to be congratulated

SillySimian9 · 2023-03-24T01:39:10+00:00

Unpopular opinion: If Robyn had not joined the family, there would never have been a show…they would have stayed in Lehi and continued to suffer in abject poverty. Therefore, Robyn saved the family. (Still hate her tho.)

lilred190 · 2023-03-23T16:15:50+00:00

I’m on my first watch-through and I only just got to season 16, but I don’t think Robyn is as manipulative as people say (yet). I can definitely see her turning against everyone else as the pandemic goes on but Kody also spends all his time with her and he’s been openly shit-talking his family so it really makes sense why. I think she’s equally as flawed as everyone else.

trish3975 · 2023-03-23T20:06:08+00:00

Would probably drunk bang Kody. I said what I said

EvansHomeforBoys · 2023-03-23T16:21:25+00:00

Maddie was too young to drop out of college and get married, especially when she had so much potential. That’s not to say she can’t fulfill that potential but she definitely made her journey harder by adding three children to it.

Anyway, while she was too young for Caleb at the time I really dislike comments saying Caleb is gross or a predator or a groomer. Yes, she was too young for him and he too old for her, but that doesn’t automatically make someone a sexual deviant. It seems like the slightest age gap, even if it’s between a 17 and a 19 year old is considered “grooming” these days. Also, and I’m NOT saying it’s okay, but age gaps are less freaked out over here in Europe. My biggest problem with the whole Maddie-Caleb thing was the fact that she dropped out of college to move near him and then turn into a bridezilla and have babies at 19 years old.

I agree with Maddie that a birth is not a medical thing, but it’s not fair to compare situations because I live in a country where 1. homebirths still make up for half of all the births I believe and 2. a hospital is never very far away. So no, I don’t think a birth is something medical that needs to be dealt with by people covered head to toe in gowns and headgear but in Evie’s case they knew there was a very real chance of problems during or after the birth so when they didn’t go to the hospital for that I thought they were being irresponsible.

I’ll get downvotes over this one but I think Truely is a bit of a weird kid and I don’t really get all the ‘spirit animal’ love for her just because she was sassy about the bike riding incident. I hate the droopy pics Christine posts of her.

jackanddiane1670 · 2023-03-23T15:55:16+00:00

This may not be unpopular but I never see it discussed: janelle saying Logan should propose to his gf because he’s been with her for 8 months when he was about 20 is ridiculous. He said he was commuted to her but that wasn’t enough for Janelle, yet she’s the one who divorced her first husband after less than a year. Perhaps if they had dated longer and not married the first dude that came along they would’ve been happy. I hated her for pressuring her son that way

heminggay69 · 2023-03-23T17:53:46+00:00

most of the subs nicknames’ for the browns are annoying and kind of childish. i also can’t stand them, but trying to decipher sobyn and kotex and solnari among everything else is silly. just use their names

cryssy2009 · 2023-03-23T20:58:59+00:00

I understand why Meri is the way she is. I can’t imagine having her life from jump. I’ve also been married to my first boyfriend half my life. If he married two other women and continued to have babies with them while ignoring one of the most painful things a woman can ever go through, I’d be in a psych ward if I thought I’d go to hell if I didn’t live like that. She acts like a teenager bc she’s never learned any healthy coping mechanisms but even if she had, few people could’ve been in her situation and remained mentally healthy.

Environmental-Ant878 · 2023-03-23T21:46:15+00:00

There’s def some drama between Maddie and mykelti

Accomplished-Bite960 · 2023-03-24T09:48:59+00:00

All those Wives are fully accountable for their 30+ years of poor and codependent decisions and for seriously damaging all the children by modeling horrible behaviors. Period.

fiestabritches · 2023-03-23T14:31:16+00:00

Being mad that Robyn said something bad about the women’s looks (which another unpopular opinion: I don’t think she was talking shit about their weight with that comment) and then shit talking Robyn’s looks and weight isn’t really the vibe

sunsetorangespoon · 2023-03-23T16:34:11+00:00

There are so many things in this sub that get stretched to fit the sub’s narrative. “What does the nanny do” was taken completely out of context. Christine literally said that when talking about Covid safety—she literally was saying “what does the nanny do [in terms of Covid where Kody and Robyn deem her as a safe person]”. Things Robyn says are taken out of context all the time (don’t like Robyn).

HeckSueSue · 2023-03-23T17:33:08+00:00

1- I don't think Janelle and Christine should get a spinoff show...their lives are honestly not that interesting outside of them living polygamy.

2- Gwen and her fiance are swindling all of you who are paying her for "the tea".

3- Making fun of Robyn for things like her weight, jawline, eyebrows, collections, the way she parents her kids is uncalled for.

4- Robyn may be a helicopter mom but Christine and Janelle aren't the greatest of mom's either. I could list all the reasons why but I'd be here all day, if you've watched the show from the beginning you'd know what I'm talking about.

5- The fact that Robyns kids aren't dropping out of college to marry the first person they've dated is proof that maybe she isn't the monster mom so many people make her out to be.

ImmaCrafty · 2023-03-23T18:54:42+00:00

Oh, I'm sure I'll take a beating for this one, but I think Leo is a mess. This has nothing to do with them being trans or going by plural pronouns. Leo would benefit from some counseling, in my opinion. Leo had to grow up in an effed-up poly family as an only child - seeing Janelle's 6 kids and Christine's 6 kids - seeing her dad treat her mom like a turd - and then seeing how her dad treated Robyn and her bio kids and her kids with Kody. On TELEVISION! Leo said Leo couldn't wait to be a sister wife. Then Leo was bi. Now Leo is trans. I wish nothing but the best for Leo, but Leo needs some emotional and mental care. Leo's parents are assholes.

bumblebee______ · 2023-03-23T19:20:41+00:00

I know I am going to get down voted to the nether regions, but I can't stand Christine, never have. First of all her silly, fake (so very fake) personality is just over the top and ick. She has always acted like a whiny, princess who should always get her own way. Just like when the entire family didn't want to celebrate Joseph smith's birthday and she cried like a little bitch about it because it was what she wanted. Who cares about what the entire rest of the family wanted! And that fake crying scene where she said i never knew men could be bastards boo hoo hoo 😭. And the fake crying about being the basement wife to receive sympathy and pity. That's just how the house was layed out and she happened to get that apartment because the space worked out for her and her kids. She isn't the Saint that people portray her to be here. She acted like a brat when Kody presented her with the custom jewelry he made for her. Her reaction was just rude. Even if she didn't like the piece she should have been gracious about receiving the gift rather if she liked it or not. It's the thought that counts. He was trying and most men don't even do that. And trust me I'm not a Kody fan by any means. But her behavior is childish.

BilingualElf · 2023-03-23T19:32:28+00:00

I think that Meri has genuinely had it very rough. I’m not saying i think the accusations made against her don’t matter (we all choose our actions regardless of our circumstances and abuse is never ok), but I do feel for how rough she has had it. As someone who hasn’t been able to have kids I can’t imagine watching my husband build large families with his other wives. Yes, she did have a child, but only one and that child desperately wanted siblings. Her religion strongly encourages big families. She got left out a lot. Having a small family can have benefits (more money, more peace and quiet) but she either didn’t get those things or had to fight for them. And then the surrogacy thing. It was like Kody was dangling it front of her just to tease her ( or I have a theory that Robyn decided she didn’t want to and made Kody be the bad guy). I don’t find her likable, but I can see how she got to be such an angry person. Leon was also prone to fits of anger over things that seemed odd).

I think Truely needs professional help (and to not be on TV anymore). I am not sure what it is but something about her concerns me (like 12 year olds don’t bite-that’s super unusual!)

biggiesmalltits · 2023-03-23T15:34:32+00:00

Christine gets way too much credit. I think she played a huge part in the family dynamic being as it was. I also 100% believe that she was furious that kody considered reconciling with meri. I think she was probably mad that he was willing to put the work into Meri and not her, which is fair, but I don’t think she sat back and was cool with kody and Meri despite what she claimed.

yourerightmayne · 2023-03-24T00:07:41+00:00

Unpopular opinion, Christine was being immature all of season 16 and did not take Covid seriously. She wanted things that no one else wanted. However, with that said she did need to leave but she was not the victim she made herself be about moving back to Utah

grisuo · 2023-03-24T13:08:04+00:00

Robyn advocates for her kids in a way Christine and Janelle could (and probably did) learn from. Robyn would NEVERRR allow her child to walk around in pain with an untreated back condition for years.

Forever_Marie · 2023-03-23T20:46:16+00:00

Janelle is not as nice as people want her to be. She's passive sure but still ...off.

Janelle is somehow a better mother than Christine.

Leon is just awful, personality wise.

Honestly, I may not like Janelle or Christine, I am happy they are away from Kody.

Puzzleheaded_Fig_508 · 2023-03-23T15:23:21+00:00

I am genuinely scared of Truely, and I don’t think Christine paid enough attention to her middle kids.

MrsMandelbrot · 2023-03-23T16:20:09+00:00

I think Kody looks his best with a ponytail

NovaStar_StellaStar · 2023-03-24T03:44:25+00:00

Christine should get botox for her wrinkle between her eyes. That would make her look a couple years younger and even more attractive.

unebellecoeur · 2023-03-24T01:35:58+00:00

DISCLAIMER i watched seasons 1-4 when they came out, just watched most recent season but have no knowledge of the in between except what i see on TikTok lol.

Opinion: While I agree Robyn is whiney and makes herself a bit of a martyr, I don’t really dislike her that much at all.

I truly believe Robyn when she describes the life she wants for herself and her family however insane it may seem to be, but i also come from a background with a lot of religious abuse so that’s just my bias.

with a little bit more constructive support and a supportive partner, instead of a codependent enabling mess, in general I think she could see her part in the challenging dynamics created and perpetuated in their family dynamic by her martyrdom.

chasmfiend4 · 2023-03-24T01:44:38+00:00

Kody's hair looks better now that he is learning to manage his curls instead of creating a poofy mess.

Ok-Journalist-4090 · 2023-03-24T04:41:22+00:00

I actually felt bad for Meri in the last season... The way she just stuck around after being degraded by Kody

UnhappyAd9934 · 2023-03-24T07:44:01+00:00

I guess my unpopular opinion is I don't think Robyn's ex is as bad as she makes him out to be. I could be wrong but it seems like she was just as much of a problem in that failed marriage as him but opted to vilify him to gain sympathy and make herself look like a victim coming out of that divorce.

lululosthervoice · 2023-03-23T21:23:02+00:00

i don't like it when ppl comment on kodys looks (especially his hair) or give him or robyn nicknames ( = "sobyn" or "kidney") it's just annoying and kind of childish to me

Willowdeeno · 2023-03-24T00:13:18+00:00

Robin came into what she thought was a functioning family only to discover a dysfunctional mess.

OiKay · 2023-03-23T16:28:51+00:00

Even if she's finally done a smart thing and left her shitty abusive husband I still think Janelle is an asshole too.

Dry_Studio_2114 · 2023-03-23T17:19:40+00:00

My unpopular opinion is that people who pimp their families out on reality TV for money are total slimeballs. I think the only reason the Brown's did this is they could not support their large family on their own and TLC was an easy solution for them. They wanted to be the real life "Big Love." While entertaining for us, it's really sleazy.

funkelly1 · 2023-03-23T17:43:48+00:00

I think Kody was tired of trying to please 4 wives and towards he end he just gave up.

I don't think Robyn had intentions on breaking up the family and being the only wife.

Christine also plays the victim from time to time.

Meri has borderline personality disorder and as annoying as she is I don't think most of what she says and does she's aware of her doing.

MexicanGuey · 2023-03-23T17:47:38+00:00

All the kids married young because they wanted to bang.

They moved to Flagstaff for the show. They knew that content was gonna be stale if they stayed in Vegas.

I actually liked Kody and agreed with many things he said for the 1st 10 seasons. He was the voice of reason. I think hes a psycho now and fame got to him.

Leon is a spoiled brat and my least favorite.

Careful_Ambassador87 · 2023-03-23T15:58:23+00:00

Unpopular opinion! I don’t think Kody was abusive when he tried to teach Truely how to ride a bike.

In fact, in that scene, he actually struck me as a recognizable, normal dad whose patience is wearing thin but who just wants their timid child to conquer her fears and enjoy one of life’s great activities: bike riding. 🚴

YogaBeth · 2023-03-23T21:51:47+00:00

I think Robyn has been assigned a lot of blame that just isn’t fair. I don’t even like her. But I don’t think she came into the family with malicious intentions. If anyone deserves blame, it’s Meri. And of course, Kody.

Expand__ · 2023-03-24T08:41:31+00:00

Answering your question, unpopular opinion. Was Christine actually part of the catalyst of the demise of this family I wonder.

Could she not handle not being the last wife anymore that led her in to multiple tantrums and her self described needy behaviour, all while Complaining about kody at every turn , Including in the tell all cameras. Would they still have been a family jf Christine could learn to handle not being the last wife anymore ?

I hear people say that they women were young and perhaps felt this is what was expected of them or pressured …but kody was young and inexperienced too….. everyone was on board and figuring things out , and I think kody actually did a lot more to try and resolve issues in the whole Family and his seperate relationships. Going to therapy and it NEVER seemed enough for Christine . As kody said , without Plural marriage , they wouldn’t even be together …. It’s not Kodys fault that Christine didn’t know how to “have a voice “ and that she “went along with things” perhaps this is who he thought she was ? It sounds codependent to me and I personally believe codependent people are very manipulative in their own way because they don’t know how to get their needs met by being honest or as a “bitch” as Christine said ..she didn’t want to rock the boat and yet went to therapy and could have gotten help with her communication instead of wanting all the change to come from kody : I have more to say but that’s it for now since I anticipate people will jsut thumb me down instead of interacting.

AbbreviationsDue7794 · 2023-03-23T15:31:51+00:00

All of the kids are kind of terrible.

JoseMachismo · 2023-03-23T15:45:01+00:00

Sammy Hagar shouldn't have traded being in Van Halen for a bunch of wives.

bobbitybobbit · 2023-03-23T17:12:16+00:00

I’m also coming around on Meri. To see how awful Kody is to her & right to her face—I only feel for her

ninnibear · 2023-03-23T17:44:36+00:00

Christine and Janelle aren't great either, considering their MLM activities.

217EBroadwayApt4E · 2023-03-23T17:26:51+00:00

Mine is more about the fandom.

People act like they are baby birds trying to fly for the first time instead of actual adults.

Could Christine’s relationship end? Yes. Would it be sad? Sure. But I don’t judge her for what she chooses to post. I wish her every drop of happiness she can find- and if that means acting like a teenager on social media, so be it.

I’m in my mid 40s and over the past 5 years or so I’ve seen a handful of my friends go through divorce. They all married really young and had kids young. And now they are out acting like absolute fools. Dressing like teenagers, getting terrible spray tans, going on girls weekends to Vegas- pretty much out here living like 21 year olds. And you know what? Good for them. Not what I would choose- but hey. Life is short. You gotta find your joy. If you’re not hurting anyone- get it.

Some of the threads/comments about Christine are infantilizing AF, though. Has she been fairly sheltered? Sure, but she hasn’t been sealed in a vault her whole life. She went through a lot of her grieving/processing before she left the family. Whether it was COVID or Ysabel’s surgery when it hit her, she realized that it wasn’t working, it never worked, and was never going to work. And it seems like the spell was broken and she felt free, even before she told the family or left.

And you know what? Sometimes those lightbulb moments bring together things you have been dealing with/processing for a long time and it just clicks. And it’s over, and that can be extremely freeing.

And I think it’s obvious that this is the case for Christine. You can see how serene she is after she makes her choice. It doesn’t really bother her regardless of what Kody throws at her. She just lets him rage. He can’t hurt her anymore. He can only hurt her kids, and that’s all she cares about. She’s absolutely focused on the future. She doesn’t get drawn into the petty bullshit. She isn’t trying to hurt anyone. She is just ready to move on.

So by the time she met David I think she was ready for him. It feels fast to us, but she has been lonely for decades. She tried so hard to believe in the principle and while she wasn’t perfect, she did try to shove herself into the perfect Sister Wife box. And when she finally realized it was that system that was broken, not her, she just found her peace.

So do I get what people mean when they cringe? Sure. But what she’s going through is very tame for a newly divorced woman who was married young and/or in an abusive marriage. I know people who met their partner around her age and yeah- things tend to move fast from the outside, but often times they have better outcomes than younger relationships. And even if she does get her heart broken, she will survive and live through it.

But she’s a whole, grown ass woman who has been through a lot and knows what she wants. Some of the comments on these subs act like she’s a baby giraffe trying to walk for the first time ever or something. I don’t get it.

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