what is your unpopular sister wives opinion?

Kledinger · 2023-09-16T23:16:30+00:00

The three OG wives actually could be good friends but they were all pretty toxic toward each other because Kody manipulated them into thinking they were all out to get each other.

Booksonly666 · 2023-09-16T23:50:54+00:00

In the first few seasons I genuinely thought kody was a good husband and father who was trying his best

sunnybcg · 2023-09-16T23:14:39+00:00

Robyn’s isn’t an evil mastermind who had a grand plan of breaking up the family. She’s an incredibly selfish woman — who likely has an undiagnosed mental illness and a shopping addiction — who doesn’t know how to be a team player and only looks out for her own needs.

Sneacler67 · 2023-09-17T00:41:04+00:00

I think that Robyn is also being treated poorly by Kody, but she won’t say or do anything about it.

Background-Throat736 · 2023-09-16T23:08:31+00:00

The way they announce pregnancies is annoying

cubemissy · 2023-09-16T23:03:32+00:00

In the first season of two, Robyn looked pretty to me. It’s the sour expressions over the years that put me off.

Background-Throat736 · 2023-09-16T23:06:09+00:00

Maddie shouldn’t have had a home birth after Axel

CaterpillarWitch · 2023-09-16T23:42:05+00:00

They ALL over-bought in Vegas. If the show had been canceled a year or two later, they would have lost most, if not all 4. It was insanely dumb to buy all those large houses.

Janelle is not logical. I think it was a defense mechanism, and possibly used as a manipulation tactic, as well. She's also not good with money.

The family was doomed whether or not Robyn joined. Kody has not changed in recent years, he's always been terrible, but was better at hiding it.

Ok-Cow-9907 · 2023-09-16T23:12:49+00:00

I don't think any of the wives (including Robyn) are who they would genuinely be if they were not being emotionally, mentally, and financially, abused.

I think a lot of their reactions and behaviors can be attributed to manipulation from their husband, and I think they are so caught up in surviving being abused by a narcissist that they don't /won't even realize that they have done terrible things or are being terrible people until they get out of there.

LatterConfidence1 · 2023-09-16T23:55:19+00:00

I don’t mind Meri’s hair.

Wordvomitfordays · 2023-09-16T23:25:21+00:00

Sometimes viewers forget this is a real family and not characters on TV show.

Subterranean44 · 2023-09-16T23:21:48+00:00

Christine participated in the terrible parenting. Not that unpopular though.

littleoldladyinashoe · 2023-09-17T00:34:00+00:00

Every adult in the family has very low emotional intelligence, and every one of them is/ was a negligent parent.

destanyskye · 2023-09-16T23:02:21+00:00

Kody seemed like an attentive and genuine dad in the beginning

vtsunshine83 · 2023-09-17T02:10:00+00:00

Christine and Janelle aren’t the awesome moms a lot of people think they are.

They definitely put Kody over their children. Only recently they have become their children’s champions.

The excessive moving on Kody’s whims, not standing up for their kids.

All that moving really hits me. My family moved a lot when I was little. New schools, new teachers, new kids. It was horrible! Why the heck didn’t the moms, all the moms, say, “no” to this? I think Christine was home-schooling but what about friends? Activities and sports? Packing their stuff so often then unpacking. Did they ever feel attached to a room? A house?

continuum88 · 2023-09-17T00:13:51+00:00

Meri and Kody are end game, they just don’t know it yet.

RomeIn3Days · 2023-09-17T00:35:07+00:00

All the "OMG THEY ARE LAUNDERING MONEY IN ART!!!1!!one!!" posts this past week are driving me nuts. Vladmir Kush signed limited edition giclees are expensive. Unsigned are not. I could get the exact same "Behind the Trees" painting print for $150-250, depending on size. (I checked.) Yes, frames cost more, but not up to the $6k range that keeps getting reposted.

Just because someone reverse image searched and found the artist's website with the expensive options does not mean that's what they have hanging on their walls. Usually redditors here give well-reasoned arguments, but this is not one of those. There are so many reasons to hate Kody and Robyn. We should really focus on those and not made up BS that just give ammunition to the Robyn apologists out there that Reddit is just full of toxicity and irrational diatribes.

Sorry guys, but I had to get that off my chest!

DukeESauceJR · 2023-09-16T22:58:32+00:00

Ari's head is flat meaning they didn't roll her or do anything when she was a baby except leave her laying there. That's a rilly big dill the nanny should have done it Edited for spelling

Lilrooster91 · 2023-09-17T00:27:26+00:00

The kids are an excuse for the wives too.

WickedHappyHeather · 2023-09-17T05:30:15+00:00

My unpopular opinion Is that Christine was prejudice towards monogamous people for decades…almost hateful.

littleoldladyinashoe · 2023-09-17T00:28:40+00:00

Janelle's passive aggressive behavior is just as toxic as the other adults' toxic behaviors. Not sure why no one notices that.

gigiboyc · 2023-09-16T23:17:15+00:00

Meri is my fav one. Jenelle used to be my fav but after a while she talks too much about being “logical” like babe don’t tell me ur logical show me ur logic. It’s the same vibe as someone saying they are honest

Btyflycandy · 2023-09-17T02:00:00+00:00

Janelle isn’t as smart as she wants to be viewed, besides the mlm “what does Janelle do”?, she left real estate in Vegas. Why does everybody thinking she is the big earner? Also janelle and Kody has some romantically feelings toward each other, they had 6 kids and Janelle gave birth first out of the wives, he enjoyed getting his pencil wet

plyglet000 · 2023-09-17T02:30:59+00:00

People forget that for the family, at least in the beginning, this was a matter of religious belief and not preferred lifestyle. Whether or not Christine/Meri/Robyn could handle polygamy...she had to in order to get to the highest degree of heaven. And it was taught to them their entire life. They didn't go to secular schools. They probably didn't have secular friends or much experience in the secular world. And, much more unpopular, the further they strayed from their religion the worse off their family got, it wasn't just Robyn entering the family. (Not saying they should've stayed in it, but it's easier to maintain polygamy when you have no choice lol)

clearshaw · 2023-09-17T01:09:58+00:00

Meri deserved a wet bar lol

JLLB7378 · 2023-09-16T22:51:22+00:00

Kody has had moments in the show that I’ve found him handsome 🫣

I’m so embarrassed to type that out lol

Dapper_Barnacle_9523 · 2023-09-17T01:09:30+00:00

Janelle isnt...as financially smart as she thought. To buy an RV sight unseen. Buy a bunch of land with others that don't work. Seeing the signs that relationships were going downhill and still sign. Move into a tiny apartment while the other sister wives have big houses. And now 50, stuck.

kxa24 · 2023-09-17T01:45:59+00:00

Janelle never loved Kody romantically and vice versa. They may have had passionate moments (they have 6 kids) but they were friends with benefits at best. And Janelle always looked out for herself first and primarily, she just lost the plot after the kids were grown.

Christine married Kody fully aware that he didn’t love her and spent their entire marriage trying to make him fall in love. She assumed he wasn’t capable of it and was proven wrong by Robyn. She was too immature for too long to face that reality.

mess-maker · 2023-09-16T23:16:44+00:00

Robyn is not some manipulation mastermind controlling everyone so she can have phenomenal cosmic powers. She manipulates to get what she wants and it’s a symptom of polygamy.

gandalfthepink08 · 2023-09-17T02:53:48+00:00

I like Kodys man bun.

Christine and David moved too fast. No way a new partner would be living with me and my pre-teen daughter in less than a year. It seems everyone’s happy but it could have gone so badly.

Janelle might be the dumbest of all since she actively chose polygamy in her 20’s. There’s no excuse unlike the other 3 who were indoctrinated since birth.

Robyn’s goal wasn’t to ruin the family. Her goal was to keep herself and her kids in Kodys good graces so she had more time and resources available to her. It sucks but I don’t blame her 🤷🏻‍♀️

People hate on Ari but Truley has similar vibes LOL

tarabletara · 2023-09-16T23:36:37+00:00

Kody is the most entertaining on the show and it literally could not survive without him. Christine and Janelle would never get a spin off

cronchick · 2023-09-17T01:49:07+00:00

Kody has flashes of insight about his own behaviour that I often agree with. But only flashes 😅

Any_Willingness_9085 · 2023-09-17T12:59:46+00:00

I think Janelle really pushes the logical thing to signal to Kody that she's not like other girls. It's performative. A truly logical person would not have agreed to half the crap situations Kody Brown led them into.

I like Meri, always have.

Janelle was no friend to Christine until very recently. She threw her under the bus multiple times.

Truely is not my favourite kid.

I don't get the Maddie hate.

I don't believe Meri was hanging around for Robyns kids, I just don't see any bond there.

I think Meri handled Leon's coming out better than I would have ever thought she would. People forget they are a fundamental cult group. Meri did well, and as far as I can tell she's the only one of Leon's parents to continue to support them.

cotdernit · 2023-09-17T13:19:01+00:00

I like Meri, and don't think she is the "scary" woman that some of the kids said she was (Maddie, I think?). There are 18 kids in that family ... there had to be a disciplinary/"bad guy" at times. I think that role fell to Meri 90% of the time. Kodys sure as heck wasn't going to parent. In the early days, Janelle seemed pretty checked out of the role at times, and I think Christine was just too in over her head most days to keep up so she probably let a lot of things slide.

pinkrose77 · 2023-09-17T00:24:57+00:00

They (wives + kody) all kind of suck in way or another lol.

Also, Finally leaving Kody in 2022, although commendable, was the absolute bare minimum and really too late for any of the OG 3’s kids to benefit from. In fact, Truley and Savannah got the rawest end of the deal from the whole situation. And I think the fans focus too much on cheering for Christine and Janelle for finally leaving Kody rather than discussing how all the upheaval and tension has affected their remaining kids that were at home.

Competitive_Intern55 · 2023-09-16T23:19:16+00:00

I think Christine wanted to be the third wife because that was the only way to basically guarantee that she was with a man who was on the top tier of eternal rewards in heaven. A man has to have 3 wives to get the maximum rewards and glory for himself and his wives. I think Christine was a really entitled and judgemental person who did not have the critical thinking skills, or the desire, to figure out the hypocrisy and inconsistencies in her own religious beliefs and behavior.

Necessary_Future_275 · 2023-09-17T01:02:05+00:00

Christine’s a “mean girl”.

callin-br · 2023-09-17T02:16:36+00:00

Christine didn't just want to be the third wife, she wanted to be the last wife. Robyn could have been a completely decent sister wife and Christine still would have a problem with her because she took that from her.

vickisfamilyvan · 2023-09-17T01:24:08+00:00

Robyn isn't an evil master manipulator, she's just one shitty dumb person in a group of shitty dumb people.

Ok-Foot-4053 · 2023-09-17T02:19:03+00:00

I’ve always found Christine to be a bit insincere and obnoxious. I hate when she repeats things. For example, “I would have done anything he wanted. Anything he wanted” while smiling.

w1ndstru8k · 2023-09-17T02:27:40+00:00

I don't care for Christine. She gives off mean girls vibes. She's nice if its beneficial to her or on her terms but she sure can throw a tantrum too. Her and Kody are not that far off in temperament.

The_BusterKeaton · 2023-09-17T00:07:25+00:00

Robyn shouldn’t get blamed as much as she does.

Kody is a grown man who makes his own decisions. Robyn is not a mastermind.

DreamsAndChains · 2023-09-17T05:47:03+00:00

Robyn isn’t an evil villainous mastermind executing devious plans to ruin everyone’s lives. Anyone who thinks that is vastly overthinking her intelligence. This woman thinks Wyoming starts with Y, has the vocabulary of a 9 year old, and botches every idiom she tries to use. She’s incredibly ditzy and low IQ, with absolutely no depth or intellect. Most the things people point to as evil/planned out conspiracies are actually just the result of her selfishness or immaturity. She isn’t playing 4D chess, she’s just being a brat and it somehow ended up working out well for her.

I.e: She didn’t enter the family with the goal of breaking them all up and keeping Kody to herself. I’d honestly be surprised if she actually had real feelings for him or a genuine desire to have him with her 24/7 at the start of all this. She just wanted a guy to financially provide for her and her children so she wouldn’t have to get a job. I’m sure she’s thrilled that he ended up falling madly in love with her and giving her special treatment over all the other wives (and the lion’s share of the family money), but I’m sure she didn’t go into this with an actual gameplan to collapse the family and steal him from them.

She didn’t have Kody divorce Meri to prevent future alimony payments or to secure equal financial rights to all properties in Kody’s name. She wouldn’t think that deeply into it. It’s all just her childish need to have the status of “legal wife” on top of “favorite wife”, and her obsessive desire to have her kids be seen as Kody’s and have them share a name and legal links with him.

She didn’t conspire to have the other wives all leave so that she could keep every Coyote Pass plot for her own children and turn it into a DABSARK commune. Because not only is she too dumb to come up with that, but I can’t picture her ever wanting to actually move there. She knows they don’t have enough money to build 5 or more houses on that property. And she wouldn’t want to downgrade her living situation at all when she’s in a million dollar McMansion right now.

She isn’t laundering family money in art. That takes a level of brains that she will never have. She’s a compulsive shopper with tacky taste and bought cheap printed copies of those ugly ass paintings, not expensive $3000 signed original canvases.

She doesn’t keep Meri close because she wants to grift money from her B&B and MLMs. Meri hasn’t been a real part of that family in ages and I can’t imagine she’s contributed any real financial support to the K&R pot in the years since she’s been exiled from the family. Robyn keeps Meri around for selfish, childish reasons just like everything else she does. It’s because being “the favorite wife” is only a thrill when there’s lower ranking wives to flex it to. Meri accepts being Robyn’s inferior, tolerates all of her bullshit, and still kisses her ass. So of course Robyn likes having her around.

And the last one applies to the other wives too. She isn’t pleading for Christine and Janelle to stay so she can squeeze more money out of them. She just wants other wives to rank over - and she knows that them leaving falls back on her and turns her into the villain. She’s fake crying on confessional cam because she doesn’t want us to think this is her fault - which it absolutely is.

TLDR: Robyn isn’t nearly smart enough to plan the conspiracies y’all theorize here. Her actions are due to selfishness and jealously, not complicated evil plots.

69chevy396 · 2023-09-17T00:12:24+00:00

I like Meri

bobbitybobbit · 2023-09-16T23:31:08+00:00

Sliding doors are ok!

tbone56er · 2023-09-16T23:15:23+00:00

I thought Kody singing to Meri at their wedding was adorable.

3rdCoastLiberal · 2023-09-17T02:28:41+00:00

Christine is not over Kody, so she shouldn’t be getting married to someone else just yet. Her constant digs at him on social media are cringey, unnecessary and shows her inability to grow up and move on. She needs therapy.

IDC if she was brainwashed for her whole life by the cult, so was Meri. I don’t see her digging at ANY of them.

It makes me question why David is marrying her and if he’s comfortable with her still seeming to need to get her digs in. Unless he’s just in it to be on tv too.

I also hate how she baits people into conversations and pulls her unsafe crap.

Meri and Janelle are way too attractive for Kody and always have been.

Meri definitely is a cheater for the catfish situation, even though I get how she fell into it.

Janelle is not the financial guru she thinks she is, but Meri actually is savvy.

Many of Janelle and Christine’s kids are brats.

Robyn isn’t an evil mastermind, she is more likely mentally ill, extremely selfish and undisciplined and I would bet the “nanny” is actually her minder, not the kids.

JenniPurr13 · 2023-09-17T00:35:14+00:00

That all the wives are manipulative in their own way, they’re just better at playing for the cameras than Robyn. There were a few times Christine tried setting up the other wives by bringing things up. And she was queen of the whole “I feel unsafe” bullshit.

heyruby · 2023-09-17T13:42:41+00:00

The 3 OG wives parentified the shit out of their oldest kids, and they are just as responsible as Kody for that.

Janelle and Christine leaving is good for them, but too little too late for their kids.

tuckhouston · 2023-09-16T23:42:00+00:00

We’re never seen Meri be as mean as Christine has been on the show

michelleyness · 2023-09-17T01:10:22+00:00

Truley could be the star of a show called kids I don't care about. With Ariella.

lol_coo · 2023-09-17T04:56:50+00:00

They ALL suck

PhoebeSmudge · 2023-09-17T01:41:06+00:00

I just realized my biggest may be unpopular opinion. They never should have moved to Flagstaff. But hey I mean Janelle and Christine. Their kids didn’t want to go and after what happened with Hunter and Vegas move, no. I’d break up with my husband before I’d force another of my children to go thru that.

BlackCatVibes7 · 2023-09-17T06:37:49+00:00

Meri was the only parent who actually parented.

The_RoyalPee · 2023-09-16T23:23:54+00:00

I don’t think literally everything Kody does is cringy, horrible or disgusting. Sometimes (especially in the old days) he really did just seem goofy and fun in a cheesy Mormon way. Working out isn’t gross. He’s taken a dark turn over the years certainly, but every little thing he does gets torn apart.

It feels like he can’t win at all — even going out to lunch with Truely and Ysabel in private recently people were dunking on him.

yrnkween · 2023-09-16T22:41:38+00:00

Kody’s curls are nice and defined.

watermelonsteven · 2023-09-16T22:53:07+00:00

Christine's reaction to the One House Proposal was the death knell of the Family Brown.

DoneDidThisGirl · 2023-09-17T03:40:32+00:00

The kids Kody has the biggest problems with are the ones that are more like him than their mother.

Harrleigh91 · 2023-09-17T01:26:08+00:00

Kody had some valid points about how Christine treated the other wives. I do think a lot of it is because of the environment that Kody cultivated among his wives, but Christine definitely had some awful moments with the other wives.

shannboss · 2023-09-16T23:19:41+00:00

I didn’t mind the man bun.

Smartestwaters · 2023-09-16T23:42:30+00:00

I secretly like all of their “common” family recipes. Janelle’s lasagne was very relatable.

Least-Fill-7277 · 2023-09-17T01:30:25+00:00

I didn't like Christine. I did feel sorry for her in the beginning when Kody was never around after Truley was born. However, her attitude toward monogamists was attrocious. She acted like she was better than monogamists because she was a polygamist. She sucked up to Meri, then, when she realized Meri was no longer the fave, started sucking up to Robyn. She ran the family statement into the ground. She was terrible to the minister when Kody and all four of his women went to make sure if the teens went to youth group they wouldn't get discriminated against. Right after the minister assured them it wouldn't happen, Christine got all weird and turned down her kids going. She acted like she wanted to be an only wife to Kody... a lot. I was shocked when she said in the restaurant before covid that she thought she was hated.

gracemary25 · 2023-09-17T04:32:19+00:00

Viewers of reality television tend to view the key players through a needlessly harsh lens that they would never apply to themselves. My hot take is that no one on the show is secretly a horrible person although Kody comes pretty close. They are all just people trying to make their way in life. I get tired of people trying to pinpoint the exact moment where someone is a Horrible Person Confirmed. Everyone makes mistakes, fucks up and hurts others in life even if they don't mean to. It's just part of existing. In addition to portraying Robyn as a mastermind, I'm seeing a lot of people talking about how secretly awful Janelle and Christine are and just..no. Why are people so fucking eager to label someone a "horrible person?" Josh Duggar is a horrible person. Christine Brown? Yeah not so much. A flawed person, for sure. But words like awful are just too far. And if someone is a mother? OML the internet suddenly becomes ten times more judgmental. I wouldn't say any of the wives are terrible mothers, they absolutely made mistakes and were negligent at times but I don't think someone should be branded a terrible parent so easily. They all clearly love their children and have at least *tried* to do right by them and maintain good relationships with them. Sometimes that's kinda all you can ask for especially when you compare to some of the other illustrious parents we have seen on TLC (I'm lookin' at you, Jim Bob Duggar and Kate Gosselin.)

Kikikididi · 2023-09-17T04:36:04+00:00

No one is conniving or planning deeply to fuck over the others, like most people they are self-centered and reactive. This is 1000x true for Kody. Also he didn't pretend the relationships were ok to keep money coming in, he pretended all was ok because he was the "4 wife guy" and can't admit failure.

ichheissekate · 2023-09-17T06:05:39+00:00

Kody, while not my cup of tea, has gotten more attractive with age.

farmadilloMom · 2023-09-17T15:53:20+00:00

I find it heartbreaking that neither Christine nor janelle invited Meri to Christmas… let alone the year or so of isolation she spent alone for Covid that nobody even knew about because they treated her as disgustingly as Kodi did - like someone just existing nearby and not a member of the family.

ooolalaluv · 2023-09-16T23:35:40+00:00

Oooo ooo ooo!!! Here we go!!!

Kody courted and married Christine while Janelle was pregnant. No one has a problem with this. People have a massive problem with him courting and marrying Robyn while Christine was pregnant. Even though it’s the same.
Janelle was Meri’s sister in law and tried to get married to Kody on Meri’s birthday. This, to me, should get way more hate than it does. Robyn’s wedding dress thing was wrong and deceitful, but imo Janelle working her way into Meri’s family as Meri’s relative is far worse.
The funds should have been divided per person, and Meri should have gotten less money. There’s no reason a family of let’s say 6 at the time should have been making do with the same money as a family of 2. Meri and Mariah clearly would’ve had a lot of extra funds, whereas the family of 1 parent and 5 kids would be barely scraping by. This isn’t how one big “fahmlee” should operate. Not fair.
The OG3 wives aren’t the bestest most prettiest faultless angels people pretend that they are. I don’t like Robyn and Kody at all (obviously, literally who would???) but disliking them doesn’t mean everyone else has to be viewed as a perfect saint who never did anything wrong.
Mykelti isn’t a “traitor” for having a relationship with her father and stepmother. Just as how we all know Janelle’s kids are not traitors to Kody for still having a relationship with Christine. Mykelti was a vulnerable teen who wasn’t getting love from her family and found it with Robyn. Whether that’s good or bad, it is what it is.
It’s weird people were getting mad at Gwen for not attacking her family enough for their liking
Half the family was not taking Covid seriously at all. I agreed with Kody on his Covid stance (and only that - he still could have been calling texting and seeing the family outside in masks and he wasn’t). But I wouldn’t have felt safe around Janelle’s boys either. Or at a gathering of 20 something people.
Everyone is more conservative than the viewers think. Gabe in fact used to post some pretty crazy alt right trad wife things apparently.
Truly and Sol and Ari (when all the same ages) were all just kids. I saw people talking about the Sol/Ari talking head very negatively. So when I actually saw the episode, I was surprised. They’re just kids? Being kids? Especially when Truley was that age, and everyone would go on and on about how funny, mature, cute, smart, etc. she is. I don’t see the difference between their talking heads all at like age 5? 😂
The hate for some of the kids on these subs is out of line. And the hate some users give to other users for not taking a super hard and aggressive stance is also out of line. Makes it not fun to discuss things.
If Christine was treated like Robyn, she wouldn’t have cared how the other 3 wives were treated. Her problem wasn’t that Kody was unfair, her problem was that she wasn’t the favorite and that he wasn’t unfair to her benefit. She wanted to be the third wife for a reason - because that’s usually the last wife. She wanted to also be the youngest wife with the youngest kids for that same reason.
Meri being catfished was cheating. People say “how is it cheating when Kody has 3 other wives?!” Well, because they agreed to that. It’s their religion. They all know. They all decided to do polygamy. Meri going online and flirting with a “guy” isn’t ok just because they’re polygamists. She should’ve just left and Kody did have a right to not want to forgive her for cheating (though of course he should have told her that and not strung her on all these years).

Elleparie · 2023-09-16T22:52:26+00:00

A 4000 sq ft home, while large is not a mansion. The Vegas homes and Robyn and Christine’s current homes, are all a little over 4000 sq ft.

JenniPurr13 · 2023-09-17T00:35:28+00:00

That all the wives are manipulative in their own way, they’re just better at playing for the cameras than Robyn. There were a few times Christine tried setting up the other wives by bringing things up. And she was queen of the whole “I feel unsafe” bullshit.

ByteAboutTown · 2023-09-17T04:21:13+00:00

All of the adults are to blame for the family falling apart. Ultimately, Kody should take the most blame because in their religion, he was supposed to be head of the family. But all of them are dishonest and performative on TV.

Meri can be really harsh and strict. She absolutely would have left the family if her catfish was real.

Janelle is quietly manipulative behind the scenes. Case in point: we never heard anything about a greenhouse, then 2 seasons ago, it's decided that the lot assignments needed to change for Janelle's green thumb. Lots of conversations were held between Kody and Janelle where Janelle's won her way.

Christine is the most two-faced. She was struggling the most from the beginning of the show, but put on the happy face more than others. She told Kody she didn't want to be the main caregiver anymore, then complained that Robyn didn't ask her to take care of the kids. I have no doubt that Christine behind doors is very different.

Robyn isn't deliberately manipulative, but is very selfish. She puts her needs and her kids' needs above all others in the family. But Robyn didn't set out to break-up the family.

RedditSoleLouboutins · 2023-09-17T13:35:55+00:00

Christine can't complain about Kody and Robyn kissing before marriage.

When Christine and I got engaged, she told me she wouldn’t kiss me until we were at the altar. After we were married, she realized she had made a mistake and made me promise that if I married again, I’d kiss my next wife before we said our vows. So I took Robyn’s face in my hands and kissed her. -Becoming Sister Wives Page 82

Robyn's comment at the s16 Tell-All about how she has seen Kody love wives through weight gain, stretch marks, etc wasn't about just the other wives, she was also referring to herself She had also gained weight and had talked about having stretch marks.

On our first date, over lunch, Robyn and I confessed everything about ourselves to each other—stretch marks, smelly feet, bad habits. We wanted to get all the silly stuff out of the way. -Becoming Sister Wives Page 80

Christine is equally responsible for Truely's Kidney failure/ hospital stay as Kody.
Janelle and Christine weren't always best buddies. It became easier to become friends once Kody was out of the equation because it removed the jealousies and the competitive aspect that naturally exists within polygamy. I do think their friendship is very genuine now but I don't believe that the friendship wasn't at least loosely based on shading Kody as well.
Robyn seemed genuine in the beginning and did seem to make the most efforts in terms of her sisterwife relationships. Although I don't think she has needed a nanny all these years, I understand not feeling 100% comfortable having a sisterwife who clearly doesn't like you, in charge of your children's care all day. Christine always gets sympathy in this situation like poor Christine, Robyn didn't let her care for her kids, but Would you want someone who clearly dislikes you watching yours? That would be a hard no from me. Again, needing a nanny for years isn't the answer though either and is unfair.
Meri's catfishing incident was cheating.
Meri wanting the same "allowance" as everyone else was just selfishness and being greedy disguised as infertility victimization. They weren't trying to punish her for not being as fertile- in fact, the less kids a fellow sisterwife has the more resources there are available for yours- they were making good arguments for how 5 or 6 children costs far more than 1 child.
Janelle skirts by as the laid back wife who isn't dramatic or needy but I think she was probably in Kodys ear more than we realize.
Kody isn't 100% responsible for the problems with the marriages
Christine, as much as I like her now, was more needy and complained a lot and sometimes I couldn't blame Kody or the other wives for not wanting to be around her when she was like that.
The "everything is all Kodys fault" and "everything is all Robyn's fault" discussions here get old and boring and doesn't allow for real honest discussion or differing perspectives to be discussed as freely.
Robyn's House is indeed cluttered but no one talks about Janelles messy apartment. She has things in storage, she could put more things in storage instead of having her and Savanah still living in the chaos of boxes and things everywhere.
Kodys bad relationships with his adult children are indeed his responsibility....but if Janelle doesn't want to be the go-between person responsible for communicating things between Dad + her kids like she claimed, then why was she quick to explain they had to apologize to he and Robyn or they weren't welcomed to come for Xmas, but never updated at any point afterwards to tell them they were welcomed, didn't need to apologize and just a conversation between them was what Kody wanted? If she was sure to relay the first message, why not ever relay the 2nd? Either relay all messages or relay nothing.
Kody seemed to be really in love with Meri early on in the show. I don't think things had already totally fallen apart between them when the show started like some claim. Problems or issues in all the marriages at the start- yes. His and Meri's over at the start- I don't think so.

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