Kody Brown’s ex-wives have long considered Robyn Brown to be his strongest relationship. But in a recent episode of “Sister Wives,” he shared that he once considered leaving her amid struggles in their marriage.
The father of 18 made the confession in the April 27 episode of “Sister Wives” while discussing the impact his breakups with his first three wives had on his marriage with Robyn Brown, his fourth wife.
“Because I’d been in plural marriage for so long and it was a sole focus of marriage for me, when we failed at it, I was sabotaging myself,” he said in a confessional interview.
“There were days, unfair to Robyn, that I thought about just walking away from our relationship too. And that was just because I was so broken, I became self-destructive.”
Kody Brown was once married to Meri, Janelle, Christine and Robyn Brown and maintained a plural family with 18 children. His breakup with Christine Brown in 2021 ushered in a period of discord in his plural family. His marriages with Janelle and Meri Brown later ended.
Throughout Season 19 of “Sister Wives,” Kody and Robyn Brown have spoken candidly about the new monogamous dynamic in their relationship. Kody Brown has also said he wouldn’t consider polygamy again.
During the latest episode of the TLC series, Robyn Brown asked her husband how he was feeling about monogamy. He replied, “At peace.”
“And I’m sad because the difficulties of the past three years, I feel like have affected us. I want to apologize for the dark space I went through and how it harmed you because it wasn’t fair to you,” he said.
Kody Brown continued, explaining why he misdirected his anger towards Robyn Brown.
“Because I was angry, you were withdrawing from me. And because you were withdrawing from me, I was experiencing not just the anger from the rejection and the anger from our failures in plural marriage and everything that I was experiencing there — it was causing me to literally have bad thoughts about us,” he said.
Robyn Brown said she understood why her husband had difficulty processing the end of his other three marriages, but observed he had been “very, very angry.”
“I’m sorry to you. I’m sorry to them,” he replied.
In a confessional interview, Kody Brown said he “failed to recognize what a struggle (plural marriage) would be for my wives.”
He also acknowledged his feelings for Meri, Janelle and Christine, which he spent many episodes denying.
“I tried to convince myself that I did this on purpose because I didn’t love them. As much as I said I hated them or that I didn’t love them, I loved them. This situation, what we experienced, is over. If it could be friendly, I would be very happy,” he said.
Back in his conversation with Robyn Brown, Kody Brown told his wife he’s happy that they’re only married to each other now.
“I’m very pleased and happy at this point from the experience that I’ve had to be in a monogamous marriage with you,” he said.
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