1 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:06,689 The past year has been a tumultuous one 2 00:00:06,689 --> 00:00:08,000 for the Brown family. 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:09,586 I don't know how you do it, 4 00:00:10,379 --> 00:00:11,827 because he's not who you married. 5 00:00:11,827 --> 00:00:13,379 He's not who I married. 6 00:00:13,379 --> 00:00:15,620 I don't want Robyn to see this. 7 00:00:15,620 --> 00:00:19,068 I don't want her to know how dark I've gotten. 8 00:00:19,068 --> 00:00:20,793 From explosive arguments... 9 00:00:20,793 --> 00:00:21,827 But I've... 10 00:00:21,827 --> 00:00:23,310 Shut your [bleep] mouth and let me talk to you 11 00:00:23,310 --> 00:00:24,172 for a minute. 12 00:00:24,172 --> 00:00:25,172 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 13 00:00:25,172 --> 00:00:26,068 - No... - No. 14 00:00:26,068 --> 00:00:27,000 you stay and talk. 15 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:27,896 I'm done listening to you. 16 00:00:27,896 --> 00:00:29,344 you. 17 00:00:30,586 --> 00:00:32,310 To painful revelations. 18 00:00:32,310 --> 00:00:34,413 So sometimes you still hate me? 19 00:00:34,413 --> 00:00:38,517 In my heart, I just never wanna see her again. 20 00:00:38,517 --> 00:00:40,206 I'm not married to him anymore. 21 00:00:40,206 --> 00:00:41,724 So freaking awesome. 22 00:00:41,724 --> 00:00:44,068 With life-changing consequences. 23 00:00:45,689 --> 00:00:46,965 You and me. 24 00:00:50,793 --> 00:00:52,689 He said, don't you understand, Meri, 25 00:00:52,689 --> 00:00:54,793 this is never going to happen. 26 00:01:01,413 --> 00:01:05,758 You want something that we can't have together. 27 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:08,103 Screw him. 28 00:01:08,103 --> 00:01:09,448 He's not worth it. 29 00:01:13,275 --> 00:01:15,206 Over the next four hours, 30 00:01:15,206 --> 00:01:17,896 I'm sitting down with Kody, 31 00:01:17,896 --> 00:01:22,965 Meri, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn, 32 00:01:23,793 --> 00:01:25,482 to talk about some of the biggest 33 00:01:25,482 --> 00:01:28,896 and most dramatic moments of their lives. 34 00:01:28,896 --> 00:01:30,517 - You made this... - Accountability. 35 00:01:30,517 --> 00:01:33,275 ...about all these other problems that we have 36 00:01:33,275 --> 00:01:34,172 that we can't sweep under. 37 00:01:34,172 --> 00:01:35,172 - I did not. - This became... 38 00:01:35,172 --> 00:01:36,275 - Yes, you did. - I did not. I did not. 39 00:01:36,275 --> 00:01:38,275 - You're an alcoholic. - I did not. 40 00:01:38,275 --> 00:01:39,379 Have you guys fought like this before? 41 00:01:39,379 --> 00:01:42,310 No, no, I don't think we've ever fought like this. 42 00:01:42,310 --> 00:01:44,103 That moment I was thinking to myself, 43 00:01:44,103 --> 00:01:46,068 I don't ever wanna talk to Janelle again. 44 00:01:46,068 --> 00:01:48,379 You have six kids. 45 00:01:48,379 --> 00:01:49,586 You know, that's... 46 00:01:50,689 --> 00:01:51,827 Sorry. 47 00:01:51,827 --> 00:01:53,827 That's worth fighting for. 48 00:01:53,827 --> 00:01:56,310 Were you in love with Meri when you married her? 49 00:01:56,310 --> 00:01:58,793 I told her I loved her and I chose to love her. 50 00:01:58,793 --> 00:02:02,275 You should have told me, because I'm still sitting here 51 00:02:02,275 --> 00:02:04,482 holding on to the idea that maybe 52 00:02:04,482 --> 00:02:06,172 you might get your head outta your butt. 53 00:02:06,172 --> 00:02:07,413 Meri did ask her to be there, but... 54 00:02:07,413 --> 00:02:10,068 I know. It's because Robyn says that she can speak Kody. 55 00:02:10,068 --> 00:02:11,275 And I'm like [bleep]. 56 00:02:11,275 --> 00:02:12,413 Sorry. Okay. 57 00:02:12,413 --> 00:02:14,620 Sorry. I'm gonna be nice. No, I'm not. 58 00:02:14,620 --> 00:02:16,206 Well, Kody can speak for himself. 59 00:02:16,206 --> 00:02:17,724 He's a grown ass man. 60 00:02:17,724 --> 00:02:20,413 He would ask me to do things and ask me to be a certain way 61 00:02:20,413 --> 00:02:22,586 or ask me to fix a certain situation, 62 00:02:22,586 --> 00:02:24,689 but it's not good enough. 63 00:02:24,689 --> 00:02:27,103 They're trash talking me because I'm guilty 64 00:02:27,103 --> 00:02:30,000 of not loving them. 65 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:31,620 Is he sabotaging your relationship? 66 00:02:31,620 --> 00:02:32,862 He tries to. 67 00:02:33,586 --> 00:02:35,896 I have to stop him all the time. 68 00:02:35,896 --> 00:02:37,103 You can't talk about Robyn. 69 00:02:37,103 --> 00:02:38,793 She's the one that's loyal to me. 70 00:02:38,793 --> 00:02:41,482 So if you had any kind of a disagreement, 71 00:02:41,482 --> 00:02:42,586 you weren't safe. 72 00:02:42,586 --> 00:02:45,172 I don't think Christine knows Robyn at all. 73 00:02:45,172 --> 00:02:47,517 Nah. She was a sister wife. 74 00:02:47,517 --> 00:02:51,068 She'll probably, and I hope, be a very good wife for David. 75 00:02:51,068 --> 00:02:52,482 - Have you met David? - Yes. 76 00:02:52,482 --> 00:02:53,896 Well, I think he's great. 77 00:02:53,896 --> 00:02:54,827 I'm engaged. 78 00:02:54,827 --> 00:02:57,482 I'm getting married to the love of my life. 79 00:02:57,482 --> 00:02:59,517 Christine has to destroy my character 80 00:02:59,517 --> 00:03:02,172 or David doesn't feel like he can marry her 81 00:03:02,172 --> 00:03:03,896 because she left a good man. 82 00:03:03,896 --> 00:03:06,448 Sorry, I don't know how to let this go. 83 00:03:07,310 --> 00:03:09,482 And this isn't me just being dramatic. 84 00:03:09,482 --> 00:03:10,413 Thank you, Christine. 85 00:03:10,413 --> 00:03:12,379 Could I just be me sometimes with Kody? 86 00:03:12,379 --> 00:03:13,344 No. 87 00:03:13,344 --> 00:03:15,000 But it isn't it not about him hearing you? 88 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,172 Isn't it about you being heard? 89 00:03:18,275 --> 00:03:20,172 Oh, my voice will be heard. 90 00:03:20,172 --> 00:03:21,793 I will no longer be silenced. 91 00:03:23,827 --> 00:03:26,655 This is Sister Wives: One on One. 92 00:03:38,586 --> 00:03:39,689 Today, I'm getting ready 93 00:03:39,689 --> 00:03:41,931 for our one-on-one interview. 94 00:03:41,931 --> 00:03:44,620 I am feeling nauseous 95 00:03:44,620 --> 00:03:47,241 and not feeling very good right now. 96 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,000 It's where we go and, like, tell it how it is. 97 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,793 People really speak their mind 98 00:03:54,793 --> 00:03:57,275 and some of the things they say, I'm like, wow. 99 00:03:57,275 --> 00:03:59,034 I didn't know. Wow. 100 00:04:01,379 --> 00:04:02,793 There were so many times in Flagstaff 101 00:04:02,793 --> 00:04:04,482 that I was sad. 102 00:04:04,482 --> 00:04:06,103 And every time I go back, it's like, 103 00:04:06,103 --> 00:04:09,172 I have to get back into that mentality again 104 00:04:09,172 --> 00:04:10,310 and everything. 105 00:04:10,310 --> 00:04:12,655 And it's just... It's really difficult. 106 00:04:13,793 --> 00:04:15,310 Well, I'm usually kind of 107 00:04:15,310 --> 00:04:18,620 really, really low-key, just easy. 108 00:04:18,620 --> 00:04:20,379 The nerves don't get to me much 109 00:04:20,379 --> 00:04:21,517 until I'm there 110 00:04:21,517 --> 00:04:24,448 and then all of a sudden I just get terribly nervous. 111 00:04:31,172 --> 00:04:34,172 I am not looking forward to going back at all. 112 00:04:34,172 --> 00:04:36,310 There's other people I don't need to see, 113 00:04:36,310 --> 00:04:38,103 so it's just hard. 114 00:04:38,103 --> 00:04:40,931 It's really, um, emotionally draining. 115 00:05:06,896 --> 00:05:09,689 You know, you make choices when you're young 116 00:05:09,689 --> 00:05:11,896 and you do everything you can 117 00:05:12,482 --> 00:05:15,896 to do good by those choices. 118 00:05:16,827 --> 00:05:18,413 You know, you get older 119 00:05:18,413 --> 00:05:21,034 and you don't like those choices. 120 00:05:21,586 --> 00:05:23,689 And, uh, you know, like, 121 00:05:23,689 --> 00:05:25,655 it's been basically the breakup song. 122 00:05:27,103 --> 00:05:28,103 Hey, Kody. 123 00:05:28,103 --> 00:05:29,172 Hey, how's it going? 124 00:05:29,172 --> 00:05:30,000 It's good to see you. 125 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:31,206 Hey, good to see you. 126 00:05:31,206 --> 00:05:32,482 Are you ready for, uh, 127 00:05:32,482 --> 00:05:35,000 new, uh, variety show of Sister Wives? 128 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:36,000 I don't know about that. 129 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:37,172 With all that singing, and dancing, and a... 130 00:05:37,172 --> 00:05:38,931 And a little bit of comedy? 131 00:05:38,931 --> 00:05:40,517 If this turned into a variety show, 132 00:05:40,517 --> 00:05:41,724 like what would be your theme song? 133 00:05:41,724 --> 00:05:44,379 Um, I can see clearly now the rain is gone. 134 00:05:44,379 --> 00:05:46,724 Today, I'm feeling We Will Rock You by Queen. 135 00:05:46,724 --> 00:05:47,482 - Ooh. - Yeah. 136 00:05:47,482 --> 00:05:50,896 All the Single Ladies. 137 00:05:50,896 --> 00:05:52,793 Put your hands up. 138 00:05:52,793 --> 00:05:54,655 Maybe. 139 00:05:55,275 --> 00:05:56,517 - I like that. - I mean... 140 00:05:56,517 --> 00:05:57,689 Who said you weren't good? 141 00:05:57,689 --> 00:05:59,413 it's appropriate. 142 00:05:59,413 --> 00:06:01,000 Losing My Religion. 143 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:02,241 Oh. 144 00:06:04,586 --> 00:06:06,000 That is very telling. 145 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,793 You know it's not about religion, right? 146 00:06:08,793 --> 00:06:10,689 It's about unrequited love. 147 00:06:10,689 --> 00:06:12,689 - Mmm-hmm. - Yeah. 148 00:06:12,689 --> 00:06:15,793 But I like the theme of losing your religion, you know, 149 00:06:15,793 --> 00:06:18,586 in a sense that, you know, you can find faith 150 00:06:18,586 --> 00:06:22,275 and still lose your religion, but, you know, you gotta... 151 00:06:22,275 --> 00:06:24,896 Some people have to hit rock bottom to find their faith. 152 00:06:24,896 --> 00:06:25,965 Are you at that place? 153 00:06:25,965 --> 00:06:28,379 I've hit... I don't think I've hit rock bottom. 154 00:06:28,379 --> 00:06:30,172 There's things I still have, uh, 155 00:06:31,586 --> 00:06:34,517 you know, like, emotional control over. 156 00:06:34,517 --> 00:06:36,482 I'm not as angry as I was before. 157 00:06:37,103 --> 00:06:38,310 Um, yeah, a lot changes. 158 00:06:38,310 --> 00:06:39,586 Divorce messes with you... 159 00:06:39,586 --> 00:06:41,172 - Mmm-hmm. - ...very much. 160 00:06:41,172 --> 00:06:45,758 How has everything played out from the last time I met you? 161 00:06:48,310 --> 00:06:51,862 Um, I... 162 00:06:53,068 --> 00:06:55,586 It's been a sort of an unraveling, 163 00:06:55,586 --> 00:06:57,586 just something about the... 164 00:06:58,482 --> 00:07:00,482 struggles in the family 165 00:07:00,482 --> 00:07:02,275 just made me kind of go... 166 00:07:03,586 --> 00:07:05,103 is this what real life is like? 167 00:07:05,103 --> 00:07:07,000 Is this what real marriage is like? 168 00:07:08,482 --> 00:07:11,206 Is this how it is? 169 00:07:11,206 --> 00:07:15,034 There's, um... I don't even know how to... 170 00:07:15,793 --> 00:07:16,896 Um, I've kind of come... 171 00:07:16,896 --> 00:07:18,931 I've been thinking about this like all I do. 172 00:07:18,931 --> 00:07:22,000 You know, when I'm not working, it's on my mind. 173 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:24,000 It's rolling through and I'm replaying 174 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,689 and rehashing discussions and rehashing my life 175 00:07:27,689 --> 00:07:31,275 and how I started this family out and everything. 176 00:07:31,275 --> 00:07:33,172 I mean, this is what I've gone back on. 177 00:07:33,172 --> 00:07:35,655 I've gone back to my past marriage. 178 00:07:37,931 --> 00:07:40,551 This experience required that I have more than one wife. 179 00:07:41,413 --> 00:07:42,896 And so I come into this. 180 00:07:42,896 --> 00:07:44,068 I... 181 00:07:44,068 --> 00:07:46,931 Meri and I get married and, um, 182 00:07:46,931 --> 00:07:48,793 and I get married again to Janelle 183 00:07:48,793 --> 00:07:50,793 and I get married again to Christine. 184 00:07:50,793 --> 00:07:52,482 And I looked back 185 00:07:52,482 --> 00:07:57,413 and because I was so anxious to be living the principle 186 00:07:57,413 --> 00:07:58,551 of plural marriage, 187 00:07:59,379 --> 00:08:01,689 that I was not vetting who I was marrying 188 00:08:01,689 --> 00:08:03,896 to be compatible with me. 189 00:08:03,896 --> 00:08:06,551 The blame lays on one thing and one thing only. 190 00:08:07,206 --> 00:08:08,413 If you're gonna marry 191 00:08:08,413 --> 00:08:09,482 and you're gonna marry for eternity, 192 00:08:09,482 --> 00:08:12,344 you should start out in love. 193 00:08:12,793 --> 00:08:14,379 I... 194 00:08:14,379 --> 00:08:15,689 I thought it was acceptable. 195 00:08:15,689 --> 00:08:17,103 I thought I could make up the difference. 196 00:08:17,103 --> 00:08:19,310 I thought everything in this situation 197 00:08:19,310 --> 00:08:21,000 with all three wives. 198 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:23,689 This isn't about being like in love. 199 00:08:23,689 --> 00:08:25,310 This is about growing a family together. 200 00:08:25,310 --> 00:08:27,172 We love each other. We're required. 201 00:08:27,172 --> 00:08:29,379 The gospel requires us to love each other. 202 00:08:29,379 --> 00:08:33,275 But I never really actually, um, suffered in a... 203 00:08:33,275 --> 00:08:36,103 in a fit of passion in this place. 204 00:08:36,103 --> 00:08:38,689 How do you feel you started out with Robyn then? 205 00:08:38,689 --> 00:08:40,000 Was it different? 206 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:41,275 - Yeah, it was. - Were you different? 207 00:08:41,275 --> 00:08:42,724 Well, I fell in love with Robyn. 208 00:08:42,724 --> 00:08:44,586 I never fell in love with anybody else. 209 00:08:44,586 --> 00:08:48,413 I was just choosing to be in that covenant 210 00:08:48,413 --> 00:08:50,793 of love with them. 211 00:08:50,793 --> 00:08:54,206 Was it just spiritual witness or were you in love with him 212 00:08:54,206 --> 00:08:56,172 when you got married to him? 213 00:08:56,172 --> 00:08:58,206 I was in love with the idea of him. 214 00:08:58,206 --> 00:09:00,172 We really did start to know each other better 215 00:09:00,172 --> 00:09:01,413 after we were married. 216 00:09:01,413 --> 00:09:04,103 I do think I loved him as much as I could. 217 00:09:04,103 --> 00:09:06,793 And we became much more in love as the years went by, 218 00:09:06,793 --> 00:09:07,724 - I think. - Mmm-hmm. 219 00:09:07,724 --> 00:09:09,827 Um, we did get married young 220 00:09:09,827 --> 00:09:11,620 and I don't think that that's necessarily a problem, 221 00:09:11,620 --> 00:09:14,000 because I've seen many couples that navigate that. 222 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:15,724 - Mmm-hmm. - But somewhere along the line, 223 00:09:15,724 --> 00:09:18,241 we failed to navigate that, I think. 224 00:09:19,103 --> 00:09:21,275 It's interesting because Kody had said that, 225 00:09:21,275 --> 00:09:24,793 you know, um, that he fell in love with Robyn 226 00:09:24,793 --> 00:09:27,275 and had a very deep connection... 227 00:09:27,275 --> 00:09:29,172 - Mmm-hmm. - ...one that he, like, 228 00:09:29,172 --> 00:09:31,172 had never experienced in his life before. 229 00:09:31,172 --> 00:09:32,413 Mmm-hmm. Mmm-hmm. 230 00:09:32,413 --> 00:09:37,275 Um, did you ever have that kind of connection with him? 231 00:09:37,275 --> 00:09:41,000 You know, I think as far as my understanding, yeah, we did. 232 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,103 It was a very functional marriage. 233 00:09:43,103 --> 00:09:46,206 But now he's grown and changed and I've grown and changed. 234 00:09:46,206 --> 00:09:48,827 And I think maybe he does have more affinity 235 00:09:48,827 --> 00:09:51,103 or more connection with Robyn and that's okay. 236 00:09:51,103 --> 00:09:53,827 But I think it's unfair to judge our early years 237 00:09:53,827 --> 00:09:55,896 with that same perspective, 238 00:09:55,896 --> 00:09:58,586 because he was not the guy back then he is now. 239 00:09:58,586 --> 00:10:00,586 But it's kind of like he says he entered the covenant 240 00:10:00,586 --> 00:10:02,000 with you and Christine 241 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:05,275 in a different manner than he did with Robyn. 242 00:10:05,275 --> 00:10:08,206 I get... I think it's just... I think it's perspective. 243 00:10:08,206 --> 00:10:11,517 I mean, look, I don't think we had this grand passion 244 00:10:11,517 --> 00:10:13,103 and maybe Robyn is his grand passion. 245 00:10:13,103 --> 00:10:14,689 I don't know. 246 00:10:14,689 --> 00:10:19,000 Um, but what we had was good. 247 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,689 I met Robyn and there was a safety and a vulnerability 248 00:10:22,689 --> 00:10:24,793 that I had never experienced in my life. 249 00:10:25,689 --> 00:10:30,000 And I met her and I started weeping for joy 250 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:31,793 and didn't stop for months. 251 00:10:31,793 --> 00:10:34,689 Because you were emotionally vulnerable enough 252 00:10:34,689 --> 00:10:36,724 to receive Robyn's love? 253 00:10:36,724 --> 00:10:40,103 No, I don't know if... We can't qualify it like that. 254 00:10:40,103 --> 00:10:43,793 Let's just say the two of us had a click, 255 00:10:43,793 --> 00:10:45,896 whereas I was working for years 256 00:10:45,896 --> 00:10:47,724 with these others to get that... 257 00:10:47,724 --> 00:10:50,000 To get this place, never had the click. 258 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:51,206 Could never go to Janelle and say, 259 00:10:51,206 --> 00:10:52,931 "Hey, you're not vulnerable with me," 260 00:10:52,931 --> 00:10:54,862 because I didn't know. 261 00:10:55,517 --> 00:10:57,689 There's a struggle in communication. 262 00:10:57,689 --> 00:11:00,689 There's a struggle with criticism or whatever it is. 263 00:11:00,689 --> 00:11:06,000 There's just this place and where we're at 264 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:09,586 with three wives and me and the kids. 265 00:11:09,586 --> 00:11:12,379 And we're in kind of a... 266 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:16,482 sort of a constant little civil war 267 00:11:16,482 --> 00:11:18,379 with where this constant 268 00:11:18,379 --> 00:11:20,172 psychic tension is always there. 269 00:11:20,172 --> 00:11:21,620 Well, he said he fell in love with you 270 00:11:21,620 --> 00:11:23,827 because he could finally be his full self. 271 00:11:23,827 --> 00:11:26,068 He could finally be vulnerable and love you. 272 00:11:26,068 --> 00:11:27,103 - And that was... - Yeah. 273 00:11:27,103 --> 00:11:28,689 the connection that he was really searching for, 274 00:11:28,689 --> 00:11:31,896 that he did not have with the three other women. 275 00:11:31,896 --> 00:11:33,275 - See, and I didn't know that. - Yeah. 276 00:11:33,275 --> 00:11:36,689 I did not know that until, like, just recently. 277 00:11:36,689 --> 00:11:37,793 Really? 278 00:11:37,793 --> 00:11:41,172 I did not know that... 279 00:11:41,172 --> 00:11:42,103 and I... 280 00:11:42,103 --> 00:11:43,827 And it still makes me wonder because I wonder 281 00:11:43,827 --> 00:11:45,793 if it's just the rewriting of history 282 00:11:45,793 --> 00:11:47,344 because there seems to be a lot of that. 283 00:11:48,586 --> 00:11:53,000 When your husband is saying he wept for joy for months 284 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,103 because he had found you... 285 00:11:55,103 --> 00:11:56,896 But I don't think he was saying that to them. 286 00:11:56,896 --> 00:11:57,827 Is he saying... 287 00:11:57,827 --> 00:11:58,896 - No. - Okay. 288 00:11:58,896 --> 00:11:59,931 But that's just how he was feeling. 289 00:11:59,931 --> 00:12:01,103 Okay. 290 00:12:01,103 --> 00:12:03,068 So when a person is feeling that kind of inner joy... 291 00:12:03,068 --> 00:12:04,000 Yeah. 292 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:05,689 it's kind of hard just to suppress it 293 00:12:05,689 --> 00:12:07,103 and just be like, okay. 294 00:12:07,103 --> 00:12:08,482 - Um... - Well, I did my best. 295 00:12:08,482 --> 00:12:10,275 I don't know what else I'm supposed to... 296 00:12:10,275 --> 00:12:12,689 What else I was supposed to do, 297 00:12:12,689 --> 00:12:15,586 but I did my best to not have it be something 298 00:12:15,586 --> 00:12:17,310 that was painful for them. 299 00:12:17,310 --> 00:12:18,310 Mmm-hmm. 300 00:12:18,310 --> 00:12:20,379 I constantly was... 301 00:12:20,379 --> 00:12:22,689 suppressing and hiding my relationship 302 00:12:22,689 --> 00:12:24,896 and any kind of connection I had with Kody. 303 00:12:24,896 --> 00:12:27,586 You know, you said that you remember the exact moment 304 00:12:27,586 --> 00:12:29,896 when Kody fell in love with Robyn. 305 00:12:29,896 --> 00:12:31,379 That was a yucky day. 306 00:12:31,379 --> 00:12:32,586 - So... - So hard. 307 00:12:32,586 --> 00:12:33,724 ...how did that play out for you 308 00:12:33,724 --> 00:12:34,931 and how did that change the dynamics 309 00:12:34,931 --> 00:12:37,482 of your relationship with Kody? 310 00:12:37,482 --> 00:12:39,103 At that point, Kody and I were already 311 00:12:39,103 --> 00:12:42,310 really, really struggling, so that didn't help. 312 00:12:42,310 --> 00:12:44,379 Um, it broke my heart. 313 00:12:44,379 --> 00:12:46,103 That was one of my first moments 314 00:12:46,103 --> 00:12:48,172 of heartbreak was that moment. 315 00:12:48,172 --> 00:12:50,000 And I was just sitting at the edge of my bed 316 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:52,172 and watching him get ready to go on a date with her 317 00:12:52,172 --> 00:12:53,586 before they were married. 318 00:12:53,586 --> 00:12:54,586 And I was like... 319 00:12:54,586 --> 00:12:55,896 He's like, I don't know what's wrong with me. 320 00:12:55,896 --> 00:12:57,172 And I'm like, I'll like blah, blah, blah. 321 00:12:57,172 --> 00:13:00,482 And I said, "Oh, you're in love with her." 322 00:13:00,482 --> 00:13:02,000 And he looked at me and he's like, 323 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:02,931 because I said it out loud, 324 00:13:02,931 --> 00:13:04,310 I'm like, "You're in love with her." 325 00:13:04,310 --> 00:13:05,586 He looked at me and he's like, 326 00:13:05,586 --> 00:13:07,000 "I am. I am in love with her." 327 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:08,103 And he got really giddy. 328 00:13:08,103 --> 00:13:10,724 And I was like, "Oh God, it hurt." 329 00:13:10,724 --> 00:13:13,000 - Mmm-hmm. -"It hurt so bad." 330 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:14,103 It was so bad, 331 00:13:14,103 --> 00:13:15,793 because you realize at that point 332 00:13:15,793 --> 00:13:18,000 everything now is going to change. 333 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:18,827 Coming up. 334 00:13:18,827 --> 00:13:20,793 I've spent two years watching 335 00:13:20,793 --> 00:13:24,379 and seeing Christine and Janelle talk about me 336 00:13:24,379 --> 00:13:25,689 without me. 337 00:13:25,689 --> 00:13:26,931 And later. 338 00:13:26,931 --> 00:13:28,206 In that scene, he's probably getting 339 00:13:28,206 --> 00:13:29,620 a dose of what it's like to be a sister wife. 340 00:13:29,620 --> 00:13:30,586 Here you go, buddy. 341 00:13:30,586 --> 00:13:34,000 This is what it's been like for 26 years. 342 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:34,827 Mmm-hmm. 343 00:13:34,827 --> 00:13:36,068 Take off your blinders 344 00:13:36,068 --> 00:13:38,172 and look and see what it's like for us. 345 00:13:44,482 --> 00:13:45,310 Okay. 346 00:13:45,310 --> 00:13:46,310 Everybody settle. 347 00:13:46,310 --> 00:13:48,827 I didn't see the problems, like... 348 00:13:49,482 --> 00:13:50,586 Well, I got optimistic. 349 00:13:50,586 --> 00:13:52,000 I don't think I saw the problems, 350 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:53,896 but the problems were still there. 351 00:13:53,896 --> 00:13:56,275 And, um, when I met Robyn, 352 00:13:56,275 --> 00:14:00,586 it was, you know, like first time ever being in love. 353 00:14:00,586 --> 00:14:01,655 Hmm. 354 00:14:01,655 --> 00:14:04,103 And so that changed the dynamic, I think. 355 00:14:04,103 --> 00:14:07,206 And that's not anybody's fault. 356 00:14:07,206 --> 00:14:11,482 Um, it was a call for us to put more effort 357 00:14:11,482 --> 00:14:14,068 into the other relationships in my mind. 358 00:14:14,068 --> 00:14:16,068 But that became a grind. 359 00:14:16,068 --> 00:14:21,000 It was constantly, constantly trying to prove your love 360 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:24,896 and prove yourself and, uh, and, uh, um, 361 00:14:24,896 --> 00:14:27,379 like kind of doing this dance constantly. 362 00:14:27,379 --> 00:14:29,896 And, um, and some years were good 363 00:14:29,896 --> 00:14:31,862 because the dance was working really well. 364 00:14:31,862 --> 00:14:32,862 Okay. 365 00:14:32,862 --> 00:14:34,275 And what I'm talking about 366 00:14:34,275 --> 00:14:37,793 is these struggles in relationship 367 00:14:37,793 --> 00:14:42,586 when we don't have the basis of passionate love. 368 00:14:42,586 --> 00:14:44,000 Let me ask you a question. 369 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:47,172 Three of Kody's relationships have completely deteriorated. 370 00:14:47,172 --> 00:14:48,482 Mmm-hmm. 371 00:14:48,482 --> 00:14:51,068 Subconsciously, do you think that... 372 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:54,103 he's getting what he wants 373 00:14:54,103 --> 00:14:55,206 with this relationship with Robyn, 374 00:14:55,206 --> 00:14:57,689 this incredible soul connection? 375 00:14:57,689 --> 00:14:59,310 I know that he's happy with her 376 00:14:59,310 --> 00:15:02,000 and I know that they have this soul connection. 377 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,310 He speaks of that often. 378 00:15:04,310 --> 00:15:08,000 Um, and I'm glad that he has that with her. 379 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,068 I think everybody should have that. 380 00:15:10,862 --> 00:15:15,620 Um, I think it's very unfortunate 381 00:15:15,620 --> 00:15:20,068 that the rest of the family had to go by the wayside 382 00:15:20,068 --> 00:15:21,689 to get that. 383 00:15:21,689 --> 00:15:25,103 I think that he has in his life 384 00:15:25,103 --> 00:15:28,344 had the capacity to love 385 00:15:29,275 --> 00:15:34,275 and care for multiple of us, right? 386 00:15:34,275 --> 00:15:35,689 Like, we've got a big family. 387 00:15:35,689 --> 00:15:38,586 I think he has a capacity and for whatever reason, 388 00:15:38,586 --> 00:15:39,689 he's not doing it. 389 00:15:39,689 --> 00:15:41,586 I think when he met Robyn, 390 00:15:41,586 --> 00:15:43,068 I was one of the first people to point out, 391 00:15:43,068 --> 00:15:44,103 "Look, she's your soulmate. 392 00:15:44,103 --> 00:15:45,586 You need to acknowledge that she's your soulmate." 393 00:15:45,586 --> 00:15:47,793 And let's be honest and say, "Where do the rest fit in 394 00:15:47,793 --> 00:15:48,965 with your marriage now, 395 00:15:48,965 --> 00:15:50,206 now that you've met your soulmate?" 396 00:15:50,206 --> 00:15:51,862 And that was like, "Whoa, what can you say?" 397 00:15:51,862 --> 00:15:53,206 You know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 398 00:15:53,206 --> 00:15:58,068 Um, so our marriage itself wasn't great. 399 00:15:58,068 --> 00:15:59,793 If we were just living monogamy, 400 00:15:59,793 --> 00:16:03,172 we would've maybe stayed, I don't know. 401 00:16:03,172 --> 00:16:05,379 But our marriage wasn't great. 402 00:16:05,379 --> 00:16:08,000 Outside of Robyn, I agree. 403 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,275 I think him marrying her, 404 00:16:10,275 --> 00:16:13,482 I saw what a real marriage could be. 405 00:16:13,482 --> 00:16:15,103 I saw him with his soulmate. 406 00:16:15,103 --> 00:16:20,275 I saw, "Oh, I guess he does have it in him to help out. 407 00:16:20,275 --> 00:16:23,000 I guess he does have it in him, just not with me." 408 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:25,103 I just would've loved to have had 409 00:16:25,103 --> 00:16:28,896 a guy who would've loved to have been with me. 410 00:16:28,896 --> 00:16:31,103 Not that I didn't want her to have it, I didn't. 411 00:16:31,103 --> 00:16:32,586 I thought it would've been awesome. 412 00:16:32,586 --> 00:16:34,482 But can he give that to everybody? 413 00:16:34,482 --> 00:16:36,827 I don't think that's realistic either. 414 00:16:38,689 --> 00:16:41,448 I just think that maybe... 415 00:16:43,310 --> 00:16:44,758 her relationship with Kody 416 00:16:44,758 --> 00:16:46,620 was so very different from the get-go. 417 00:16:46,620 --> 00:16:49,103 Maybe it was hard for him to... 418 00:16:49,103 --> 00:16:51,310 I... 'Cause it really felt like he 419 00:16:51,310 --> 00:16:53,793 more and more pulled away from wanting to be 420 00:16:53,793 --> 00:16:55,275 a plural husband. 421 00:16:55,275 --> 00:16:56,379 Like having... 422 00:16:56,379 --> 00:16:57,620 Shouldering the responsibility of all the families 423 00:16:57,620 --> 00:17:00,517 unless they conform to his way of thinking 424 00:17:00,517 --> 00:17:01,206 or his way of being. 425 00:17:01,206 --> 00:17:02,482 - Okay. - In plural marriage, 426 00:17:02,482 --> 00:17:05,103 you're covenant, that you're gonna... 427 00:17:05,103 --> 00:17:06,896 you're gonna take care of each other. 428 00:17:06,896 --> 00:17:09,379 So that is up for him that he should have, 429 00:17:09,379 --> 00:17:11,103 if he wanted to really be live... 430 00:17:11,103 --> 00:17:12,482 Walking up to his responsibilities 431 00:17:12,482 --> 00:17:14,000 that he promised. 432 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:15,586 He would be working hard to make sure 433 00:17:15,586 --> 00:17:17,206 everybody's needs were met. 434 00:17:17,206 --> 00:17:20,000 Not just focusing on the one that he adored more 435 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:22,000 or had a more affinity for. 436 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:23,172 All right. Let's move forward 437 00:17:23,172 --> 00:17:25,793 because there's a lot more to unpack, especially, 438 00:17:25,793 --> 00:17:27,896 um, with Janelle. 439 00:17:27,896 --> 00:17:29,275 Where are you right now? 440 00:17:30,379 --> 00:17:31,586 Where does the relationship stand? 441 00:17:31,586 --> 00:17:33,172 Um... 442 00:17:34,482 --> 00:17:35,517 I don't know. 443 00:17:35,517 --> 00:17:37,000 It... It's like, "Hey, you know, 444 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,517 why don't we work on reconciliation?" 445 00:17:39,517 --> 00:17:42,793 And we... I mean, but it's just... 446 00:17:42,793 --> 00:17:44,517 She says, "I am not really that interested." 447 00:17:44,517 --> 00:17:47,482 And I say that I'm interested, but I don't do anything. 448 00:17:47,482 --> 00:17:49,896 You know, I don't like triangulating 449 00:17:49,896 --> 00:17:51,482 because what has happened in our family 450 00:17:51,482 --> 00:17:54,862 since this whole breakup is, um, 451 00:17:56,068 --> 00:17:57,206 people are coming to me 452 00:17:57,206 --> 00:17:58,689 with somebody else's grievance. 453 00:17:58,689 --> 00:18:01,896 So, my point is, is when I sit down with Janelle, 454 00:18:01,896 --> 00:18:03,482 I don't wanna ask about all the kids. 455 00:18:03,482 --> 00:18:04,482 Right. 456 00:18:04,482 --> 00:18:06,586 Because I don't wanna be gossiping, so to speak. 457 00:18:06,586 --> 00:18:10,000 And the nature of our family, uh, ten years ago 458 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:11,517 was me running from each house. 459 00:18:11,517 --> 00:18:13,103 I... You know, okay, this is what's going on. 460 00:18:13,103 --> 00:18:14,379 This is what's going on with family. 461 00:18:14,379 --> 00:18:16,310 This... You know, it was almost like I... 462 00:18:16,310 --> 00:18:17,103 It was a family. 463 00:18:17,103 --> 00:18:17,965 So it wasn't gossip. 464 00:18:17,965 --> 00:18:19,103 Right. 465 00:18:19,103 --> 00:18:20,103 - Here's what's happened. - Go ahead. 466 00:18:20,103 --> 00:18:23,862 Is I've spent two years watching and seeing 467 00:18:23,862 --> 00:18:27,172 Christine and Janelle talk about me without me. 468 00:18:28,275 --> 00:18:29,482 And they're just trash talking me. 469 00:18:29,482 --> 00:18:30,793 - Mmm-hmm. - So I'm like going, 470 00:18:30,793 --> 00:18:32,172 "I don't wanna ask about anybody else 471 00:18:32,172 --> 00:18:34,000 'cause I don't want anybody talking about me." 472 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:34,965 Mmm-hmm. 473 00:18:34,965 --> 00:18:36,413 And what are they trash talking me about? 474 00:18:36,413 --> 00:18:39,206 They're trash talking me because I'm guilty. 475 00:18:39,206 --> 00:18:43,068 Actually, yes, I am, of not loving them. 476 00:18:45,586 --> 00:18:47,172 Whoa. Let's go back to that. 477 00:18:47,172 --> 00:18:51,689 That's the guilty part of it is it's where I-- 478 00:18:51,689 --> 00:18:53,172 You're admitting? 479 00:18:53,172 --> 00:18:54,793 Oh, no, I got angry. 480 00:18:54,793 --> 00:18:56,862 And so I'm like, "Well, I'm... I... 481 00:18:56,862 --> 00:18:58,379 And if we don't wanna work on this, 482 00:18:58,379 --> 00:19:01,586 if we can't work this out, then I'm withdrawing this." 483 00:19:01,586 --> 00:19:03,896 But are you admitting that you were guilty 484 00:19:03,896 --> 00:19:08,896 of not loving them enough to help the relationship? 485 00:19:08,896 --> 00:19:09,793 No, no, no. I was-- 486 00:19:09,793 --> 00:19:10,793 Were you withdrawing their love? 487 00:19:10,793 --> 00:19:11,758 Oh, no, no. No, no. 488 00:19:11,758 --> 00:19:15,896 I was guilty of not being in love with them. 489 00:19:15,896 --> 00:19:18,172 It's... It was the guilt from the beginning. 490 00:19:18,172 --> 00:19:19,793 It was a guilt from the beginning. 491 00:19:19,793 --> 00:19:21,034 It's like, 492 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:24,758 I married and I didn't know. 493 00:19:24,758 --> 00:19:26,896 I married on a promise that was very different 494 00:19:26,896 --> 00:19:28,000 than romantic love... 495 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,206 - Mmm-hmm. - ...if that's completely. 496 00:19:30,206 --> 00:19:31,344 So... 497 00:19:32,896 --> 00:19:34,793 I'm in a place now where I would like 498 00:19:34,793 --> 00:19:36,620 romantic love with Janelle. 499 00:19:36,620 --> 00:19:38,310 We've got stuff to work out. 500 00:19:38,310 --> 00:19:39,620 Christine was always in a place 501 00:19:39,620 --> 00:19:41,689 where she wanted romantic love with me. 502 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:44,586 Let's get back to Janelle because... 503 00:19:44,586 --> 00:19:45,758 - Yeah. - ...there's a point last year 504 00:19:45,758 --> 00:19:47,275 where it felt like things really came to a head. Like... 505 00:19:47,275 --> 00:19:48,379 Yeah. 506 00:19:48,379 --> 00:19:49,896 I... I've never seen it before. 507 00:19:49,896 --> 00:19:52,275 Things got so uncomfortable between the two of you. 508 00:19:52,275 --> 00:19:53,758 Yeah. 509 00:19:53,758 --> 00:19:57,586 Um, that this clip is going to be uncomfortable to watch, 510 00:19:57,586 --> 00:19:59,379 but we have to, and then after that, 511 00:19:59,379 --> 00:20:00,793 I wanna hear your thoughts. 512 00:20:00,793 --> 00:20:01,793 Mmm-hmm. Okay. 513 00:20:01,793 --> 00:20:02,793 Let's take a look. 514 00:20:02,793 --> 00:20:04,586 So listen, you really need to stop 515 00:20:04,586 --> 00:20:06,586 throwing me under the bus, okay? 516 00:20:06,586 --> 00:20:08,103 Okay, you know what? Then you stop throwing me. 517 00:20:08,103 --> 00:20:09,896 You act like this is my fault. 518 00:20:09,896 --> 00:20:11,620 This is all I need. 519 00:20:11,620 --> 00:20:13,310 Is to not sit here and pretend 520 00:20:13,310 --> 00:20:15,000 that at Christmas time, nothing's wrong. 521 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:16,275 You act like this is not your fault. 522 00:20:16,275 --> 00:20:17,689 Do you want this relationship 523 00:20:17,689 --> 00:20:19,000 - between you and I to work? - I don't know, do you, 524 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:21,965 because when you say choose your loyalties? 525 00:20:21,965 --> 00:20:26,103 They chose to have their social lives. 526 00:20:26,103 --> 00:20:27,275 But this whole you need to apologize... 527 00:20:27,275 --> 00:20:28,793 They were lying. 528 00:20:28,793 --> 00:20:29,965 You need to apologize to Robyn. 529 00:20:29,965 --> 00:20:32,689 Janelle, I corrected that pretty strongly. 530 00:20:32,689 --> 00:20:35,586 Do you understand that you lie? 531 00:20:35,586 --> 00:20:37,103 That's the reason I call you The Teflon Queen. 532 00:20:37,103 --> 00:20:38,103 I did not lie. 533 00:20:38,103 --> 00:20:39,275 'Cause you're lying about what has happened... 534 00:20:39,275 --> 00:20:40,172 - It's wild... - and what's been going on. 535 00:20:40,172 --> 00:20:42,000 it's wild to me that you think I lied 536 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:43,965 because I think you're manipulating. 537 00:20:43,965 --> 00:20:45,172 I think you decided you wanna... 538 00:20:45,172 --> 00:20:46,586 didn't wanna be a plural husband anymore. 539 00:20:46,586 --> 00:20:47,862 - Kody, I think... - Oh. 540 00:20:47,862 --> 00:20:50,275 ...you're trying to do this all to justify you're-- 541 00:20:50,275 --> 00:20:51,586 - Christina's gone. - What am I justifying? 542 00:20:51,586 --> 00:20:52,586 You're pushing me out the door. 543 00:20:52,586 --> 00:20:53,793 What am I justifying? 544 00:20:53,793 --> 00:20:55,172 You are now pushing me out the door. 545 00:20:55,172 --> 00:20:57,482 You really do want a relationship with me? 546 00:20:57,482 --> 00:21:00,000 I need you to stop blaming me for everything 547 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:02,620 and start being culpable for what you have done. 548 00:21:02,620 --> 00:21:04,689 - That is accountability. - You made this... 549 00:21:04,689 --> 00:21:07,379 about all these other problems that we have 550 00:21:07,379 --> 00:21:08,310 that we can't sweep under. 551 00:21:08,310 --> 00:21:09,379 - This became issue... - I did not. 552 00:21:09,379 --> 00:21:10,379 - Yes, you did. - I did not. 553 00:21:10,379 --> 00:21:12,206 - I did not. I did not. - You said you're an... 554 00:21:12,206 --> 00:21:13,103 Wow. 555 00:21:13,103 --> 00:21:15,172 Stop talking like I'm just an idiot here. 556 00:21:15,172 --> 00:21:16,620 Well then stop talking to me like I am. 557 00:21:16,620 --> 00:21:19,896 Janelle, I've seen what you've done this entire time. 558 00:21:19,896 --> 00:21:23,206 Number one, you undermined the basic rules I had. 559 00:21:23,206 --> 00:21:26,379 You made fun of me to the boys. 560 00:21:26,379 --> 00:21:28,827 See, have you ever had my back? 561 00:21:30,379 --> 00:21:32,758 Have you ever been a team with me? 562 00:21:32,758 --> 00:21:35,000 Have we ever co-parented? 563 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,000 You co-parent with Christine. 564 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:38,172 Why? 565 00:21:38,172 --> 00:21:39,758 Because Kody, you were never available. 566 00:21:39,758 --> 00:21:41,620 - You've never been available. - That is such a lie. 567 00:21:41,620 --> 00:21:43,758 All I needed was a... Your back. 568 00:21:43,758 --> 00:21:45,000 - You are the one... - You backing me up. 569 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:47,586 ...who said the boys cannot come... 570 00:21:47,586 --> 00:21:49,275 - Janelle-- - ...until they apologized. 571 00:21:49,275 --> 00:21:50,793 And I corrected that and you're not listening-- 572 00:21:50,793 --> 00:21:52,379 And then you said to me-- 573 00:21:52,379 --> 00:21:53,586 - Stop. Stop that. - No, you listen to me. 574 00:21:53,586 --> 00:21:54,793 - I corrected that. - You listen to me. 575 00:21:54,793 --> 00:21:56,620 I even apologized for that. 576 00:21:56,620 --> 00:21:58,103 No, you did not. 577 00:21:58,103 --> 00:22:00,275 - Yes, I did. - No, you did not. 578 00:22:00,275 --> 00:22:01,482 I feel like... 579 00:22:01,482 --> 00:22:03,000 I feel like I'm being gaslit. 580 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:07,206 You have cheated me out of my contact with my family 581 00:22:07,206 --> 00:22:08,862 - because-- - It is not my fault. 582 00:22:08,862 --> 00:22:10,379 You ask them. 583 00:22:10,379 --> 00:22:11,896 You ask them who they blame. 584 00:22:11,896 --> 00:22:13,793 Well, they blame me because you do. 585 00:22:13,793 --> 00:22:15,275 I do not. 586 00:22:16,413 --> 00:22:17,896 Kody, in the very beginning, 587 00:22:17,896 --> 00:22:18,793 - I kept-- - Oh, no, no. 588 00:22:18,793 --> 00:22:19,689 No, you make this excuse forever. 589 00:22:19,689 --> 00:22:20,482 Listen to me. 590 00:22:20,482 --> 00:22:21,482 But I've-- 591 00:22:21,482 --> 00:22:22,758 Shut your [bleep] mouth and let me talk to you 592 00:22:22,758 --> 00:22:24,862 - for a minute. - No, no, no, no, no, no, no, 593 00:22:24,862 --> 00:22:25,965 - no, no, no, no, no, no, no. - You won't-- 594 00:22:25,965 --> 00:22:26,862 - No, no, no. - You keep cutting me off. 595 00:22:26,862 --> 00:22:29,172 - No, no, no. No. - You keep cutting me off. 596 00:22:29,172 --> 00:22:31,965 There is no interest in understanding each other here. 597 00:22:31,965 --> 00:22:33,413 So what partnership do we have? 598 00:22:33,413 --> 00:22:35,689 This is not only me, Kody. 599 00:22:35,689 --> 00:22:38,310 Don't you dare point your finger at me. 600 00:22:38,310 --> 00:22:39,517 You know what? Let me tell you what. 601 00:22:39,517 --> 00:22:40,586 - No. - No. 602 00:22:40,586 --> 00:22:42,275 - You stay and talk. - I'm done listening to you. 603 00:22:42,275 --> 00:22:43,689 You stay and talk. 604 00:22:43,689 --> 00:22:46,000 Ah, no, I'm not going to 605 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:47,517 because you're not listening. 606 00:22:47,517 --> 00:22:48,758 You're not listening to me. 607 00:22:48,758 --> 00:22:49,689 And I'm not going to. 608 00:22:49,689 --> 00:22:50,413 Okay. So we're done? 609 00:22:50,413 --> 00:22:51,241 Goodbye. 610 00:22:51,517 --> 00:22:52,862 you. 611 00:22:56,172 --> 00:22:57,344 Shut it off. 612 00:22:58,896 --> 00:23:01,551 That was really difficult to watch. 613 00:23:04,862 --> 00:23:07,965 I gotta imagine that this has gotta be 614 00:23:07,965 --> 00:23:10,000 one of the worst fights that you've ever had 615 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:11,241 before with Janelle. 616 00:23:14,379 --> 00:23:15,793 Hmm. 617 00:23:15,793 --> 00:23:17,551 So you fought like this before? 618 00:23:18,482 --> 00:23:21,862 Uh, in 30 years, yeah, we've had a couple like that. 619 00:23:21,862 --> 00:23:23,689 Not many. 620 00:23:23,689 --> 00:23:26,482 Were you surprised at how heated this got? 621 00:23:26,482 --> 00:23:28,517 Um, I triggered really, really badly. 622 00:23:28,517 --> 00:23:30,172 They... She talked about the Christmas tree 623 00:23:30,172 --> 00:23:32,068 for this party they were gonna have as a family 624 00:23:32,068 --> 00:23:33,965 and it triggered me. And-- 625 00:23:33,965 --> 00:23:35,551 So that's why it escalated? 626 00:23:36,379 --> 00:23:38,103 Oh, I take credit for that. 627 00:23:38,103 --> 00:23:39,206 Yeah, sure. 628 00:23:39,206 --> 00:23:42,586 It escalated because I've got a lot of, uh... 629 00:23:44,862 --> 00:23:47,758 you know, contempt for... 630 00:23:49,413 --> 00:23:51,275 the way she's treated me. 631 00:23:51,275 --> 00:23:54,172 And I think that... No, I'm accusing them. 632 00:23:54,172 --> 00:23:56,103 They say, "No, no, no, we're not doing that." 633 00:23:56,103 --> 00:23:58,482 But I think they're trash talking me because, 634 00:23:58,482 --> 00:24:00,793 um, it makes... 635 00:24:00,793 --> 00:24:02,517 You know, if I'm small, 636 00:24:02,517 --> 00:24:05,620 it makes them feel okay for how they treated me. 637 00:24:05,620 --> 00:24:08,103 Listen, I might not have been in love, 638 00:24:08,103 --> 00:24:09,517 but I was being loving, 639 00:24:09,517 --> 00:24:12,103 and I was trying to love, okay? 640 00:24:12,103 --> 00:24:15,517 Sometimes I would feel in love, all right? 641 00:24:15,517 --> 00:24:18,482 So I was doing, I was making all the effort. 642 00:24:19,586 --> 00:24:23,379 That the emotion wasn't always perfectly there. 643 00:24:26,103 --> 00:24:29,310 I don't think I'm accountable for that part of it. 644 00:24:29,310 --> 00:24:30,896 Coming up... 645 00:24:30,896 --> 00:24:32,965 Are you jealous that they're talking to each other now? 646 00:24:33,689 --> 00:24:35,172 I'm jealous because 647 00:24:35,172 --> 00:24:38,000 they're behaving the way they should have 648 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,689 for 25 years now. 649 00:24:40,689 --> 00:24:43,172 Does he feel betrayed because Janelle is friends with you? 650 00:24:43,172 --> 00:24:44,172 Yes. 651 00:24:44,172 --> 00:24:45,103 For sure. 652 00:24:45,103 --> 00:24:46,275 And I'm like, "Well, buddy, 653 00:24:46,275 --> 00:24:47,310 this is what jealousy looks like." 654 00:24:47,310 --> 00:24:48,965 See? 655 00:24:48,965 --> 00:24:50,172 See? See? 656 00:24:50,172 --> 00:24:52,068 This is what jealousy looks like. 657 00:24:52,068 --> 00:24:53,241 Here you go. 658 00:25:00,068 --> 00:25:01,689 Don't you dare point your finger at me. 659 00:25:01,689 --> 00:25:03,000 You know what? Let me tell you what. 660 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:04,241 - No. - No. 661 00:25:04,241 --> 00:25:06,000 - You stay and talk. - I'm done listening to you. 662 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:07,344 You stay and talk. 663 00:25:07,344 --> 00:25:09,793 Ah, no, I'm not going to 664 00:25:09,793 --> 00:25:11,275 because you're not listening. 665 00:25:11,275 --> 00:25:12,448 You're not listening to me. 666 00:25:12,448 --> 00:25:13,689 And I'm not going to. 667 00:25:13,689 --> 00:25:15,275 - Okay. So we're done? - Goodbye. 668 00:25:15,275 --> 00:25:16,551 [bleep] you. 669 00:25:21,103 --> 00:25:22,275 It's hard to watch, isn't it? 670 00:25:22,275 --> 00:25:23,172 Yeah. Yeah, it is hard to watch. 671 00:25:23,172 --> 00:25:24,689 Yeah. Yeah, it is. 672 00:25:24,689 --> 00:25:26,758 I can see lots of things that went wrong. 673 00:25:26,758 --> 00:25:28,379 Have you guys fought like this before? 674 00:25:28,379 --> 00:25:31,103 No. No. I don't think we've ever fought like this. 675 00:25:31,103 --> 00:25:33,034 I mean, Kody has had harsh words with me 676 00:25:33,034 --> 00:25:34,241 and I've had harsh words with him, 677 00:25:34,241 --> 00:25:36,172 but not to this... Not to this level. 678 00:25:36,172 --> 00:25:37,689 - Right. - For sure. 679 00:25:37,689 --> 00:25:38,965 You mentioned that you see things 680 00:25:38,965 --> 00:25:42,172 and now, looking at it, what do you see? 681 00:25:42,172 --> 00:25:44,965 Um, you know, I went in even with the talking points 682 00:25:44,965 --> 00:25:47,000 because I knew he was gonna come in really strong 683 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:48,275 to this argument. 684 00:25:48,275 --> 00:25:49,896 But I just, I shut down, 685 00:25:49,896 --> 00:25:51,448 like I couldn't even express myself, 686 00:25:51,448 --> 00:25:53,068 and then he just wouldn't let me. 687 00:25:53,068 --> 00:25:54,689 And I feel like now, 688 00:25:54,689 --> 00:25:56,379 I wish it would've been a little bit more like, 689 00:25:56,379 --> 00:25:59,103 "Hey, look, this isn't working anymore." 690 00:25:59,103 --> 00:26:00,448 Um... 691 00:26:01,275 --> 00:26:03,965 yeah, it was just too emotional. 692 00:26:03,965 --> 00:26:05,275 It was a lot of finger pointing, 693 00:26:05,275 --> 00:26:06,896 a lot of finger pointing. 694 00:26:06,896 --> 00:26:08,482 And did that start, like, getting you going? 695 00:26:08,482 --> 00:26:09,586 I was like, 696 00:26:09,586 --> 00:26:11,482 "Well, okay, then let's go." 697 00:26:11,482 --> 00:26:12,482 - Okay. - You know what I mean? 698 00:26:12,482 --> 00:26:14,448 'Cause like, there was no... 699 00:26:14,448 --> 00:26:16,965 In all of our communication, it's never been... 700 00:26:16,965 --> 00:26:18,862 It's always been about something else 701 00:26:18,862 --> 00:26:21,000 somebody else did, you know? 702 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,241 Or that you did. 703 00:26:23,241 --> 00:26:26,551 Or it's never like, "Well, I could've done this better." 704 00:26:26,551 --> 00:26:28,344 He never self-reflects and says, 705 00:26:28,344 --> 00:26:30,551 "Hey, I could've... I could've done this better." 706 00:26:30,551 --> 00:26:35,793 I think he really needs to do a lot of self-introspection. 707 00:26:35,793 --> 00:26:38,551 And that's really hard to do. 708 00:26:39,482 --> 00:26:40,689 That's really hard to do. 709 00:26:40,689 --> 00:26:42,793 And maybe he has been, I don't know. 710 00:26:42,793 --> 00:26:44,448 I can't... I can't say, 711 00:26:44,448 --> 00:26:47,379 but it doesn't feel like it 712 00:26:47,379 --> 00:26:49,586 from me being an outsider. 713 00:26:49,586 --> 00:26:50,896 It doesn't feel like it 714 00:26:50,896 --> 00:26:53,172 because there's still a lot of blame going on. 715 00:26:53,172 --> 00:26:54,689 Mmm-hmm. 716 00:26:54,689 --> 00:26:56,379 What did he tell you about the fight? 717 00:26:56,379 --> 00:27:00,965 He told me that, um, when he saw the Christmas tree 718 00:27:00,965 --> 00:27:02,965 and he realized, and she sat there 719 00:27:02,965 --> 00:27:04,103 and said she was take... 720 00:27:04,103 --> 00:27:08,655 Taking it over to the, um, the rental 721 00:27:08,655 --> 00:27:11,758 to spend that time with Christine with the tree, 722 00:27:11,758 --> 00:27:14,068 it really upset him. 723 00:27:14,068 --> 00:27:18,896 And, um, I know that that was one of the triggers, 724 00:27:18,896 --> 00:27:20,344 I guess you'd say for him. 725 00:27:20,344 --> 00:27:22,310 Why do you think that upset him so much? 726 00:27:23,068 --> 00:27:25,896 Because Christine left him. 727 00:27:25,896 --> 00:27:29,275 And so, Janelle is still his wife. 728 00:27:29,275 --> 00:27:34,137 And so, what he was expecting from her was support. 729 00:27:34,137 --> 00:27:38,068 And what he thought, what he saw happening, 730 00:27:38,068 --> 00:27:40,379 and what he felt like was happening 731 00:27:40,379 --> 00:27:43,862 was that she was giving more support 732 00:27:43,862 --> 00:27:45,862 and more understanding 733 00:27:45,862 --> 00:27:48,551 and siding with Christine. 734 00:27:48,551 --> 00:27:50,758 So he feels like she picks sides? 735 00:27:50,758 --> 00:27:52,275 Yeah. 736 00:27:52,275 --> 00:27:55,793 She never once expressed any empathy to me. 737 00:27:55,793 --> 00:27:58,379 During the breakup with Christine? 738 00:27:58,379 --> 00:28:00,724 Never. 739 00:28:01,379 --> 00:28:02,896 She sided with Christine, 740 00:28:02,896 --> 00:28:05,586 and then with that, just... 741 00:28:05,586 --> 00:28:09,965 Her and I just gradually just slowly unwound to this point. 742 00:28:09,965 --> 00:28:10,965 Okay. 743 00:28:11,862 --> 00:28:14,103 So you think that she sided with Christine, 744 00:28:14,103 --> 00:28:16,551 she never showed you any empathy, 745 00:28:16,551 --> 00:28:17,586 any love, any like, "I'm really... 746 00:28:17,586 --> 00:28:19,103 I don't think she's capable of it. 747 00:28:19,103 --> 00:28:21,896 I don't think she... I don't... 748 00:28:21,896 --> 00:28:23,689 It's weird to me that she wouldn't just go, 749 00:28:23,689 --> 00:28:27,344 "God, that's just so sad. That's hard." Or whatever. 750 00:28:27,344 --> 00:28:30,137 Are you jealous that they're talking to each other now? 751 00:28:30,137 --> 00:28:32,655 I am jealous because they're behaving 752 00:28:32,655 --> 00:28:36,931 the way they should have for 25 years, now. 753 00:28:37,793 --> 00:28:43,068 Yeah. It's like I see it as a big FU to Kody. 754 00:28:43,068 --> 00:28:44,655 It's like, we're gonna get along now 755 00:28:44,655 --> 00:28:46,689 because this will really piss Kody off. 756 00:28:46,689 --> 00:28:49,172 Does he feel betrayed because Janelle is friends with you? 757 00:28:49,172 --> 00:28:51,034 Yes. For sure. 758 00:28:51,034 --> 00:28:52,172 And I'm like, "Well, buddy, 759 00:28:52,172 --> 00:28:53,275 this is what jealousy looks like." 760 00:28:53,275 --> 00:28:55,103 See? 761 00:28:55,103 --> 00:28:56,275 See? See? 762 00:28:56,275 --> 00:28:58,344 This is what jealousy looks like. 763 00:28:58,344 --> 00:28:59,482 Here you go. 764 00:28:59,482 --> 00:29:01,275 Here... Now you see how hard it is 765 00:29:01,275 --> 00:29:03,103 when two people have a bond. 766 00:29:03,103 --> 00:29:05,000 Janelle and I have an awesome bond. 767 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:06,689 And maybe he's jealous about that bond. 768 00:29:06,689 --> 00:29:08,758 Maybe he's jealous that we co-parented. 769 00:29:08,758 --> 00:29:11,448 Now you see what it's like, buddy, and it sucks. 770 00:29:11,448 --> 00:29:14,241 It sucks that sometimes she picked me over you 771 00:29:14,241 --> 00:29:15,793 because she can talk to me 772 00:29:15,793 --> 00:29:17,482 and I will work things out with her. 773 00:29:17,482 --> 00:29:19,103 And because we've had our fights 774 00:29:19,103 --> 00:29:20,551 and we've had our disagreements, 775 00:29:20,551 --> 00:29:21,896 but we work them out. 776 00:29:21,896 --> 00:29:24,275 So, in that scene, he's probably getting a dose 777 00:29:24,275 --> 00:29:25,379 of what it's like to be a sister wife. 778 00:29:25,379 --> 00:29:26,586 Here you go, buddy. 779 00:29:26,586 --> 00:29:29,896 This is what's been like for 26 years. 780 00:29:29,896 --> 00:29:32,000 - Mmm-hmm. - Take off your blinders 781 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,241 and look and see what it's like for us. 782 00:29:34,241 --> 00:29:35,965 Christine has said, 783 00:29:35,965 --> 00:29:38,793 well, they're getting along and they chose each other. 784 00:29:38,793 --> 00:29:41,103 And now, Kody understands how it feels like 785 00:29:41,103 --> 00:29:42,379 to be a sister wife. 786 00:29:42,379 --> 00:29:44,655 I mean, sure. Reverse the tables. 787 00:29:44,655 --> 00:29:48,379 If you look at it from a perspective of one-on-one, 788 00:29:48,379 --> 00:29:50,655 institutionally, it's an unfair lifestyle. 789 00:29:50,655 --> 00:29:52,655 I never said it wasn't. 790 00:29:53,689 --> 00:29:57,241 They gotta choose their husband and they chose. 791 00:29:57,241 --> 00:30:00,586 There's other things that happened during that time 792 00:30:00,586 --> 00:30:02,275 and I can't tell you what they were, 793 00:30:02,275 --> 00:30:05,068 but Janelle and I were not getting closer. 794 00:30:05,068 --> 00:30:06,379 We're getting farther apart. 795 00:30:06,379 --> 00:30:09,275 But is it because in your mind, 796 00:30:09,275 --> 00:30:11,965 you thought that she chose sides with Christine 797 00:30:11,965 --> 00:30:15,620 and that... Maybe you wrote her off as a result of that? 798 00:30:16,379 --> 00:30:18,241 - Did-- - No, I never wrote her off. 799 00:30:18,241 --> 00:30:20,482 I just didn't feel the same kind of devotions 800 00:30:20,482 --> 00:30:21,620 to the relationship. 801 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,551 You know, just before Christmas, 802 00:30:25,551 --> 00:30:27,241 we talked about Thanksgiving stuff 803 00:30:27,241 --> 00:30:29,482 and I had just had Covid. 804 00:30:29,482 --> 00:30:32,965 And Janelle was gone on vacation with Christine 805 00:30:32,965 --> 00:30:34,482 when I got Covid. 806 00:30:34,482 --> 00:30:38,793 And it was pretty dark. 807 00:30:38,793 --> 00:30:41,758 It was pretty dark. It felt like such a betrayal. 808 00:30:42,689 --> 00:30:44,172 That the two of them were together? 809 00:30:44,172 --> 00:30:45,793 Well, yeah, when I was sick. 810 00:30:45,793 --> 00:30:47,482 So I was on vacation. 811 00:30:47,482 --> 00:30:50,655 Kody called me at the hotel and he's like I'm really sick. 812 00:30:50,655 --> 00:30:51,689 And I'm like okay. 813 00:30:51,689 --> 00:30:53,275 And I was getting ready to call Christine 814 00:30:53,275 --> 00:30:54,896 and say we gotta go home. 815 00:30:54,896 --> 00:30:57,758 Um, so I called the doctor 816 00:30:57,758 --> 00:30:59,241 because he was freaking me out. 817 00:30:59,241 --> 00:31:00,689 He was really scaring me. 818 00:31:00,689 --> 00:31:03,586 So I'm like okay, should I call for oxygen? 819 00:31:03,586 --> 00:31:05,551 Should I call for, like... I don't know. 820 00:31:05,551 --> 00:31:07,068 Like, I didn't know what to do. 821 00:31:07,068 --> 00:31:08,689 And I did consider coming home, 822 00:31:08,689 --> 00:31:09,965 but he's like no, don't come home. 823 00:31:09,965 --> 00:31:11,103 You can't come over to the house anyway. 824 00:31:11,103 --> 00:31:12,655 There's nothing you can do. 825 00:31:12,655 --> 00:31:15,172 So that's why you don't get why Kody is making a big deal 826 00:31:15,172 --> 00:31:17,172 about you not having compassion for him 827 00:31:17,172 --> 00:31:18,379 when he had Covid? 828 00:31:18,379 --> 00:31:21,000 So compassion for him is... 829 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,034 that for the months afterwards 830 00:31:24,034 --> 00:31:25,344 that he's like I almost died, 831 00:31:25,344 --> 00:31:26,965 I'm like, I get it, I get it. 832 00:31:26,965 --> 00:31:28,379 But you know what, 833 00:31:28,379 --> 00:31:30,655 this conversation is not about that you almost died. 834 00:31:30,655 --> 00:31:32,965 This conversation is about something else. 835 00:31:32,965 --> 00:31:36,551 And I'm sorry, you can't use it as an excuse, 836 00:31:36,551 --> 00:31:38,896 just like I think he uses this anger 837 00:31:38,896 --> 00:31:41,793 or this betrayal with Christine as an excuse. 838 00:31:41,793 --> 00:31:44,034 He called when we were on our trip 839 00:31:44,034 --> 00:31:46,689 and there we are having a lovely time together 840 00:31:46,689 --> 00:31:49,241 and he goes, "I need you to come home 841 00:31:49,241 --> 00:31:51,344 so you can get some stuff for me." 842 00:31:51,344 --> 00:31:53,689 And she's like, "Okay." 843 00:31:53,689 --> 00:31:57,000 I'm like, no, no. What are you gonna do? 844 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,586 I'm like, all you're going to do 845 00:31:59,586 --> 00:32:02,137 is go to the store and buy it for him 846 00:32:02,137 --> 00:32:03,689 and then take it to his house 847 00:32:03,689 --> 00:32:05,379 and leave it on the doorstep. 848 00:32:05,379 --> 00:32:06,793 You will never see him. 849 00:32:06,793 --> 00:32:08,379 You can't take care of him. 850 00:32:08,379 --> 00:32:10,551 And straight up, when you had Covid, 851 00:32:10,551 --> 00:32:12,000 did he go take care of you? 852 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,137 No. We're not leaving. 853 00:32:14,137 --> 00:32:16,689 You are staying here on this vacation with me. 854 00:32:16,689 --> 00:32:18,000 Coming up... 855 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,310 There's a lot of bullying in the family. 856 00:32:21,034 --> 00:32:23,275 And I'm just not willing to sit here 857 00:32:23,275 --> 00:32:24,482 and put up with it anymore. 858 00:32:24,482 --> 00:32:25,896 And later... 859 00:32:25,896 --> 00:32:27,000 After this fight, 860 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,586 I felt like this huge burden had been lifted from me. 861 00:32:29,586 --> 00:32:30,965 What was the burden? 862 00:32:32,275 --> 00:32:34,068 I didn't have to keep putting effort 863 00:32:34,068 --> 00:32:36,551 into this relationship anymore with Kody. 864 00:32:36,551 --> 00:32:38,758 I... That moment, I was thinking to myself, 865 00:32:38,758 --> 00:32:40,655 I don't ever wanna talk to Janelle again. 866 00:32:49,103 --> 00:32:51,551 Eleven. And marker please. 867 00:32:52,275 --> 00:32:54,137 So you couldn't get over the betrayal 868 00:32:54,137 --> 00:32:55,586 of her picking sides with Christine? 869 00:32:55,586 --> 00:32:57,034 Oh, at that moment, I can... I can get over with it. 870 00:32:57,034 --> 00:32:58,172 - We can figure it out. - Right, at that moment. 871 00:32:58,172 --> 00:32:59,241 We're talking about at that moment. 872 00:32:59,241 --> 00:33:00,793 That was the trigger was the... 873 00:33:00,793 --> 00:33:04,068 And the betrayal of not backing me up with the kids. 874 00:33:04,068 --> 00:33:05,275 But if you saw that... 875 00:33:05,275 --> 00:33:07,137 if you saw that trigger happening, 876 00:33:07,137 --> 00:33:09,000 how easy wouldn't it have been for you to be like, 877 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:10,965 "All right, I'd want to show up. 878 00:33:10,965 --> 00:33:13,000 I wanna see the kids during the holidays. 879 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:14,137 Can I show up?" 880 00:33:14,137 --> 00:33:15,793 Why couldn't you ask that question? 881 00:33:15,793 --> 00:33:18,965 I feel like... Okay. So, let's go to this point. 882 00:33:20,137 --> 00:33:21,448 - Personally... - Yeah. 883 00:33:21,448 --> 00:33:23,482 ...I feel like as we have seen, 884 00:33:23,482 --> 00:33:25,448 they're trained to blame Robyn. 885 00:33:27,275 --> 00:33:29,551 Um, the kids are estranged 886 00:33:30,482 --> 00:33:34,000 and Janelle has even been going, 887 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,482 "Oh, Robyn is this broken dub 888 00:33:36,482 --> 00:33:37,827 that Kody has to protect 889 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,689 from all the [bleep]." Yes. 890 00:33:41,689 --> 00:33:45,103 I feel like they have all been absolutely [bleep] to her 891 00:33:45,103 --> 00:33:47,448 and what's weird is they're [bleep] to me 892 00:33:47,448 --> 00:33:49,379 and I just put up with it. 893 00:33:49,379 --> 00:33:51,379 You know, it's just... For some reasons, 894 00:33:51,379 --> 00:33:53,586 water off a duck's back, but... 895 00:33:53,586 --> 00:33:56,793 I did not want them separating me and her 896 00:33:56,793 --> 00:33:57,965 from each other. 897 00:33:57,965 --> 00:34:00,275 So, where I go, she's going to go. 898 00:34:00,275 --> 00:34:03,241 And where she goes with that part of the family, 899 00:34:03,241 --> 00:34:05,344 she isn't going to feel welcome. 900 00:34:06,241 --> 00:34:09,068 And her kids aren't going to want to be 901 00:34:09,068 --> 00:34:11,034 around those other kids. 902 00:34:11,034 --> 00:34:13,241 There's a lot of bullying in the family. 903 00:34:14,137 --> 00:34:16,275 And I'm just not willing to sit here 904 00:34:16,275 --> 00:34:18,000 and put up with it anymore. 905 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:19,862 Were you given an invitation to go over to Janelle's? 906 00:34:19,862 --> 00:34:21,000 No. 907 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:22,551 And would you have gone if you were given an invitation? 908 00:34:22,551 --> 00:34:23,586 Yes. Yes, I would have. 909 00:34:23,586 --> 00:34:24,793 You would've brought your kids? 910 00:34:24,793 --> 00:34:25,862 - Yes. - And you would've felt like 911 00:34:25,862 --> 00:34:28,172 that was a safe space for your kids to be in? 912 00:34:28,172 --> 00:34:30,965 Um, if she would have invited me 913 00:34:30,965 --> 00:34:33,275 and they said they wanted us, I would have gone. 914 00:34:33,275 --> 00:34:35,068 I would have been safe, yeah. 915 00:34:35,068 --> 00:34:36,275 Kody had shared with me 916 00:34:36,275 --> 00:34:38,068 that he didn't think it was a safe space 917 00:34:38,068 --> 00:34:41,068 for you or the kids to go over to Janelle's. 918 00:34:41,068 --> 00:34:42,965 I think the reason why he's saying that 919 00:34:42,965 --> 00:34:45,379 is just because of this idea 920 00:34:45,379 --> 00:34:47,551 that the boys are blaming me for stuff. 921 00:34:47,551 --> 00:34:48,689 Mmm-hmm. 922 00:34:48,689 --> 00:34:50,275 I kept thinking that they would... 923 00:34:50,275 --> 00:34:52,241 He would work something out with the boys... 924 00:34:52,241 --> 00:34:54,689 - Or-- - ...so that it can be okay. 925 00:34:54,689 --> 00:34:56,275 Yeah. But it feels like 926 00:34:56,275 --> 00:34:58,448 there's two different non-negotiables, right? 927 00:34:58,448 --> 00:34:59,758 - For both of them. - Yeah. Yeah. 928 00:34:59,758 --> 00:35:01,482 So, for Janelle, it's the kids. 929 00:35:01,482 --> 00:35:04,275 - Yeah. - And for him, 930 00:35:04,275 --> 00:35:06,000 a lot of it revolves around you, 931 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:07,862 you know, and protecting you. 932 00:35:07,862 --> 00:35:10,344 - Like, get along with you. - He... No. 933 00:35:10,344 --> 00:35:11,448 And I... And I think-- 934 00:35:11,448 --> 00:35:12,482 And stop blaming you. 935 00:35:12,482 --> 00:35:15,172 And... Okay. And I understand that that's... 936 00:35:15,172 --> 00:35:17,965 As a husband, that's his right, 937 00:35:17,965 --> 00:35:20,896 I guess, to say it, but I also... 938 00:35:20,896 --> 00:35:23,586 I never wanted an apology. 939 00:35:23,586 --> 00:35:26,137 I didn't ask for one. 940 00:35:26,137 --> 00:35:27,896 I never expected one. 941 00:35:27,896 --> 00:35:30,586 I was not saying this to him. 942 00:35:30,586 --> 00:35:32,379 And I... And I feel very frustrated 943 00:35:32,379 --> 00:35:34,793 that my name got brought into this 944 00:35:34,793 --> 00:35:39,482 because this wasn't something I was interested in. 945 00:35:39,482 --> 00:35:42,034 The whole apology thing was... He corrected himself. 946 00:35:42,034 --> 00:35:43,689 He doesn't want an apology from the boys. 947 00:35:43,689 --> 00:35:46,172 But, you know, the mechanics were still the same. 948 00:35:46,172 --> 00:35:49,275 He kept saying after Robyn's prompting a little bit, 949 00:35:49,275 --> 00:35:51,034 he came to conversation 950 00:35:51,034 --> 00:35:54,379 of the boys can come and make peace, 951 00:35:54,379 --> 00:35:56,965 have a conversation, whatever it was, 952 00:35:56,965 --> 00:35:58,689 basically make it right with me. 953 00:35:58,689 --> 00:36:01,379 And then, they can come over for the holidays. 954 00:36:01,379 --> 00:36:03,103 What made you wanna walk out? 955 00:36:03,103 --> 00:36:04,793 I was just done talking to her. 956 00:36:04,793 --> 00:36:06,896 - You're not listening. - You're not listening to me. 957 00:36:06,896 --> 00:36:08,137 And I'm not going to. 958 00:36:08,137 --> 00:36:09,344 - Okay. So, we're done? - Goodbye. 959 00:36:09,344 --> 00:36:11,000 you. 960 00:36:12,172 --> 00:36:13,862 I... Literally, in that moment, 961 00:36:13,862 --> 00:36:16,344 I think what I was thinking is this is... 962 00:36:16,344 --> 00:36:19,241 This woman has... There's just no way... 963 00:36:19,241 --> 00:36:22,482 I just... It was like I... We're done. 964 00:36:22,482 --> 00:36:24,862 I'm so angry, I can't live like this. 965 00:36:24,862 --> 00:36:28,000 I can't be betrayed like this and be okay with it. 966 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,482 I can't have, you know, as... 967 00:36:30,482 --> 00:36:32,137 I'm supposed to be the head of the family 968 00:36:32,137 --> 00:36:34,482 and I've been undermined completely here. 969 00:36:34,482 --> 00:36:37,758 It's just... You're in a tough spot 970 00:36:37,758 --> 00:36:40,034 and you're questioning yourself, 971 00:36:40,034 --> 00:36:42,965 "Do I put more effort into this or not?" 972 00:36:42,965 --> 00:36:44,793 And I think Janelle and I, both. 973 00:36:44,793 --> 00:36:46,793 This is not an accusation to Janelle. 974 00:36:46,793 --> 00:36:48,586 Janelle and I both seen 975 00:36:48,586 --> 00:36:50,896 so little value in the relationship 976 00:36:50,896 --> 00:36:53,344 that we have not made those steps 977 00:36:53,344 --> 00:36:54,758 to bring it back together. 978 00:36:54,758 --> 00:36:56,241 Janelle sees more value 979 00:36:56,241 --> 00:36:58,000 in the relationship with Christine 980 00:36:58,000 --> 00:36:59,689 than she does in the relationship with me. 981 00:36:59,689 --> 00:37:02,103 But in the heat of the moment, at that moment. 982 00:37:03,137 --> 00:37:04,482 I don't ever... I... 983 00:37:04,482 --> 00:37:05,862 That moment, I was thinking to myself, 984 00:37:05,862 --> 00:37:08,137 "I don't ever wanna talk to Janelle again." 985 00:37:08,137 --> 00:37:10,482 I am... I was... 986 00:37:10,482 --> 00:37:12,344 I felt so betrayed. 987 00:37:14,034 --> 00:37:15,965 And her reaction to you... 988 00:37:16,758 --> 00:37:18,586 when she said don't walk away? 989 00:37:18,586 --> 00:37:19,482 Yeah. 990 00:37:19,482 --> 00:37:20,275 And then, she curses at you? 991 00:37:20,275 --> 00:37:21,241 Yeah. 992 00:37:21,241 --> 00:37:22,862 I just-- 993 00:37:22,862 --> 00:37:24,344 What were you saying at this point? 994 00:37:24,344 --> 00:37:26,000 Go work it out with her. 995 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:27,965 Go talk to her. 996 00:37:27,965 --> 00:37:30,172 And it's weird to me because I kept saying, 997 00:37:30,172 --> 00:37:32,275 "You guys have how many years together. 998 00:37:32,275 --> 00:37:34,448 You have six kids." 999 00:37:34,448 --> 00:37:36,137 Yeah, 30 years. 1000 00:37:36,137 --> 00:37:37,586 Yeah. 1001 00:37:37,586 --> 00:37:39,758 That's worth looking at. 1002 00:37:43,034 --> 00:37:46,137 You know, I said that to him over and over. 1003 00:37:46,137 --> 00:37:47,655 You know, that's... 1004 00:37:48,586 --> 00:37:49,655 Sorry. 1005 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:55,655 That's worth looking at. 1006 00:37:56,344 --> 00:37:58,689 That's worth fighting for. 1007 00:37:58,689 --> 00:38:00,896 I'm like, "Why can't you just go talk and see 1008 00:38:00,896 --> 00:38:04,275 if there's something worth fighting for? 1009 00:38:04,275 --> 00:38:05,965 That's a long time. 1010 00:38:05,965 --> 00:38:07,241 That's a lot of kids." 1011 00:38:08,379 --> 00:38:11,275 And to just, like, you know, toss it to the side, 1012 00:38:11,275 --> 00:38:13,241 I said, "That's one fight." 1013 00:38:13,241 --> 00:38:14,896 After this fight, 1014 00:38:14,896 --> 00:38:16,344 I... 1015 00:38:16,344 --> 00:38:17,689 I was pretty emotional for a few minutes 1016 00:38:17,689 --> 00:38:19,000 because the emotional shock of it. 1017 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,172 I... I've never fought with Kody like this. 1018 00:38:21,172 --> 00:38:24,586 And then, I had to run some errands 1019 00:38:24,586 --> 00:38:27,551 and I just remember feeling very relieved. 1020 00:38:27,551 --> 00:38:29,172 It was this really strangest thing. 1021 00:38:29,172 --> 00:38:30,379 I remember where I was. 1022 00:38:30,379 --> 00:38:32,793 I was sitting in this flat parking lot here in Flagstaff. 1023 00:38:32,793 --> 00:38:34,172 And all of a sudden, I'm like, 1024 00:38:34,172 --> 00:38:36,586 I felt like this huge burden had been lifted from me. 1025 00:38:36,586 --> 00:38:37,793 I felt relieved. 1026 00:38:37,793 --> 00:38:39,172 What was the burden? 1027 00:38:40,482 --> 00:38:42,379 I didn't have to keep putting effort 1028 00:38:42,379 --> 00:38:44,827 into this relationship anymore with Kody. 1029 00:38:45,793 --> 00:38:47,068 Coming up... 1030 00:38:47,068 --> 00:38:49,206 Didn't go really good last time we talked. 1031 00:38:49,655 --> 00:38:51,344 No. 1032 00:38:51,344 --> 00:38:55,586 I do think that I wanna stay separated for now. 1033 00:38:55,586 --> 00:38:57,586 You just felt that you were there to be, 1034 00:38:57,586 --> 00:38:59,793 - what, a physical boy toy? - Yes. 1035 00:38:59,793 --> 00:39:01,275 Like, some pool boy. 1036 00:39:01,275 --> 00:39:02,379 So, you just felt like a resource? 1037 00:39:02,379 --> 00:39:03,448 She just felt like a good-looking-- 1038 00:39:03,448 --> 00:39:04,482 I felt like a piece of meat. 1039 00:39:04,482 --> 00:39:06,586 I don't know. Like, he loves his pecs so much 1040 00:39:06,586 --> 00:39:07,793 that I'm like, "Hmm, I don't know, 1041 00:39:07,793 --> 00:39:09,241 you love them so much now." 1042 00:39:16,448 --> 00:39:18,482 Okay [indistinct] channel. 1043 00:39:18,482 --> 00:39:21,000 So, how much time had passed between that fight 1044 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:23,000 and you guys sitting down and having lunch? 1045 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:24,172 - It'd been two months. - Wow. 1046 00:39:24,172 --> 00:39:25,241 Two months. 1047 00:39:25,241 --> 00:39:26,379 I hadn't talked to him or seen him in two months. 1048 00:39:26,379 --> 00:39:28,137 So, you guys distanced yourselves after the fight? 1049 00:39:28,137 --> 00:39:29,896 No texting, no talking, no anything? 1050 00:39:29,896 --> 00:39:30,793 No. 1051 00:39:30,793 --> 00:39:32,172 I just didn't want to. 1052 00:39:32,172 --> 00:39:33,758 He didn't reach out to me, I didn't reach out to him. 1053 00:39:33,758 --> 00:39:36,896 Like, there was radio silence for us. 1054 00:39:36,896 --> 00:39:38,000 Well, let's take a look because... 1055 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:39,068 - All right. - it was... 1056 00:39:39,068 --> 00:39:41,241 There was a lot that was said between the two of you 1057 00:39:41,241 --> 00:39:43,655 and something that really kind of shaped 1058 00:39:43,655 --> 00:39:45,655 the future of your relationship. 1059 00:39:46,448 --> 00:39:47,379 Thank you. 1060 00:39:47,379 --> 00:39:48,379 - Hi. - Hi. 1061 00:39:48,379 --> 00:39:49,793 - How's it going? - Good. 1062 00:39:49,793 --> 00:39:51,379 - Long time no see. - Yeah. 1063 00:39:51,379 --> 00:39:53,655 Are you gonna give me a hug? 1064 00:39:53,655 --> 00:39:55,586 That was a high expectation. 1065 00:39:55,586 --> 00:39:57,068 - How are you? - Good. 1066 00:39:59,655 --> 00:40:02,103 Didn't go really good last time we talked. 1067 00:40:02,482 --> 00:40:04,172 No. 1068 00:40:04,172 --> 00:40:08,344 I do think that I wanna stay separated for now. 1069 00:40:10,586 --> 00:40:12,241 Really? You wanna stay separated? 1070 00:40:12,241 --> 00:40:13,551 Yeah. I do. 1071 00:40:17,172 --> 00:40:18,482 I'm sort of surprised 1072 00:40:18,482 --> 00:40:20,482 that she doesn't wanna try and reconcile, 1073 00:40:20,482 --> 00:40:23,379 that she wants to be separated. 1074 00:40:23,379 --> 00:40:24,793 We've been separated 1075 00:40:24,793 --> 00:40:27,310 probably two or three times in the past. 1076 00:40:28,379 --> 00:40:31,241 I always felt like that was because 1077 00:40:31,241 --> 00:40:33,379 she couldn't manage the relationship 1078 00:40:33,379 --> 00:40:34,482 with her sister wives. 1079 00:40:34,482 --> 00:40:36,896 I never felt like that was over me, 1080 00:40:36,896 --> 00:40:38,965 but maybe I was wrong. 1081 00:40:38,965 --> 00:40:41,862 I'm not gonna be angry with you anymore, okay? 1082 00:40:41,862 --> 00:40:44,275 I'm just... So, you know, 1083 00:40:44,275 --> 00:40:47,000 if you wanna do a separation, I understand. 1084 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,000 But I'm not gonna be angry anymore. 1085 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:50,793 If I get angry, I'm gonna leave. 1086 00:40:50,793 --> 00:40:52,448 I'm not gonna be accusatory. 1087 00:40:52,448 --> 00:40:54,965 I realize that I'm morphing this grief. 1088 00:40:56,103 --> 00:40:58,448 You know, for the last month or so, 1089 00:40:58,448 --> 00:40:59,689 I've vacillated between 1090 00:40:59,689 --> 00:41:02,586 I never ever wanna see you again to, 1091 00:41:02,586 --> 00:41:05,689 you know, just, so I gotta figure it out. 1092 00:41:05,689 --> 00:41:07,172 I do miss Kody. 1093 00:41:07,793 --> 00:41:09,000 We are very best friends. 1094 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:10,137 We have a lot of conversations. 1095 00:41:10,137 --> 00:41:12,172 I miss him in my bed. 1096 00:41:12,172 --> 00:41:14,448 I miss him in my house. I miss him. 1097 00:41:14,448 --> 00:41:15,344 But I'm not being treated 1098 00:41:15,344 --> 00:41:17,137 the way I deserve to be treated here. 1099 00:41:19,172 --> 00:41:20,896 Well, this lunch went better than I thought. 1100 00:41:20,896 --> 00:41:21,793 I was sort of-- 1101 00:41:21,793 --> 00:41:22,793 What did you think that was gonna happen? 1102 00:41:22,793 --> 00:41:24,793 I don't know. 1103 00:41:24,793 --> 00:41:26,137 You didn't think that I missed you? 1104 00:41:26,137 --> 00:41:28,137 Well, no, 'cause-- 1105 00:41:28,137 --> 00:41:29,551 You didn't think I wanna kiss you on the lips 1106 00:41:29,551 --> 00:41:30,551 and see you again? 1107 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,862 Here's the thing, you and I can be simple. 1108 00:41:34,862 --> 00:41:36,896 It's everything else... 1109 00:41:36,896 --> 00:41:38,655 that is complicated. 1110 00:41:38,655 --> 00:41:40,862 It's like, yes, on a basic level, 1111 00:41:40,862 --> 00:41:42,862 we are simple, if there was nothing going on, 1112 00:41:42,862 --> 00:41:45,793 but he and I, we're on some sort of desert island. 1113 00:41:45,793 --> 00:41:47,344 We would be great. 1114 00:41:47,344 --> 00:41:49,482 Let me tell you, we would be great. 1115 00:41:49,482 --> 00:41:50,862 But no. 1116 00:41:50,862 --> 00:41:52,275 Life is not that. 1117 00:41:52,275 --> 00:41:54,482 I do not know how to reconcile with you 1118 00:41:54,482 --> 00:41:57,275 unless my kids can all be... Kody, you didn't-- 1119 00:41:57,275 --> 00:41:58,689 I'm not... I'm not making any-- 1120 00:41:58,689 --> 00:42:01,482 You haven't even talked to Savanah in six weeks. 1121 00:42:01,482 --> 00:42:03,896 So, Janelle's not in love with me. 1122 00:42:03,896 --> 00:42:05,689 I think she thinks I'm hot. 1123 00:42:05,689 --> 00:42:08,551 I got nice pecs and a great six-pack abs, 1124 00:42:08,551 --> 00:42:10,862 but that's all she's interested in. 1125 00:42:11,379 --> 00:42:12,586 I'm like, "Whoa, buddy, 1126 00:42:12,586 --> 00:42:14,344 you're way missing the boat here." 1127 00:42:14,344 --> 00:42:18,034 There's way more to a marriage than just physical attraction 1128 00:42:18,034 --> 00:42:21,758 and I feel like we're in big danger here. 1129 00:42:23,482 --> 00:42:26,482 I just want to kind of discuss. 1130 00:42:26,482 --> 00:42:28,172 I feel like there's a real difference 1131 00:42:28,172 --> 00:42:29,862 between him sitting down with you 1132 00:42:29,862 --> 00:42:31,344 - and having a conversation... - Yeah. 1133 00:42:31,344 --> 00:42:34,000 - about your separation... - Yeah. 1134 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,586 than with Christine. 1135 00:42:36,586 --> 00:42:40,482 I do feel like we had all aspects of a marriage 1136 00:42:40,482 --> 00:42:41,827 and they were healthy. 1137 00:42:42,275 --> 00:42:43,448 Um... 1138 00:42:43,448 --> 00:42:45,000 You like his pecs? 1139 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:46,379 Could you believe that? 1140 00:42:46,379 --> 00:42:48,827 I was like... 1141 00:42:49,379 --> 00:42:50,551 Sorry. 1142 00:42:50,551 --> 00:42:51,689 He didn't know what he's talking about. 1143 00:42:51,689 --> 00:42:53,137 I mean, it was fine. I didn't care. 1144 00:42:53,137 --> 00:42:54,758 There's so much more to a marriage than that, right? 1145 00:42:54,758 --> 00:42:56,275 But it's a good... It helps. 1146 00:42:56,275 --> 00:42:57,034 I don't know. 1147 00:42:57,034 --> 00:42:58,482 Like, he loves his pecs so much 1148 00:42:58,482 --> 00:42:59,793 that I'm like, "Hmm, I don't know. 1149 00:42:59,793 --> 00:43:01,000 You love them so much now." 1150 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:03,551 And, like, they're great but, like, I'm... 1151 00:43:03,551 --> 00:43:05,896 It's not... It's not what it's about for me. 1152 00:43:05,896 --> 00:43:08,172 It's not what it's about for you? 1153 00:43:08,172 --> 00:43:10,000 It's about emotional connection for me, 1154 00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:10,896 you know what I mean, 1155 00:43:10,896 --> 00:43:13,793 and feeling like, um... 1156 00:43:13,793 --> 00:43:16,862 just that you're... Yeah, that connection. 1157 00:43:17,379 --> 00:43:19,103 Hey, I gotta say something. 1158 00:43:19,103 --> 00:43:20,896 - They missed something there. - What did they miss? 1159 00:43:20,896 --> 00:43:24,275 The, you know, the great pecs and the six-pack abs 1160 00:43:24,275 --> 00:43:26,551 is all about the fact that Janelle has always seen me 1161 00:43:26,551 --> 00:43:29,448 as a physical specimen and as a resource 1162 00:43:29,448 --> 00:43:32,689 and not ever really dove into my humanity. 1163 00:43:32,689 --> 00:43:35,896 When you say your humanity, you mean your vulnerability? 1164 00:43:35,896 --> 00:43:37,275 - Right, right-- - That you just felt 1165 00:43:37,275 --> 00:43:39,689 that you were there to be, what, a physical boy toy? 1166 00:43:39,689 --> 00:43:40,793 Yes. 1167 00:43:40,793 --> 00:43:42,448 I... Like, some pool boy. 1168 00:43:42,448 --> 00:43:43,689 So, you just felt like a resource? 1169 00:43:43,689 --> 00:43:45,655 I felt like a piece of meat. 1170 00:43:45,655 --> 00:43:48,103 Like, in what way? 1171 00:43:48,103 --> 00:43:50,379 Like... I... You have to explain what that means 1172 00:43:50,379 --> 00:43:52,379 because I don't know much 1173 00:43:52,379 --> 00:43:54,137 about your relationship with Janelle. 1174 00:43:54,137 --> 00:43:55,000 Yeah. 1175 00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:56,034 - Did you just have a-- - No, no. 1176 00:43:56,034 --> 00:43:57,448 Did you guys just have great sex? 1177 00:43:57,448 --> 00:43:59,000 Hmm. 1178 00:44:00,482 --> 00:44:03,482 Next time on Sister Wives: One On One. 1179 00:44:03,482 --> 00:44:04,689 She was attracted to me. 1180 00:44:04,689 --> 00:44:06,172 I know she wasn't in love with me. 1181 00:44:06,172 --> 00:44:07,793 There was definitely physical compatibility. 1182 00:44:07,793 --> 00:44:08,862 - Yeah. - Yeah. 1183 00:44:08,862 --> 00:44:11,137 Were you in love with Meri when you married her? 1184 00:44:11,137 --> 00:44:12,344 I told her I loved her 1185 00:44:12,344 --> 00:44:15,000 and she thinks we're mad about each other 1186 00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:17,103 and we played that out. 1187 00:44:17,103 --> 00:44:19,137 But isn't it not about him hearing you? 1188 00:44:19,137 --> 00:44:21,206 Isn't it about you being heard? 1189 00:44:22,172 --> 00:44:24,172 Oh, my voice will be heard. 1190 00:44:24,172 --> 00:44:25,793 I will no longer be silent. 1191 00:44:25,793 --> 00:44:28,655 I don't know why Meri hasn't left before now. 1192 00:44:28,655 --> 00:44:29,758 I would have. 1193 00:44:29,758 --> 00:44:31,896 How has he sabotaged your relationship? 1194 00:44:31,896 --> 00:44:33,068 Um... 1195 00:44:33,965 --> 00:44:35,482 he picks fights with me. 1196 00:44:35,482 --> 00:44:36,758 Why? 1197 00:44:37,482 --> 00:44:39,379 I wanted to punish myself. 1198 00:44:39,379 --> 00:44:42,137 Go be happy with each other for goodness sakes. 1199 00:44:42,137 --> 00:44:44,034 Let the rest of us go. 1200 00:44:44,034 --> 00:44:45,448 Speaking of Christine. 1201 00:44:45,448 --> 00:44:46,689 - Yeah. - Have you met David? 1202 00:44:46,689 --> 00:44:48,241 Yes. I think he's great. 1203 00:44:48,241 --> 00:44:49,172 Hey, David, come on out. 1204 00:44:49,172 --> 00:44:50,344 You're gonna meet the love of my life. 1205 00:44:50,344 --> 00:44:51,379 He's amazing. 1206 00:44:51,379 --> 00:44:52,482 Hi, David.