Sister Wives’ Christine ‘Can’t Be’ a Sister Wife Post-Kody Split

A change is coming! The Brown household equipped for a serious shift of their dynamic within the latest episode of Sister Wives as Christine Brown ready to maneuver away for good.

“I believe we each simply must be freed from one another,” Christine, 50, instructed husband Kody Brown on the Sunday, September 18, episode of the TLC collection. “It was unhealthy earlier than COVID. It’s been 10, 12 years of unhealthy.”

Kody, for his half, lastly appeared to understand simply how severe Christine had develop into about leaving him and relocating to Utah.

“Since [that talk], I’ve been going by means of the drama in my head. The issues achieved unsuitable,” the 53-year-old actuality star defined in a confessional. “What might have been? The blame. The refusal for desirous to take any accountability for what occurred.”

Christine introduced in November 2021 that she and Kody had separated after 25 years collectively. The Utah native, who spiritually wed the patriarch in 1994, shares six kids with Kody: son Paedon, 23, and daughters Aspyn, 27, Mykelti, 26, Gwendlyn, 20, Ysabel, 19, and Truely, 12.

Throughout Sunday’s episode, Christine acquired actual about why she was prepared to maneuver ahead with out her longtime companion.

“Perhaps it’s OK for me to maneuver on,” the mom of six instructed Kody because the chatted about her future outdoors of their plural household. “I by no means thought that I might be in a scenario like this. I assumed we’d be collectively ceaselessly.”

Christine confessed: “Now I look again and need that I might have left in Vegas and by no means come right here.”

Kody, in the meantime, admitted that he reacted unsuitable when Christine first instructed him that she wanted to be “free” after years of unhappiness.

“I need to apologize for getting so indignant,” he stated, including, “I must get to a spot the place I can rejoice about your happiness and your freedom.”

Robyn Brown, for her half, identified throughout the episode that Kody was “not himself” amid all the drama with Christine. “I miss my husband. Anytime I try to discuss to him I get the anger thrown at me,” she claimed. “I’ve tried to talk with the sister wives, I’ve tried to speak to Kody however, you already know, no one’s keen. I’m beginning to really feel actually helpless.”

Christine, in the meantime, appeared to lastly be on the identical web page with Kody as she ready to go away Arizona. Whereas she was assured about shifting again to her house state with their youngest daughter, Truely, Christine was hesitant about having to inform Robyn, 43, Meri Brown, and Janelle Brown.

“Nobody is aware of that I’m truly leaving,” Christine instructed the cameras, noting that she was conscious that her departure would ruffle feathers. “I don’t need to burn bridges on the finish of this.”

She concluded: “I can’t be their sister spouse anymore. I could be their pal.”

Kody married Meri, 51, in 1990 and three years later he spiritually wed Janelle, 53. Robyn joined the household in 2010 and in 2014 Kody divorced Meri to legally wed Robyn and undertake her three kids from a previous marriage.

Sister Wives airs on TLC at 10 p.m. ET.

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