“Some people call it F&F. And the second phrase is combat. Or F&F and the main word is combat,” the TV star joked about his failed marriages. “It doesn’t create intimacy, it simply creates orgasms.”
Kody Brown is being candid about his failed marriages.
All New Sunday Sister WivesKody admitted he was “horrible” in his past relationships, “but I wasn’t prepared to dump them.”
And he didn’t want to have it both ways, noting in a Sunday confessional that he had what he called “f–k and combat” fashion relationships with his first three wives – Meri, Janele and Christina Brown.
“(I) didn’t even know I was in horrible relationships,” Kody confessed. “You don’t know you’re in an unpleasant relationship.”
“You just think you’re in a traditional relationship because all your friends have the same problem, unless you’re in a traditional relationship that has deep emotional intimacy instead of (head banging),” he added, apparently referring the fourth spouse Robin Brown as your “regular relationship”.
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Kody went on to clarify, “Some people call it F&F. And the second phrase is combat. Or F&F and the main word is combat. This doesn’t create intimacy, it simply creates orgasms.”
“Don’t blame me for not loving you. I was fulfilling my responsibility,” he said in another confessional about what happened when his relationships with his first three wives declined. “Blame yourself if I don’t love you, okay?”
“When I’m in love with a girl, it’s her fault,” he added. “So what happens when I’m not in love with a girl? Is this simply my fault? If I’m crazy, I want to serve her, in love, I want to rub her feet, I want to carry her shopping, if I want to buy her jewelry, if I want her to feel special all the time, if I’m in love with a girl, I feel like it’s her fault her.”
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While Kody seemingly pointed out that his failed marriages to all three of his original wives were unhealthy, he explained that his relationship with Meri was the worst.
“This marriage has been on the rocks the entire marriage,” he said of Meri, whom he married in 1990. “And how would I know that? Because I had a much better relationship with Janelle, with Christine, with Robyn, and Janelle and Christine didn’t make it.
He added that he “should have gotten out of the relationship 25 years ago” instead of holding out for more than 30 years.
Kody’s relationship with Meri was the last to officially come to an end, despite the pair having had issues for years.
They legally divorced in 2014however, Kody can marry Robyn, 46, and have her three children from a previous marriage.
Kody and Meri remained spiritually married for nearly another decade before she confirmed in January 2023 that they were doing well. His religious marriages to Christine and Janelle resulted in 2021 and 2022 respectively.
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“My alternative was always to stay. If I needed to leave sooner, I would have left sooner,” Meri informed Kody on Sunday’s episode, noting that she took steps to “terminate” their union with the church.
Although Kody was able to move on from his relationship with Meri, he didn’t like how the church categorized their split.
“They said they were going to give Meri a release, a divorce for abandonment, and I just don’t believe that’s true. She was by no means abandoned,” he said in a confessional.
Meri, however, was firm in her perception that Kody “knew what was going on” throughout the process and would have gone with her to the church elders.
“I know they use the words abandonment, and he really didn’t like that. Most people don’t like what is fact”, joked Meri.
However, regardless of all of this, Kody revealed that he was hopeful that his relationship and friendship with Meri wouldn’t end after their breakup.
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“I don’t want any more enemies and I don’t want another loss,” Kody told the cameras. “I just hope that in the future, Meri calls me when she has something fun to share.”
“I’m embarrassed that my different divorces have created contempt and contemptuous enemies,” he added, referring to his splits from Christine and Janelle.
Elsewhere in the episode, Christine mentioned her new relationship with her now-husband, David Woolley.
The former polygamist broached the subject of David to her six children and their spouses, who said he reminded them of Kody.
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“He reminds me of Kody,” Christine’s daughter Mykelti’s husband, Tony, said on Sunday.
“Oh God!” replied Christine, who was the first of Kody’s wives to officially leave him.
“He’s from the same generation, for sure,” Tony said of David. “This whole Boomer thing where I don’t know what he’s saying.”
Noting the eight-year age difference between her and her future husband, Christine stated that she is decidedly not a Boomer, even though technically David is.
Meanwhile, Kody spoke emotionally about being a member of Generation X later in a confessional.
“Gen X, we are wild technology,” Kody shared. “What a good time to be alive! You’re a kid from the 80s, you bought musical films, you bought style, so many things going on. Duran Duran happened in the 80s!”
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While Christine’s children want what’s best for her and also have some nice things to say about David, not everyone was immediately on board when it came to the new couple’s turbulent relationship.
“As happy as I am for her, I feel like there’s a weirdness to it just because I only identified her as married to my dad,” Ysabel Brown, Christine and Kody’s daughter, said in a confessional. “She’s only recently been divorced, so it’s a little strange.”
To her mother, Ysabel added, “Still, I think you’re changing so, so fast.”
Christine agreed with her daughter’s opinion, however, she expressed no interest in slowing things down with David.
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“After our first date, I knew this was something I really needed to spend money on,” she shared. “My children, it will be very fast for them. It’s important that I know how my children really feel about David, but what they feel will not end my relationship with David.”
One person surprisingly involved with Christine’s burgeoning love life is Kody, who said in his confessional, “If Christine is wanting it by now, she should have been dating, in my opinion, whenever she felt like she was divorced.”
Sister Wives airs Sundays at 10pm ET on TLC.