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Wednesday, May 23, 2012
3:00 pm
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Tagged: christine, funny, humor, kody brown, LadyBaldy, las vegas, meri, polygamy, Polymonogamy, reality, recaps, Robin, sarcastic, sister wives, tvgasm
Meri concedes that last year Kody missed her b-day and their anniversary but she hopes that he will make it up to her. She can’t pretend it doesn’t bother her, but to let it actively bother her would bring down the house of cards that is her marriage.
Christine pours out her frustration to Meri; she tries to be happy and make the best of her time with Kody, but she cannot block out her resentment all the time. Congratulations on being human, Christine! Your inability to bury your emotions beneath a smile means you’re normal.
Christine asks Meri if this means she has to learn to pretend that things are fine when Kody is around. Meri says that she should not pretend, but she needs to make the best of her ¼ of Kody’s time and work through her issues without putting it on him. Christine reacts the same way I do:
“How is THAT a relationship? Sounds more like a relationSHIT to me.”
In the end, it boils down to the fact that Christine is still hung up on Kody’s courtship of Robyn. She explains that she was the last wife for a long time and she has a lot of conflicts within her now that Robyn has usurped this position. Christine used to be special (shiny and new) to Kody, and he was better at balancing three wives than he is with four. She doesn’t trust that Kody will come around and that their marriage will get better. Meri remarks that Christine’s lack of trust is what is driving Kody away. Here is a question: what has Kody done to help her trust him? Oh, I forgot, we’re supposed to solve marriage problems in a vacuum without the help of a husband.
Meri does illustrate her point well when she asks Christine how it feels when she makes an effort for her daughter Ysabel and Ysabel acts like an ungrateful terror? This example registers with Christine, and she has finally put herself in Kody’s shoes like a good ¼ wife should. Meri sums it up for Christine: it sucks that she has to do all the work on the relationship, but it is what it is. She encourages Christine to attempt to enjoy her date with Kody and leave the drama behind.
Even though the advice made me nauseous, it was nice to see Meri and Christine share a moment and for Christine to get her issues off her chest. Talking about it helps, people!
Meri tells us that it is really hard when a new wife comes into the family and it causes each wife to have to reexamine her role in the family. Christine had dibs on last wife for 16 years. Meri can relate to Christine’s issues because she’s had to do it THREE times. No wonder she’s chosen the path of stuffing her feelings deep down into her soul. Polygamy is hard work, Meri says. Robyn says it’s not for amateurs. Sweetie, aren’t you an amateur??
We’re off to Robyn’s! She has heard about Meri’s accident but hasn’t had a chance to see her or go over to Meri’s because Robyn is stuck at home with four sick kids. Four sick kids on your OWN? No thanks! Robyn mentions that she thinks Christine has gone over to Meri’s a couple times, which means she didn’t hear it from Christine. Guess that relationship still needs work. I’m tired and running on caffeine and reading into everything, so I’m wondering if Robyn is jealous that Christine gets to hang out with her BFF while she is stuck at home wiping noses and butts.
“I know that bitch is talking about me but it’s cool. At least I know the difference between third and last”
Time for the date with Christine! Christine looks happier than we have seen her in FOREVER, so apparently Meri’s talk helped:
Christine, are you crazy? The other wives can see your joy! Shut it down.
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Yeah, that whole wedding reception in a gymnasium thing is totally standard in Utah, due to the fact that, you know, everybody is married within 4 years of graduating high school and can’t afford real venues. Most ward gym’s see more receptions than any actual sport.
loved your recap, i feel the same way, i think chrisine has been a bit naive, but it really seems that she is doubting her “marriage” to mr ego
Wheee! A “Saved by the Bell” reference! Dead on, too. Back to reading
I keep saying polygamy and modern ways love marriage don’t mix. I’m going to try to explain why so get ready to scroll.
Some ways mix and some don’t. Take shoes in the house. If that’s a way you want to keep, fine. And fine if you don’t.
But try to mix it, with some people leaving their shoes on and some taking them off, everybody gets the same outside dirt on their feet. And your rug.
That’s why Meri’s advice was good and it also sucked. I’ll totally cosign the part about you can only change you.
But a lot of it was more like something you’d say to a single mom trying to decide if some guy she was dating was boyfriend or dumpster material.
They’d all be living as single moms most of the time no matter who their husband was. But you’re right about Bozo being stuck at 14. Christine can’t change that. She can put up, or she can bounce.
I’m sticking by my theory that Christine’s the only 1 that had those romantic love marriage expectations to begin with.
A modern ways love marriage is about personal feelings 1 particular person and you have for each other.
Old ways marriage, polygamy or not, is about stuff you expect, like your roles in your families or tribe or whatever.
Which is NOT the same as falling in romantic love with somebody that’s got the same goals and ideas you do. Because the number 1 thing is still that specific person and you guy’s personal feelings. Everything else is icing on the cake.
With old ways marriage, personal feelings come after the wedding. Usually it’s more like affection and appreciating them as they get to know them as a person. That affection’s the icing on the cake. Falling in romantic love would be like winning power ball.
It’s not that it never happens. But it’s not why they get married.
My guess is when Bozo and the swives (except for Christine) talk about how much more “in love” they are now than their wedding day they mean that old ways kind of affection.
But Christine wanted to be the 3rd wife of a guy that was in romantic love with all 3. I think now she’s starting to figure out 1) that’s not possible and 2) Bozo’s not into her like that.
Their ways are to put their religion 1st. Which means sucking it up and putting up with Bozo.
Bozo’s already done all he can to help Christine get those expectations down. She’ll have to do the rest for herself.
I have to agree. I think Christine has unreal expectations that has been fostered by her being the “baby” wife for 16 years. My thing is Meri’s advice was actually good. Any marriage counselor would tell you basically the same thing, change your attitude first, see what changes then go from there. Basically what Meri was telling Christine was if you always do what you always done, you will get what you always got. Christine is a bit like me where her emotion shows all over her face and she can’t hide it. So I am sure once Kody walks in the door her whole demeanor screams “Oh great, the ass is here….again.” And (I can’t believe I’m saying this) in his defense, who wants to walk into that? Maybe if she relaxes a little and calms down he will want to be there. Because lets be real, the problem with her and Kody only started when Robyn came into the picture. And the bigger bitch she becomes, the more in Kody’s eyes, Robyn is sweetest, bestest wife ever, and the angrier Christine gets. It’s a vicious circle.
My hubby asked me what if we took another wife (we’ve been married for 17 years), I said GOOD, now she can deal with you.
Can we PLEASE discuss Kody’s song to Meri at their wedding?? The falsetto? The length and repetition? Good lord.
Robyn has become the Marcia Brady of the group. As Meri and Cody were sitting in the ski lodge, Meri said (in her best Jan voice) … Robyn, Robyn, Robyn!
I am watching the show again now and wrote my comment before I started reading. So LadyBaldy I agree, lol
Let’s get real: Kody Hagar is boning one wife. And that wife is not Meri, Christine, or Janelle.
OK @lovesthehobbitses! Here goes:
Why did Kody sing a song about death at his wedding? Odd choice.
Why did he sing harmony instead of melody when it was a solo?
How come he didn’t have the words in front of him if he didn’t know them?
AY, YI, YI!
and i would give everything i own
give up my life, my heart, my home
i would give everything i own
just to punch you kody brown
Like the wives, especially Meri, but I can’t see the attraction for this clown. Kody is such a douche bag. Nuff said.
@no cars go…No you didn’t! That was great.
Baldy…you’re recaps are so well done! I kept nodding my head while reading the whole thing.
LadyB, while I love, love, love your recaps, could you please stop it with all those close pix of KoDouche? My plants are beginning to wither. Thank you.
Either that guy buys Viagra by the case, or he has some ‘splainin’ to do to at least some of the wives.
Meri’s night: “Anal? Nah. I already did that with Robyn this week.”
Janelle’s night: “Oral? Not feeling it. Robyn took care of that earlier this week.”
Christine’s night: “Know what? I think I just sleep on the couch.”
Ok if we needed any more reason to think Kody is a D-Bag…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/24/sister-wives-kody-brown-none-of-wives-can-satisfy-all-needs_n_1542439.html?ref=tv&ir=TV
Such a man-child…
Thank you for the link Kimmi. Ugh… who chose the UPS Brown color dresses for the wedding. “Brown”? Ugh again. Did I just answer my own question, lol.
Kimmie’s, that was certainly an interesting article. Glad you sent it alone. What does the “lightness of being together” with Christine? Is that “lite” as in Lite Beer, meaning not much of it?
Eeeewwwwwww. Every time I see him I hug HubbyCat. All of a sudden he has been wondering what’s up with that.
Thanks for the shout-out, LadyBaldy! What a surprise! Now, back to your awesome recap…
I don’t think Robyn ever wanted to share Kody with anyone. Her past marriage was monogamous. I thing Janelle is pretty much detached from all of them, and has shown that she can leave and make it on her own because in their book she talks about having left the family for two years. And when they moved to Utah i think she stayed behind with her five kids at that time. She initially lived with her mom and her mom’s sister wife who happens to be Kody’s mom. Kody’s dad is married to Kody’s mom and married Janelle’s mom after Kody got married to Janelle. After staying with her mom and in-laws for about six months, she and her five kids at that time, moved to their own home and she was able to survive quite well for two years, and then this lucrative contract with TLC came through and all the wives were on board for it. At one point all three wives had filed for bankruptcy. Meri has never connected with the other two wives and one of the reason’s Janelle left was because of a big blow up with Meri. Janelle at one time was married to Meri’s brother, but had no children by him. And Meri had problems with what had gone on between her brother and former sister-in-law. And Meri and Kody met Christine at some sort of youth camp where they were the camp leaders. And at some point decided to bring Christine in as the third sister wife. And so it remained… until 16 years later when Meri, her daughter and Kody met Robyn at a dance and Meri encouraged Kody to bring Robyn in as the fourth wife. Kody said he initially balked at the idea because Robyn had three kids from a previous marriage but eventually capitulated. And i think Meri did this to get back at Cristine and it has worked, maybe better than she thought. It is quite obvious that Meri does not like Christine and bringing in a younger fourth wife was more an act of vengence than anything else. In the end i think all the relationships Kody has with his four wives will implode and he will be left standing alone.
Thank you so much for the hilarious and dead-on recap! You have made my day!
When Kody said that line about “I spend more time with each individual wife than I do with the family as a whole” I was like…..whu whu whut? Im confused….is this about being a family, or having 4 relationships with 4 women? Maybe the words just came out wrong, I dunno.
It’s going to be very interesting when they build the houses on the “Brown Cult-a-Sac” because then Kody will be closer to all women. He can’t have the excuse of “they live so far away I can only see each one every 4 days” But again, I have to ask….if it’s about being 1 family, why not all live under 1 roof? Isnt that what they did in Utah? Ehhhhh Im confused.
I think Christine is just old-fashioned jealous, which is totally normal. She’s no longer the new wife…she feels replaced.
There’s no freakin way I could share my man….even IF he drove a Lexus convertible (and randomly for 1 day a Nissan Convertible)
P.S. Logan? Cuuuuuuute!
Many books on the market discuss the problematic issues involved in polygamy. They are absolutely heartbreaking.
“Predators, Prey, and other Kinfolk: Growing up in Polygamy” is the best. Others include “Stolen Innocence”
Oh, so many.
The point is that polygamy is difficult for and unfair to women. Many of the households are separate, and in many, many cases the husband drives expensive cars (often purchased with money earned by the wives) while the wives virtually starve.
Go to Amazon and enter “polygamy nonfiction” and you will be amazed.