[Kody] Previously on Sister Wives...
- Dang! - [Christine] It's nice, huh?
- Yeah, it's really nice. - [Christine] We love it.
David and I are moving in together.
We're moving in together. Oh, my gosh.
We only met a couple of...
We only met a couple of months ago. [laughs]
- Right. - No one.
Argh.
There's not anything, really. I'm free.
What do you mean by free?
Well, I mean, Kody and I
have officially said it's not working.
- Really? - I guess we had to officially say it.
I mean, I wish things in the family
could have gone a different way.
Yeah, me too. [sighs]
[woman] Hello.
- You can set the gifts... - Hey.
Yeah, Robyn and I are going over to Gwendlyn's bridal shower.
[Meri] Hi, David. It's good to meet you.
We found out that Christine was bringing her boyfriend.
It was a little shocking.
They'll stay on their side,
and we'll just try to not bother them.
[Christine] And so I'm posing with David, and then David goes,
"This is my favorite place,
and you're my favorite person to be with."
[theme music playing]
[upbeat music playing]
Who put marshmallows on their pizza?
- [all laughing] - Guess.
Oh.
Tonight a bunch of our kids are coming over.
We have something very exciting
that we're gonna share with them.
That we're engaged.
So you guys... Oh, the pizza stuff.
There's red sauce,
or there's Alfredo sauce behind you.
[Aspyn] Raegan will be an adult and help you.
I have never been an adult in my life.
I don't know how.
So David's kids and my kids are synching up so well.
I can tell like the kids felt like
it's happening way too fast.
And we know it. But we don't care.
It's our lives, not theirs.
Come on, let's twirl it. Ready?
- [laughs] - Go, go, go.
I can't do it.
[Christine] Ysabel is doing better and better and better.
I already told her that David and I are engaged.
What if you did the red sauce and Alfredo sauce?
Oh.
[Christine] I felt like she deserved to know
'cause she's gonna struggle with it most with my kids.
She was like, "Wait, what? You're getting married?"
And I said, "You knew we were getting married.
It's not too soon.
We just move fast now.
But now nothing else is happening.
We moved in with each other, we're engaged.
Nothing else.
Until, like, have, like, wedding planning stuff.
This is it."
We took some videos in Moab. I wanna show you guys.
So I told everybody that I have a video to show them of the wedding venue
so they could all kind of get a preview.
We took some photos when we were in Moab.
So Mom is a very theatrical person,
and she likes to make big surprises.
But she's also a very open person that doesn't hide anything.
[Raegan] Pretty sure that's another woman.
- [Paedon] Who is that? - [laughs]
[Paedon] Oh, crap.
Oh, my gosh.
- [Raegan] Wait, what? - [Aspyn] Wow.
- [Christine laughs] - Wait, what? You two are engaged?
- [laughs] - Can we see the ring?
- What is going on here? - Ring! Ring! Ring!
She also wanted us to react to it properly.
[gasps] Oh, my gosh! You guys are engaged? What?
I think people just put it together really fast.
But, no, he could have been quiet and let us reveal it.
Ah, rubbish.
Wow.
- What? Oh, my gosh! - Oh, hot damn.
Engaged, really? Really, it's...
been, like, what, two days? Three days maybe?
I just met the guy. What's going on here?
I just know it went quick.
- It's nice. We had designed it. - Is it real?
- [David] Wow. Wow.
Yeah, it's real. Just like David's real.
Until seeing Mom as happy as she is with David,
I don't think I realized how unhappy she was with Dad.
- So guess what. We're engaged. - That's a real...
- [laughs] - [all cheering]
No. What?
[Aspyn] It's nice to see this.
I'm happy she has this experience
and that she's happy with David and can be herself.
- Congratulations, guys. We're happy. - [Christine] Thank you.
- So when's the wedding? - October 7.
Okay, I like it.
[laughs] We're getting married in seven months.
[sighs]
I guess, you know, it takes a while to plan a wedding.
So, yeah, the work is now beginning.
[Meri] Today is moving day.
I'm super excited. It's gonna be a big day.
There's a lot that we still need to pack up and get moved.
Kody and Nathan will both be here,
and they will be the muscle and be able to help me
move everything in and get it all packed up.
And then Kody will be driving the truck up to Parowan for me.
- Hey, Meri. - Hi.
Hail Mary.
- [Meri] Hey, oh. - Full of grace.
My feelings on this issue are probably a little mixed,
but I'm very glad I'm able to help her move.
I'm very good with her moving on.
- Hello. How are you? - Hi.
I hope this is a goodwill gesture
that will keep us in a good place with each other.
Hey, I got a bomb to drop.
There are no bombs anymore, Meri.
- Do you know what today is? - [Kody] I do know what today is.
[laughs]
Do I know what today is?
- Well-- - It's our anniversary.
It would-- It's not anymore.
- Well-- - It would have been.
I wonder if she picked this day on purpose.
This was not planned. This was not intentional.
Today would have been mine and Kody's 33rd anniversary.
It's almost like it's God, the universe, whatever,
like, "You have done your time. Move on."
[Nathan] Is that why you wore the karma shirt?
I mean, [laughs] karma's a bitch.
- [laughs] - [Kody] Oh, my goodness.
I'm just laying the cards out on the table.
This is who I am. It doesn't matter anymore.
We're not married.
Meri, those are really nice.
- Should we run to town and get bags for them? - Kody... No.
- Kody. - Okay. All right.
- These are not really nice. - Oh, they're not.
This is the bed that you and I bought
when we first moved to Vegas. It's time for a new one.
I love this bed. I love this bedroom set.
When we moved to Las Vegas,
Kody and I went out and we bought this bedroom set together.
It was like the first brand-new bed,
bedroom set, mattress, that we had ever had.
Kody hasn't slept in this bed with me
for, like, many, many years.
I'm not gonna take it into the next phase of my life.
I don't intend to be single the rest of my life.
And I'm not gonna be like, "Hmm, here, look,
this is my bed that I had with my ex."
Like, that would just be weird.
[Kody] Is that stationary bike coming here?
[Nathan] This is why you kept the Saran wrap on the wheels.
[Meri] Yes, for two years.
Hey, hey, don't pretend you're gonna help me now.
- I got you. - Wow, Chicken Little.
I got you.
After all the baking is done, show up and be the hero now.
[Meri] Someone's gotta do it.
- Whoa, stop... - [laughs]
- [Nathan] This is... This is awkward. - Stop.
Is this awkward? I'm so sorry.
I should punch you in the mouth.
[all laughing]
Meri backs right into me,
and then Nathan pushes the bike into her.
- [all laughing] - [Kody] All right.
What is happening? What are you doing?
- [all laughing] - You okay, Meri?
That's sexual harassment from your brother-in-law.
Meri's bent over in front of me,
right against me.
Closer than I have been to him in years.
- [Kody] Who is my ex? - [Meri] Oh, my gosh.
Oh, my gosh.
We're divorced. I have one wife.
And it's funny, but it's not funny.
Robyn didn't choose to be monogamous,
but she is one now.
I mean, Meri and I have not been in this situation
for eight or nine years.
- [exhales] - [Nathan] Oh, karma saw that.
You're gonna make me pee my pants.
When I'm working...
[laughs] and I'm busy, I'm like a toddler.
I don't want to be distracted when I have a full bladder.
- [Nathan] Stop. - Next time it's gonna be you, and I'm gonna be behind.
And so when Nathan pushes the bike up against me,
not only is it awkward and uncomfortable for that,
it was also awkward and very uncomfortable
because I had a full bladder.
If he didn't let it go, I was gonna pee my pants, and I was not lying.
- All right, here listen, I wanna keep working here. - Ooh-hoo.
- [Kody] I really wanna work. - [Meri] I need a break.
All right, here, you move out of the way, Meri.
- Okay. - Ah, we'll make this fit.
Oh, Lordy, Lord Almighty.
Like, it was funny for us. Like, it was uncomfortable.
It was like, "Knock it off, Nathan. Back off, man."
But also, in any other situation,
it may not have been funny.
I think that's the first time I've ever threatened you.
Like, I'm gonna punch you in the mouth.
Yes, I agree, it was hilariously funny.
But on a matter of principle, it's not okay.
[laughs]
We're joking about something
that I certainly consider to be sacred with me and Robyn
'cause it was sexual in nature.
You know what I'm saying? It just...
Like, it was so funny and yet so...
wrong.
I went and talked to...
I even went and talked to Meri.
It's the first time I've seen her in, like, a year and a half.
- Oh. - And it was a weird conversation.
- Oh, it was? - She basically implied that she was so surprised.
Like, somehow she thought I'd been controlling the money.
It was Kody who really had the control of the money.
If you controlled the money, I think things would look a lot different.
Dude, man, if I controlled the money,
we would have paid off, built a house, like...
[pleasant music playing]
Janelle's coming into town for several reasons.
First, to meet David. She's never met David.
Her kids have met David, but not her. She wasn't there.
And I wanna tell her I'm engaged.
So it's all good things.
I'm so excited. I'm really glad she's coming.
It's been a long time since I've seen her.
I mean, I told David that Janelle has to come with me
in, you know, my life and everything that I do.
So, you know, it's about time that they meet since we're engaged.
Janelle. Welcome.
Oh, my gosh. Hello. How was your drive?
- Flight. - Flight.
So I know Christine has been dating this guy named David.
I really need to meet him 'cause it's obviously very serious.
It looks bigger than it does on the outside.
- 'Cause of the paint. - Yes, it's nice.
- It's deep. - We love it.
- It's deep. Our office. - Yeah.
Everybody's talking about him.
That's all she talks about.
They bought a house together.
I'm like, "I gotta meet this guy."
And then we needed this space big enough
'cause he's got eight kids, and seven of them live close.
- Okay. - And then I have all our kids.
I like pretty much everybody
unless they're really pompous and full of themselves.
I do not imagine David is that person.
I don't think Christine would put up with that.
So I don't think I'm not gonna like him.
But what if we don't like each other?
What if we have clashes?
- I have to make a lasagna. - [Janelle] I'll help. You tell me.
- [Christine] You can watch. - I'll be your sous-chef.
That would be bad. It would be really bad.
I still don't know where everything is.
We've only lived here for...
It will be three weeks tomorrow.
- Wow. - I know.
- It's fast. - Wow.
I remember Christine talking to me
when she first met David.
I think it was, like, their third or fourth date when she just knew.
So it does seem very fast,
but it doesn't feel wrong.
- So, yeah, so... - Perfect.
...Maddie and Caleb and I have been looking in Montana.
- [gasps] Yes. - You knew, but...
- Okay, so wait for it. - Okay.
We actually found a place in North Carolina.
- It's a farm. Like, it's a farm and it's-- - Are you serious?
Well, I mean, we'll see. We're still...
And if Caleb can still keep his same job.
- Which is great. It works. - It's only about an hour from where they live now.
They found land.
This isn't a "Found a house. I can resell it."
This is Janelle finding land.
[Janelle] So as Maddie and Caleb and I
really kind of dug into the Montana property,
we just decided that it was really, really expensive.
So we started looking,
and there's actually some properties
not very far from where Maddie is now in North Carolina,
and they're really surprisingly affordable.
Now what about the properties?
- You have to sell that first? What-- - I have no...
I have... I don't know.
[Christine] When we first signed the paperwork for Coyote Pass,
I read on there there'd be a big, huge balloon payment at the end.
They have to pay it off in the next couple of months.
And if they don't do that, they lose it all.
Can you imagine? That's stressful.
Kody says he's gonna have the money.
It's due in two months. Two months.
- Okay. And he says he'll have the money? - That's what he says.
And I told him I want him to buy me out,
and he's like, "I don't have the money,"
and I'm like, "Okay."
I haven't said anything to him about North Carolina.
I don't really feel like I need to share that with him.
He's not gonna be part of that life.
I think he's not gonna be that stupid.
But you know him. He gets to the place
where all of a sudden it's due,
and then it's somebody else's fault.
- It's never his fault. - I know.
It's always somebody else's fault.
But I mean, it's a real possibility.
I went and talked to...
I even went and talked to Meri.
It's the first time I've seen her in, like, a year and a half.
- Oh. - I went and talked to Meri, and I said, "Look.
Here's what's happening. It's due. Due, like, soon."
And I said, "You know, you might wanna really be proactive
and make sure you get your part."
And it was a weird conversation.
Oh, it was?
She basically implied that she was so surprised.
Like, somehow she thought I had been controlling the money.
All these years.
I'm like, "Dude, man, if I controlled the money,
we would have paid off, built a house." Like...
It's funny. My other wives remember Janelle controlling the money.
I...
I sort of guided where the money went.
We all had access to the account.
Listen, we were a family working together,
and we did this best we could.
I don't know what Kody's been saying about,
like, somehow I'm controlling the money.
If you controlled the money, I think things would look a lot different. I just...
I'm like, "All I've ever done is just record what was spent
and sent it to the accountant."
Yeah, because some of the texts, you were like,
"Does anybody know what was spent on this and this and this?"
That's right, 'cause I'm like, people were just spending,
and I'm like, "I don't know who this belongs to."
You know, it's wild. So this is Kody's MO.
He tends to attack somebody in an area that's important to them.
So he would say to Christine, "I'm not physically attracted to you."
That's what he said. "The whole marriage,
I was not physically attracted to you."
And that devastated her.
[Kody] I told Janelle that I wasn't attracted to Christine
when I was moving my stuff out of Christine's house into Janelle's house.
That was a private conversation.
I was in pain.
I never intended for Janelle to go telling Christine
what I thought about her during our breakup.
It was just totally rude of her.
[Janelle] For me, financial security and being smart financially
is really, really important.
So he's trying to pin everything on me.
And it makes me so mad.
'Cause I didn't know it.
He was doing it behind my back.
He kept telling everybody these stories.
And I'm like, "[bleep] hell. Excuse me."
But it's like I didn't do anything,
except I have to drink a whole freaking bottle of wine
when I sat and recorded the transactions
and sent them to the accountant.
[Meri] Janelle says one thing,
and Kody and Robyn say another thing.
I don't think either one of them
are being 100% truthful.
I'm trying to protect everybody here.
Trying to make sure everybody gets their...
And all I went to do to tell her was,
"You should maybe be aware of what's..."
She told me she's moving to Parowan.
- Wait a minute. - Yeah, she told me she's moving--
- Moving-moving to Parowan? - Yeah.
- Really? - I'm actually glad for her.
So she's done in Flagstaff? Then she doesn't live there anymore?
I don't know why she'd stay.
I'm excited that Meri is moving.
That's great. She needs to move on. That's...
Good for her.
When it comes down to controlling money,
I just feel like we each knew
what we were going to get out of the family money.
And then if there was anything extra,
we would just have to talk to Kody.
But then he could spend whatever the hell he wanted.
[Janelle] Um, there was a lot of that.
[Christine] All of our money got put into a big, huge fund,
and we got paid out of that fund.
And I always talked to Kody about getting paid.
He's the one who always wrote the check.
If I needed anything, I told Kody.
It was Kody who really had the control of the money.
He really did.
[Meri] Oh, hi. How's it going?
[Kody] Robyn's coming over. She told me she was gonna
drop off something and say goodbye to Meri.
And I know she's not well.
[sobs]
[Meri] I know that Robyn is brokenhearted about this,
and that's something she's gonna have to process through herself.
[upbeat music playing]
- I got a tattoo. - [Janelle] Ah.
Okay. I had to be out east for the baby,
but I heard about the engagement party.
- Wow. - So David and I have matching ones.
It means new beginnings in Celtic.
- So we all got tattoos. - At Gwendlyn's engagement party?
I've known Janelle for 30 years,
and most of those 30 years,
it was like a very... more of a straitlaced lifestyle.
And here I am living a life
that I previously would have thought,
I was just being "rebellious" and living in sin.
That is the statement.
I am now living in sin. Wow.
Kody came.
He was there for a brief hot second,
and it was right when Gwendlyn was getting her tattoo.
And he was there. And I'm like,
"All right, there we go."
- Wow. -"It's happening."
Wow. Ten years ago,
I don't know if we ever could have imagined--
What, three years ago? I don't think...
Not three years ago.
It's so funny. My kids, like, they all have tattoos.
They think it's fine. But they were kind of weirded out,
because Christine was always this, like,
super black and white, super pious,
super religious person growing up.
[Christine] So I knew Janelle
through all of that more conservative kind of a life.
And now she's still one of my best friends.
You know, people change, and everything changes,
and she's gonna support me with all these decisions.
And she's not gonna think I'm gonna burn in hell so it's great.
- Well, it's worked out really well. [laughs] - Yes.
- A whole new life, like, really fast. - Yes.
Really fast. Yes.
So something else is fast.
[chuckles]
- I am engaged. - Oh. [laughs]
Oh, my word, it's gorgeous.
When we went to Flagstaff, he surprised me.
- We were-- - Oh, when you went out...
- When you were just there? - Yeah, just there. Yeah.
So we stand there, and he's like,
"I wanna be with you. You're the most beautiful person I know."
And I'm like, "Oh. Oh."
And then he pulls out the ring...
- Wow. - ...and goes down on one knee.
I dropped everything, and I'm like, I need to answer.
"Yes, yes, yes." It was great.
- I love it. It's been so much fun. - Yeah. Wow.
So I am engaged.
So at this point, Christine's met David.
They've dated enough to know
that they wanted to buy a house together.
And now they're engaged.
Okay. And I haven't met David.
I sure hope as hell I like him.
I hope. I hope. It's gonna be bad.
'Cause they are already committed.
Like, they put some dollars into this ring. You know what I mean?
It's moving day.
I'm leaving.
I'm leaving this house. I'm leaving Flagstaff.
I've already left Kody, and I'm moving on.
[Kody sighs] Okay, I'm lifting...
and you're moving it towards me.
- [grunts] - My hand on your back, I know,
- is doing so much-- - No, keep it.
Keep it. 'Cause I need something to lean into
if I start to fall.
Meri's just on point today.
She's just the wonderful woman
that I would have liked to have been married to.
[laughs]
- Hey, listen-- - Listen, we're, like, the best divorced couple ever.
- What... - [laughs]
- Yeah.
Wow. There you go.
Yeah, she's the favorite divorced wife.
I knew I was gonna have a chance
of being favorite at one point.
- [both laugh] - Yeah. And, uh...
You're the favorite ex-wife, Meri.
That's easy as can be.
That's... That's actually great.
I'm not saying... Are you saying anything?
I'm not saying anything.
Both of you are laughing your heads off.
[Meri laughing] You keep saying...
[Robyn] So today is Meri's moving day.
Kody's over there with her helping pack up.
Meri, I do want you to hold that strap.
I was hoping to be able to be a part of it
and help her and go there.
But every single cell in my body
would be screaming at me to stop helping her,
'cause I just don't want her to leave.
[Kody] We're gonna give it a little pressure.
[Meri] On the bottom or just here?
Bottom too.
That's plenty. I think that's nice and tight.
[Meri] I think...
- Hey. - ...that we need to...
Oh, hi.
How's it going?
Good.
- We're packing. - Yeah.
[Kody] So Robyn's coming over.
She told me that she was gonna drop off something
and say goodbye to Meri,
and I know she's not well about this.
It's a heartbreak
of extreme proportions
that I don't understand.
- Hey. I need to talk to you. - Okay.
[Kody] You and I are just gonna keep working.
[sobs, sniffles]
I know this isn't goodbye, but... [sobs]
I know I'll still see you and stuff.
- Yeah. - It's just...
- I had to come over... - Thanks.
...and wish you
good wishes.
I appreciate that.
And tell you that I love you.
I love you too.
Robyn and Meri's relationship has frustrated me for years.
I've seen Robyn just manipulate Meri.
A real friend would be like,
"Yeah, you have a sucky marriage. You should leave."
Christine actually doesn't know much
about mine and Meri's relationship.
The idea of manipulating Meri into doing something
she doesn't wanna do is sort of laughable.
I'm just sorry that this worked out this way.
Yeah, it's kind of sucky.
I wish it would've worked out very differently.
Yep. Me too.
Knowing Meri, she's just sort of taking it in.
She's trying not to let this,
like, this whole experience of her moving
put her into a place of sadness.
- I just wanted to bring you a little... - Thank you.
...present.
[sobs]
Now we just write a new one.
[sighs] Um...
Aww, that's pretty.
"May there always be an angel by your side."
It's a junk journal.
It's basically a journal with a whole bunch of, like, pictures
and cute little papers and stuff like that.
I just want everything to go okay for you.
Thank you.
I think it will.
I'm really big on writing down your dreams and your goals.
And the whole point of bringing a journal to her
was to say, kind of say,
"I wish you happiness
in your next chapter.
And here is something to write down
all those beautiful dreams that you...
are gonna come up with," kind of a thing.
[chuckles] I love you.
[sobs]
- It's not what we chose, so. - Nope, it's not.
Um, she's very emotional,
and, um,
I don't wanna be emotional.
I don't mean to make you blue. I'm not trying to do that.
- No, it's fine. - Just want you to know I love you and...
It's fine. Thank you.
It's gonna be sad that you're not here, so.
- Permanently, you know. - Yeah.
- So... [clears throat] - Yep.
Like, I've had a lot of emotions through this.
Through the past decade,
through the past four years
while we've been living in Flagstaff,
through the past year.
I've had a lot of emotions,
and I keep my emotions guarded,
and I only share them with the people
that I'm comfortable sharing them with.
I really want you to find happiness.
- I'm happy. - Okay.
I'm happy.
I mean, I'm not happy with this,
but I have a good life.
- Okay. - So...
- All right. - Thank you.
- Good luck. - All right.
Thank you. I guess we'll just...
Yeah, we've got phones.
I know that Robyn is brokenhearted about this.
And that's something she's gonna have to process through herself.
- [Kody] Bye. - [Meri laughs]
- Dude, this is about me today. - Yeah.
- Yeah, whatever. - You get her all the time.
- Yeah, whatever. - Relax.
- Yeah, I'm gonna... Fine. - [laughs]
I am at peace with where I am.
I'm...
I have an internal happiness
that I haven't had for a really long time,
and I'm not gonna let that be brought down.
It's just one heartbreak after another.
[sighs] It's just too much.
[sniffles]
It's just too much. [exhales]
It's just different. It's just different now.
[sobs]
They're looking for somebody to blame.
- I guess it's me. - I'm not blaming. Relax.
This plural marriage was a big picture for us.
It was sacred. It was religious to us.
It crumbled, and it failed,
and I'm bitter, and I'm hurt,
as I am sure the other members of this family
are bitter and hurt, including Meri.
[Meri] Everything goes. Okay, Kody?
- [Kody] Yeah. - Biggest, most important.
That's my mirror
and our family mission statement.
Not sure what I'm gonna do with it.
Maybe burn it.
- 'Cause, obviously, it didn't work. [laughs] - [Nathan] Whoa.
You know, the mission statement,
I don't know what to do with.
We had all worked together
to write this mission statement.
"The Kody Brown family."
"We teach, allow and promote the value of making
conscious and responsible choices."
[Robyn] "We embrace one another with the covenant
of eternal nature."
"Our bodies being the temples for our spirits..."
And then we had this celebration.
You know, just celebrating us
and committing, recommitting to each other.
Well, that didn't work, 'cause look at us now.
They're looking for somebody to blame.
- I guess it's me. - I'm not blaming. Relax.
It was really important to know that I felt
like that family mission statement
was very, very inspired.
It was the pinnacle of joy for me.
In plural marriage, I just never really knew how to do it.
I don't know what to say about plural marriage
that made our lives so difficult with each other.
There was no map necessarily
or particularly a rule book
that really made it functionally workable.
- [Meri laughs] Take it off. - Here, big boy.
- [Meri] Listen. - Wow.
We... [laughs] Let's get on the road.
This plural marriage was a big picture for us.
It was sacred. It was religious to us.
It crumbled, and it failed,
and I'm bitter, and I'm hurt,
as I am sure the other members of this family
are bitter and hurt, including Meri.
- Thanks. - Let's hit the road.
You're gonna shut the garage door. Oh, yeah, you...
I gotta lock it and come around that way.
Meri changed after we got married.
And it was a hard relationship till today.
And that's ironic.
[Meri] Today has been good.
It's like we're seeing these parts of ourselves that
we loved back in the day.
I also
don't feel any regret of where I am right now.
- [David] Hello, I'm home. - [Christine] Hey, baby.
Okay. [chuckles]
- This is Janelle who's my sister wife. - [Janelle] Hello.
- It's like meeting the family. - [Christine] I know.
Janelle, David.
David, my... I told her.
- Oh, you did? Okay. - Here's David, my fiance.
[all laugh]
- Hi. Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.
I loved it. I loved...
I actually thought I'm gonna introduce Janelle
to David as my sister wife, and I got to.
Like, "Here's my sister wife."
But, usually, you're sister wife with someone, you know,
when you marry the same man.
And that's not happening, of course,
but I still do consider Janelle my sister wife.
[David] Christine explained to me how Janelle will be
a part of her sister wife forever.
Um, I got a little nervous about it.
I'm like, "Okay, what does that mean?"
'Cause I don't have anything to do with that stuff.
One man, one woman. That's it. [laughs]
- Okay. - What are you guys doing?
We're making lasagna.
This is exactly the guy that Christine's looking for.
I showed her my tattoo. Show her yours.
- Your tattoo. - Which one?
Well, just the one. Whatever.
- You can show everything. Yeah. - [Janelle] Oh, yeah.
[Christine] See, isn't it cute?
- [Janelle] Same place. - [Christine] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, I have the bigger one.
- [Janelle] Oh, yeah. - Yeah, he's got a ship and...
I told him I wanted...
I was looking for someone...
Specifically on my dating profile,
I wanted someone bald, with tattoos,
and who drove a motorcycle,
was who I was looking for on my profile.
Just a wee bit different from Kody.
Well... Oh, I see.
Well, it's just like you've got what you were looking for.
- I got exactly what I was looking for. - Yeah.
Yeah, he had a motorcycle too.
So she was always really attracted to that kind of bad...
Badass. I'm gonna just say it.
I was nervous about moving in with a guy full-time.
- I was just really, really nervous. - [Janelle] Oh, really?
It's the first time in my life
that I've had a guy full-time, right?
So I always thought that living with a guy full-time would be super boring.
And guys were like a ball and chain, and so difficult.
And I always wanted to live polygamy
because I just I thought...
Monogamy just sounded so boring.
[laughs] It's not boring.
There's literally nothing boring about David at all.
David's chill.
He's super, super, super chill.
He's totally easygoing.
Doesn't expect anything.
- Uh-huh. - No expecta... Okay. Right? Right?
Everything you're not saying is what I agree with.
No expectations whatsoever.
- He just comes in and... - It's awesome.
- I'm really actually glad for you guys. - It's fantastic.
[Janelle] Christine actually seems happy.
I can tell that she feels loved.
I can tell that she's confident.
I can tell she knows she's loved,
and she's secure in that.
It's so amazing for her.
[sobs] Meri, it's the end of an era.
Well...
This is like the final.
Like, the final-final.
Always blows me away that you get emotional like this.
I just don't understand.
We had something.
[Meri] He's sobbing.
He's saying it's the end of an era,
and I'm thinking it didn't have to be this way.
[truck beeping]
[Meri] Today we are unpacking.
Getting it all loaded into either the house
or into the storage unit.
[grunts] Hey, Jenn, how's it going?
It's going. How are you?
Kody and Nathan are here to help me unpack.
And then Jenn, my best friend, she's here too.
Did you park this by yourself?
[Kody] I could have parked it by myself,
but I had two people trying to boss me around on how to do it.
I know nothing about that at all.
- Wait, you're the pro bosser. - Hi. How are you?
I learned from you, Jenn.
No, no, no. Meri's been bossy from day one.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
- [laughs] - She's never been bossy.
[Meri] Kody's always gonna say that I'm bossy.
When I say that something should be done a certain way,
I'm usually right.
So if he wants to take that as bossy, fine. [laughs]
Here we go.
- Yep. I'm doing it. - You got it?
Are you getting paid? Am I getting paid?
Listen, he's my brother-in-law.
- Yeah. - This is my severance package.
[both] Oh!
Little bit this way. Okay, there you go.
- Do you wanna see the-- - [Jenn] Wait.
- I wanna see the upstairs. - [Jenn] Upstairs first.
Listen, Linda, one space at a time.
Is it not weird to show my ex-husband my bedroom?
Let me take you into your ex-wife's bedroom.
That's even more weird.
- [laughs] - Hi, I'm the best friend.
Let me take you into your ex-wife's bedroom.
You know, if you have an amiable relationship with your ex,
it's like brother and sister.
I am the favorite ex-wife. [laughs]
She's finally made it. She heard angels sing.
All right, let's go check this out.
I'm like, "Finally, I can be the favorite."
- I'm sorry. I'm just teasing you. - It's true.
She's the favorite ex-wife.
- All right, let's go. - Oh, y'all, with your polygamy humor.
Meri and Christine loved polygamy humor
with each other and with me.
And Janelle didn't like it, and Robyn didn't like it.
Like, I made a joke once, and Robyn said,
"I've been terrorized
by criticism of coming into this family.
Let's respect this."
To be fair, I think the struggle that Janelle had in it
and I think the struggle Robyn had in it
is kind of being a new wife coming in,
feeling like there wasn't full acceptance.
I mean, 'cause I guarantee you,
that happened to Janelle.
And, frankly, that's one of my big regrets.
[Meri] Whenever you bring a new wife into the family, it shakes things up.
I did have a hard time. I've admitted that.
I've never lied about that.
I don't know what to say about it other than
I'm sorry that I wasn't perfect.
All right. Okay. We're ready to go, ladies, I think.
- Thank you for your help. - So...
Oh, you are more than welcome.
You know, this is, like... the final.
Like, the final-final.
I'm done in Flagstaff.
My marriage with him is done.
I'm starting this new life.
Okay. All right.
Um...
Uh, it's kind of the...
[sighs]
Thank you. It was fun hanging out.
[sobs] Meri, it's the end of an era.
Well...
Yeah, it is.
It was a great run, but I'm not gonna let it get me down. [laughs]
[clears throat]
It always blows me away that you get emotional like this.
I just don't understand.
It's just I'm looking at my life,
and it feels not turned upside down.
It feels like everything just...
We had something...
- [sighs] - We had something really good.
[sobs]
We had something special.
And it feels like it just all went to [bleep], sort of, you know.
And, uh, it was just one thing and then another and then another thing,
and it's all okay.
I... I don't... I don't feel like...
I'm not bitter anymore. I'm not angry.
I'm glad you and I got that figured out.
[Meri] Yeah.
[Kody] I'm glad that we're able to be friends.
I'm glad that you're my favorite ex-wife.
But it's the weirdest thing to be in that place.
- Yeah. - It is just heartbreaking in a way.
And I love the life I have, but it's a very different life
than what I had three years ago.
You know, and it just seemed like everybody else just went,
"This isn't important."
You know, Robyn and I have been in different spaces of mourning about this.
Christine's gone for sure and for good.
Janelle is... most likely
because I just can't find the optimism there anymore.
And...
I lose it.
[sighs]
And it's like this is the final nail
in the coffin of our dream.
It was like we had something special.
We did something special.
And, you know, it's like just an end of an era.
Yeah, it really surprised me.
Like, I don't unders...
I don't understand it.
I've been... I've been going through
an anger phase of divorce all this time,
and just that realization just was like,
I'm not angry anymore.
I'm sad.
I'm sad not about, uh...
[sighs]
Um...
[sighs, sobs]
I'm mourning a loss...
you know?
[Meri] He's sobbing.
He's saying it's the end of an era,
and I'm thinking, "It didn't have to be this way."
[sniffles] I've been so angry with Christine and Janelle
that I haven't been able to really address the mourning.
I've just been angry.
And now with you, I'm through that anger phase.
I'm sorry about the seven years,
but I'm glad we did it.
'Cause now I can mourn a loss instead of being angry.
Does that make sense?
[sighs]
Kind of. [laughs]
And I appreciate what you're saying.
I do not understand. I don't get it.
I don't know where this is coming from.
I do not understand it.
I don't understand it.
He has made it clear that he did not want me in his life
so why this emotion?
You know, until the next guy, you know, your...
When you... If you marry again and everything like that,
I just... It's gotta...
I mean, I won't be weird about it.
Even though that got weird. I'm sorry.
[both laugh]
[Jenn] Would you be the flower girl?
No, I get to walk her down the aisle.
The fact that he's saying he wants to walk me
down the aisle when I get married again,
I'm like, "Uh, huh."
Like, why would he say that?
He's saying so... I don't... I'm... I don't know.
I don't...
Like, is he serious? Is he trying to make a joke?
Like, I can't tell.
I don't know what's going on.
It's like, you know, this is the end of an era,
and now we have permission to move on.
[sobs]
I am floored.
Like, I don't know what to do with this.
I'm... I don't know what to do with this.
Still to come on Sister Wives...
It's just heart breaking when the reality finally hits.
Oh [{bleep] What have I done?
[chainsaw revs]
Kody!
Move! Move! Move! Move.
What the hell.
It was dangerous when we started.
It's more dangerous now.
Wha??? [laughter]
Every since he has married Robyn
he has wanted nobody else or you.
Maybe I did the wrong thing.
[all cheering]
Your vagina looks really nice.
Ohhh. That needs to go.
We weren't sure where it was but now we are.
Oh, my gosh!
It's a start over. It's a do over in the very biggest way.
You sure you're okay, this Valentine's, just you and me?
I feel like I've been slapped by polygamy.
He is very angry, and I'm getting the brunt of it.
All right, guys... people.
Roll out.
I love Flagstaff. It's time to do something different.
I don't know how to explain this.
It was never intended for me to know that Janelle was moving.
I think we ought to try the slippery nipple.
Woo!
That's not bad.
[laughter]
Change and growth are scary, right?
And we don't always want to get out of our comfort zone.
I'm going to move to North Carolina.
If for some reason this goes south,
this is going to be a lot of work.
Listen, dating is fun.
I've dated a little bit.
Definitely not interested in polygamy again.
You definitely have got some special land out here.
I think they're worried about
whether I'm going to be fair or not.
Divorce just takes away all the trust.
I probably will get a lawyer
because I think he will just drag his feet if he wanted to.
I put money into it.
I'm going to get my part out of it.
It's so wrong that we have to do this.
I'm so mad.
It's a special place that was meant to be more special.
I don't want to sell.
Just give us what's ours and we'll move on.
What else is he going to do? Like, he can't really hurt me.
Will you accept me as monogamous?
It's not what I wanted.
This is the end of this family right here, right now.
[Robyn] Whoa!
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[rings clank]