[Kody] Previously on Sister Wives ...
It is so heartbreaking
to have his stuff everywhere.
So, I just decided to pack up his stuff,
and I put it all in the garage.
I have been moved out of my house.
"Kody's books...
Kody's books, Kody's clothes."
[Janelle] I'm positive for COVID.
I must have just been exposed when everybody else was.
I'm concerned about whether, you know, they'll have,
um, bad symptoms,
we just don't know.
I'm hoping this is like the boys, and it doesn't really progress past
this bad cold stage.
I'm just ready to be free.
It's been 10, 12 years of that.
She's been telling wives,
and adult children that she's wanted to leave me for years.
So, there's boxes of my stuff.
This is a big deal,
and I did not, I did not see it coming.
I don't know if this is a phase
or if this is just an awakening.
[crying]
What did I do so wrong?
[Janelle] You know, despite our best efforts
to follow all the CDC guidelines,
my boys are outside of the home for work and stuff,
so, Garrison ended up getting COVID,
um, and as much as we tried to contain that,
and quarantine him,
the rest of us, Gabe, myself, and then Savanah all got COVID.
[coughing] I feel pretty good,
I feel like I have, um, just a bad cold,
little bit of a cough, some achy, I'm tired.
Each day would go, and I feel like,
"is this the worse day or is it gonna get worse?"
I felt like I had a super-achy flu
for about four or five days.
Kody is following all these extra rules
beyond what the CDC recommends.
Thank goodness he wasn't here. He didn't get it.
It didn't transfer to the rest of the family,
and we are fine.
So, by containing each household,
I think we were successful in keeping it from spreading
to all the other households.
You know, now the big question is is, you know,
what kind of immunity we've got,
what, what, what do we do now?
So, the kids are in the house all the time
because they're not going to school.
I sometimes need a place, a private place
where I can be alone, gather my thoughts,
so I had hide in the closet or I hide in the garage.
[sighs] So, Christine has left for Utah...
and, uh, is gonna go see Mykelti again,
and she was just at Mykelti's, uh, I think two weeks ago.
Just before Christine took off for Utah this trip,
I went over and talked to her about finding my boxes,
you know, boxes of my stuff in the garage,
You know, so we had a long talk
about what's going on in our lives.
I think we both just need to be free of each other.
I'm just ready to be free.
It was bad before COVID.
It's been 10, 12 years of that.
I'm not in a good place about it right now,
I'm pretty, I'm shocked,
I'm angry.
Since then, I've been just,
just going through the drama in my head.
The things done wrong, what could have been,
the blame.
The refusal in my own head
to wanna take any accountability for what has happened.
I've struggled to take her seriously about things in the past.
And I'm still, like wondering, "well, is this really real?
Is she gonna change her mind?"
You know, Christine and I went through kind of
a whole discussion recently about how, um...
uh, I'm never there, well, that's, I feel like...
it's kind of a tit for tat, to be honest with you.
She was saying, "you're never here,"
and I'm, like, going, "you're always travelling during COVID,
you know, you're always doing stuff that makes it so I can't be here."
And she says, "you were never here before."
Even though I asked him to not sleep here anymore,
he can still hang out with the girls and everything.
But he's not here any more than he was before,
he's not here any less, it's the same.
Truely's not even noticed it.
It's weird when wives are like,
"where are you, what are you doing?" and I'm like...
"he's going."
Kody is somebody who keeps himself very, very busy.
Even back in Vegas,
everybody was still complaining about time.
[Janelle] From the first time that I even met Kody,
he has always been, like, high energy,
and everywhere.
Sometimes I would wish that he would just
be a little bit more focused and centered,
and then sometimes I just realized, you know what, this is just who he is.
Different people think that Kody is not being fair with his time,
and he really actually is, they're just not tracking it
because they're struggling.
And it's really easy to sit there,
and think of the lack when you're struggling.
[Janelle] I couldn't live in his world, for sure.
He's pretty scattered.
I know he uses his car as an office,
but when he's at my house, he doesn't really come home till about 6:00 p.m.
I know he ends up at Robyn's a lot to help with the little kids,
but I really am not sure where he is.
Kody and I have a lot going on during the day.
That's why I have a nanny, so that I can have her help me
instead of trying to ask Kody to, you know, help with the kids.
You know, it's not really fair of me to ask him to help
when he has so many responsibilities,
and has such a big family.
[Kody] I literally have Christine telling me that the kids
don't think I wanna be around 'em.
Um, I've stayed home all year.
I haven't done anything, I didn't do any of my business things,
I didn't see my friends, I didn't travel with any of them.
And yet, you know, Christine's lifestyle
hasn't really been infringed upon,
to be honest with you, by COVID.
It's hard to see, just, such a contrast...
with Kody how he is at Robyn's house
versus how he is at my house,
he's just disengaged at my house.
My kids and I hike all the time.
We go kayaking all the time.
Kody came hiking with us once,
and he bought Robyn's kids 'cause he was babysitting them.
[Kody] It's not normal for me to babysit my kids.
I'm, I've been working all my life,
I was raised on a ranch, we were always busy.
The idea of going kayaking or hiking and stuff like that
is not something I really do a lot of with anybody.
I'm good at watching my kids but I almost never do it,
it's easier for me to pay somebody 20 bucks an hour
than to lose $200 an hour
with the business that I have at hand.
Ysabel just said, "Gwen and I both talk about
how we see yours and Dad's relationship
as really broken,
and to see him with other wives," she goes,
"I can't imagine what that's like for you,
and we don't wanna see that either."
[Robyn] You know, this isn't a new complaint,
uh, you know, that Kody favors me.
They kind of make assumptions about how he is at my home.
I'm not getting some preferential treatment,
even though that's what they think.
Plural marriage is hard for me, too.
The good news is, you know, um,
that, uh, Savanah's out of the woods,
she's over her COVID,
and so somewhere between 10 and 15 days,
I'm not sure, 10 or 14 days,
um, I'm not positive with 10 or 20 days.
I've gotta get it straight, but I'm thinking I'm gonna
be able to go over to Janelle's house in just a couple weeks,
and be able to stay there again.
Uh, Savanah's better, Janelle's better,
Gabe and Garrison been better for a week.
I still feel like we all need to be careful,
but at least I'm now able to go over to Janelle's house
without worrying about getting COVID,
and bringing it over to anybody else.
At least for a while.
As I understand it, you know, best I know,
this is what Janelle is telling me,
is that she can't get it now for 90 days.
Um, so, we started making plans about traveling,
and then I realized after we made these plans,
I'm like, "well, I can get it."
Janelle and her kids have gotten over COVID,
but we don't know yet if that's, like,
some sort of a safety...
situation where, like, he can't get it.
I'm frustrated by it, it's just the life we live, though,
and now we're realizing more than ever before,
during COVID, how much one person's actions
can affect the rest of the family.
So, I'm not happy about it, but this is what's going on.
Yes, Kody's actions are in fact...
um, hurting the whole family, it's true.
[Robyn] You know, Kody's, um, been at my house a lot
just by default because
of the decisions that other wives are making.
I love Kody dearly...
but this is not what I chose.
His other relationships are stressing him out so much,
that it's not like it's really fun to have him around that much anyway.
He's, um, an angry man right now.
He's really struggling, and he's really struggling with what's going on.
What's going on with him and Christine,
I've never seen him like this before.
It's like it's including the kids, you know?
And that's getting worse for him, and he's having a very hard time.
I don't think everybody's quite understanding what's going on here.
I miss my husband. [chuckles]
'Cause he's not himself.
Anytime I try to talk to him, it's...
I get the anger, you know, thrown at me.
And I have to say, "hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, I'm not...
you know, I'm not...
who you're mad at." You know?
I have tried to speak with sister wives,
I've tried to talk to Kody...
but, you know,
it's, just, nobody's willing.
I'm starting to feel just really...
helpless.
She's got this deer in the headlights look like,
"get away from me, just let me go."
I think what's healthy for us,
and what's healthy for our family
is me leaving.
I didn't know that being alone would feel okay.
[Christine] You know, Kody and I just have to touch base,
and talk about a few more things.
He's just gonna come over.
[Kody] About four weeks ago, I sat down with Christine,
and it was like, "okay, why, why, why'd you move my stuff out?"
You know? And she's like, "well, I'm leaving."
I was pretty frustrated in the entire discussion.
I'm afraid I'm on the edge
of, like, losing my [bleep]...
and I'm afraid she's on the edge of losing her [bleep].
She is the doorway,
the passage for me to get to my children.
I gotta admit, um...
there's been a lot of introspection I've had on this
about how I'm, we're not supposed to break up.
I'm supposed to fight for it.
Maybe it's okay for me to move on.
I'm, it's a, it's a real paradigm shift for me.
And I'm sitting here...
wondering if we're making a mistake.
Making a mistake in how, what do you mean?
Of leaving.
Me? Like, you feel like you're making a mistake
in letting me go?
I'm worrying that I'm making a mistake.
Is this going to damage our children?
I've been in this different paradigm, I think, for a very long time
with the anticipation or the expectation
that there would finally be a breaking point,
and we'd get counseling.
For Christine, it's been,
finally there was a breaking point, and she's out.
[Christine] It's been months since the conversation
about no intimacy in our marriage.
If, if he was interested in therapy,
he could have said something.
Like, she's got this deer in the headlights look like, "get away from me."
I never thought that I would be in a situation like this.
I thought we'd be together forever.
When you finally decided, though,
did you feel relief?
[Christine] Yes.
I don't know, I look back, and I wish that I would have
left in Vegas, and never come here.
I've had three wives threaten me to leave me,
uh, on and off,
our entire marriages.
You know, the threat to leave is always out there.
[Christine] I had chosen to live plural marriage when I was really young,
and I just imagined that I would always live in plural marriage.
So, even when things were hard,
I just thought, "well, this is, it can be hard,
plural marriage can be hard."
I just thought that it was okay to be sad.
And I think I was a lot sadder than I thought.
But I tried, I tried,
and I tried to be happy as much as possible,
and certainly I still found joy in things.
Plural marriage is tough.
It's really tough.
[Janelle] I think that Kody and Christine have struggled
for a very long time.
I feel like it's more of an inevitability coming
instead of a, "let's try to work this out."
[Meri] Personally, I look at plural marriage
like any other marriage.
If the parties involved aren't interested
or willing to do it,
you know, there's really not a whole lot else that can be done.
[Robyn] Plural marriage is very hard.
That's why you can't get lazy in it.
You have to choose it everyday.
You have to want...
...everyone in the family to be happy as much as
you want yourself to be happy.
It's the only way to do it successfully, in my opinion.
I wanna apologize for being so angry,
and I just said, "Christine, what do you want?"
And you said, "I just wanna be free."
And I'm, I'm sorry I was so angry.
Thank you, that's very sweet.
I'm sitting here going, "I've had to do a lot of introspection."
I'm really grateful that he's...
just being real, and not mad, and not angry.
It feels like, just, this major injustice
that is being done to me...
and it galls me.
I need to get to a place
where I can rejoice about your happiness...
and your freedom.
Thank you, that's, like, the sweetness thing
that you've ever said, by the way.
I just wanna thank him for...
trying to support me.
Gosh.
That's the sweetest thing he's said to me in years.
I think what's healthy for us,
and what's healthy for our family
is me leaving.
Because it's not working.
And it might just be me.
I've only said it a couple times,
"if you're not happy here, you can leave."
I didn't expect that, "you're not happy here"
would mean that you're gonna leave.
[Christine] I didn't know that being alone,
and not being married
would feel okay.
What are you wearing for surgery?
Um, I'm wearing just sweat pants, and then Dad's hoodie.
[Christine] Ysabel and I went to her surgery
just the two of us.
The doctors were telling Ysabel that,
"your daddy's gonna be here soon,"
and I'm like, "he's not coming,"
and they were like, "what?"
And then I realized, actually,
I can do this by myself.
And I'm fine.
[Kody] Here's the thing...
the past few weeks, every time I come over,
Truely is really happy to see me.
And I haven't told her anything,
she doesn't know that you don't sleep here.
To her, it's no different than before.
I haven't told Truely anything,
and she has friends whose parents have gone through divorces,
and she talks about how it's the worst thing in the world.
So, I don't want her to know
until we absolutely have to tell her.
[Kody] She made this decision without me,
without checking with me,
there was no fair representation of Kody in this relationship.
[Christine] It's been months
since Kody said he wasn't interested in a...
intimate in any way marriage with me.
I can't keep waiting for him
to want to be an involved husband.
I can't keep waiting for him to be a hands-on dad.
I, it's not working,
we've been waiting for each other
for 10, 12 years now.
[Kody] I just need to let her go.
I don't know why it's such a struggle,
it's curling my toes.
I need some grief counseling or something,
I don't know what's going on here with my attachment.
I can't let go.
This is, like, really the, literally the backfiring
of all my COVID rules right in my face.
Where do you think you're gonna move to?
Salt Lake area.
See, that's eight hours away.
She's gonna take Truely, and, uh, and move to Utah.
That bothers me so much.
Truely's my child.
I've been on my purpose for 30 years here with this family
with making a safe and healthy and functional
environment for wives and children,
and I'm struggling here because I don't know what it looks like
when she shatters this reality for me, and moves on.
We're just friends, Kody, we're just gonna be good friends.
I'm just trying to be...
Sorry.
Big about this.
I'm really not in the mindset of being friends.
I'm married to two divorced women,
I know what their opinion is of that guy.
Both Janelle and Robyn
were married before I married them.
They don't have good relationships with their exes.
I don't wanna have that happen here.
I don't want her going around the country
telling people that I'm a bad person.
It doesn't need to be complicated
if you've made the decision.
Well, it's already complicated
'cause it's not just you and I.
How is it complicated?
I don't know what's complicated about it,
it's like, she's chosen leave. Okay. Goodbye.
Are you fine with me moving away to Utah?
Not really.
Where do you think you're going to move to?
Salt Lake area.
See, that's eight hours away.
[Christine] It is.
That's sort of unrealistic for us with...
the situation with our kids.
Do you have to move that far?
Yes.
So, St. George isn't...
- [Christine] Gross. - Isn't good enough?
I would never move to St. George.
I'm disgusted by this idea
that she's moving, and she's gonna take Truely,
and, uh, and move to Utah.
Truely's my child.
I don't want to push her into something crazy.
Men don't win in the divorce world.
I've done my research.
Would we be breaking up if you didn't need to go to Utah?
I don't know, but I don't think that we would last.
I don't think we would last.
What I'm looking for is a place
to envelop Truely in family.
I can take her to a better support system
where she's surrounded by love.
Whereas here, to be honest, most of the time it's me.
Right now, Truely doesn't understand at all.
She doesn't see what Gwendlyn and Ysabel and...
have seen for years.
That he's just...
somewhere else, and he just prefers to be somewhere else.
I would rather take her away from this situation
before she clues in.
'Cause, I mean, there's a community that Truely has here,
she just doesn't have access to it because...
you're choosing to travel,
and Mykelti and Tony aren't quarantining.
- I don't think we've had a real true community here... - [Kody sighs]
in Flagstaff.
When we first moved to Flagstaff,
I was very shocked at how much
the cohesiveness of the family,
and the unity of the family was really struggling.
I don't recognize my family.
I think our family's been dysfunctional for a long time.
When our older kids were younger, we needed each other more.
It's really just been interesting seeing
the relationships changing.
I have always loved you, but I have not been in love...
For a long time.
And you were my first love, you were my first love,
and so you're always gonna be a part of my heart.
Always.
I fell in love with him,
and I was in love with him, and smitten with him
for so long,
and I wanna remember being in love with him.
The conversation with Robyn and Janelle and Meri...
yeah, I'm not looking forward to that one at all.
I don't wanna burn bridges at the end of this.
Some relationships are gonna be fine,
some are not gonna be fine.
I feel unmanly,
so I'm not gonna sit and go, "hey, somebody's leaving me."
I don't want my other wives to see me as weak.
So, I don't wanna talk about it to 'em.
Janelle knows more than anyone about...
the struggles that Kody and I are having,
but no one knows that I'm actually leaving.
So, I think the conversations,
that one is gonna be a hard one.
Definitely.
Do you think you should do that without me?
I really need you there the first time.
Really?
[Christine] Mmm-hmm.
Mmm-hmm 'cause I would like it to be
me leaving is me leaving, but we have talked about it.
I know that they're gonna be frustrated and mad
and hurt and feel betrayed,
and, "what does that mean to be a sister wife then?"
Am I still a sister wife?
And the answer is, "no."
I can't be their sister wife anymore.
I can be their friend.
And the relationship like how close I am with Janelle
is probably gonna stay like that.
How not very close I am with Robyn and Meri,
it's gonna stay like that, too.
[Kody] Part of me wants Christine to admit
that she's leaving because of her, not because of me.
Like she's been trying to justify her leaving
by things I've been doing,
not by choices or behaviors that she's had.
All right.
[Christine] 'Kay, so let's tell the wives.
I've just, that's about as much as I can handle.
I think so, too, let's tell the wives...
[Kody] Okay.
And do this 'cause I wanna be honest with them really badly.
You know?
Yeah, okay.
We're gonna have to sit down with 'em, have a discussion.
I realized I'm still in a state of denial.
Because she's leaving, I wanna put it all on her.
She's leaving,
you know, why aren't we working this out?
And, um...
I'm in a place of where I don't know what to say.
You know, I've tried to talk to Gabe and Garrison and Janelle,
and I've been shut down.
Okay, I've just got off the phone with Garrison.
He's mad at me that I'm not coming around,
and he basically just tried to cut relationship,
"I love you, Dad, but this is goodbye forever."
You know, I think my boys feel like it's more than just COVID.
They have honestly felt like there was a history
of, um, favoritism.
[Christine] Ysabel really wants to move to North Carolina.
She was just accepted to one of the colleges there.
So, she really is moving! My gosh!
I'm really excited for Ysabel.
Whether she knows it or not, she needs a break from me.
She's been around me enough,
and it tends to be quite heavy
around me with everything happening with Kody and I, so...
and this was my life from the very beginning,
so she needs to get away from me.
She needs to live her own life and not live mine anymore.
[Ysabel] I don't even know how this works.
You're doing great.
Madison Brush is connecting to audio, and can't...
- [gasps] Hello, sister! - Maddie!
Hello, baby, you look so cute.
Can you hear me?
Yes!
I'm sorry that we have to call you without Caleb, but at least...
[audio crackles]
You're good, I get it.
We're gonna touch base with Maddie to make sure
that she's onboard 100%
before we talk to Kody,
just because I feel like it's a loose end, I wanna tie it up,
but we'll reconfirm with Maddie again
just after we talk to Kody.
Ysabel has something exciting.
We just, I just wanted to let you know that I got into Pitt,
and I, for sure, am moving to North Carolina.
Whoo!
For sure! For sure!
- Oh fo' sho'! - For sure!
Pitt's a community college that Ysabel's going to be attending.
Maddie, Caleb know that Ysabel wants to move in with them,
but it's not like it's been 100% yet.
Now that Ysabel was accepted in the community college
where Maddie goes to school, isn't that cute,
it's gonna be an easier transition into adulting, for sure.
I am so excited!
Uh, I'm gonna have to talk to Caleb 'cause Caleb has been, like,
"Ysabel, when Ysabel comes,"
and I'm like, "babe, I don't know if she's coming for sure yet."
Caleb really has always wanted Ysabel
to live with them or close to them.
When they lived in Vegas with Janelle,
they got really close,
so, Caleb and Ysabel really close,
and Maddie, she really looks up to him.
She thinks that he's an amazing dad,
and loves to spend time with him, with Maddie...
it's just exciting.
I'm always gonna be so grateful to Maddie and Caleb.
When I decided that I needed to leave Kody,
I knew I wanted to talk to Maddie
as one of the first people because I wanted to make sure
I would still be involved in her kid's life,
and she just said,
"you're always going to be a grandma to my kids,
always, no matter what," and, gosh,
it was like a huge relief to me.
[Janelle] If a wife leaves...
I've seen everything happen.
Sometimes they're so disgruntled, and so done,
they don't get along with their sister wives, they leave,
they don't wanna see anybody ever again.
I've also seen situations where they didn't wanna be married
to the husband anymore, but they still wanna be friends,
and hang out with their sister wives, and they do.
It's all kinds of things that can happen.
I've seen families break up.
Not everybody will...
...stay in touch with each other.
Sometimes it's a, it's a complete...
split, it really just depends.
I'm excited.
Thank you for welcoming me into your home, I appreciate it.
Of course!
So, Maddie is 100% agreed that Ysabel can move there,
so, now we'll just talk to Kody, let her know,
Ysabel's just so insanely excited by all of it.
She's just so excited.
[Kody] COVID, the protocols that we've been trying to implement
have been taking a toll on the family relationships.
The fact is, in this environment,
I'm just trying to keep my children, especially my small children
from getting COVID.
Okay, I've just got off the phone with Garrison.
Oh, my goodness. Stupid stuff.
He's, like, blaming me for all the COVID stuff
going on in our family, this has gone too long.
Garrison, who I asked to move out of the house
probably six months ago,
went and finally bought himself a trailer
to move into so that he could be out of the house,
okay, so he could continue his social life.
Garrison is my fourth son,
he is now back living with me in Flagstaff.
He and Kody really butt heads over the CDC guidelines,
Kody's guidelines, and whether even Garrison's
being safe at all.
He now has bought a trailer that he's gonna park
to the side of my rental house,
and he's gonna fix it up, and live in that
while he finishes the saving for his house for a couple months.
The trailer has got too much work to be done on it.
Garrison doesn't move out, he gets COVID,
he gives it to all of Janelle's kids,
Garrison's girlfriend, and Gabriel's girlfriend,
so, Garrison gives it to his girlfriend...
and then he's mad at me that I'm not coming around,
and he basically tried to cut relationship,
"I love you, Dad, but this is goodbye forever."
I mean, like, literally, he's a grown-ass man,
he can move out of the house.
Garrison's like, "Dad, you're being a hypocrite,
you're not coming around,"
and I about lost my [bleep], man, I'm telling you.
He's calling me a hypocrite
when he's the one that can't be an adult, and go get a place.
You know, I've tried to talk to Gabe
and Garrison and Janelle,
I've tried to talk to them,
interact, and communicate with them, and say,
"hey, please will you figure this out with Kody or your dad,"
and I've been shut down.
Some family members are acting like it doesn't really matter.
Like, they're still in this narrative that COVID is fake.
Let's admit it everybody, it's real,
and those people who don't think that it is real, just...
are being stupid about it, okay?
I have never told Kody that I think it's fake.
COVID is real! I had it!
I had COVID, it's real!
Garrison is military, so he's actually had the vaccinations already.
Um, Kody still has a great fear
that we're somehow gonna transmit to him.
I don't know, I hope things get back to normal.
Garrison calls me up with his narcistic attitude, and goes,
"this is your fault, and I'm never gonna be around you again."
He's telling his dad...
"I'm done. I'm done with you
'cause I don't like how I think my mom is being treated,
how we're being treated at this house."
Janelle's kids have been frustrated with him for years
because of the way that he's treated Janelle for years.
Janelle's fine with her relationship with Kody,
she's said that it's everything she needs it to be,
everything she needs it to be, over and over and over, she says that.
Her kids feel different.
So, I just called Janelle, and said,
"I need Gabriel and I need Garrison to both move out."
This is the most hilarious thing to me,
he's threatened this before, I'm like,
"dude, you're not even on the lease. I'm on the lease."
'Cause it's, like, they're blaming me for having rules about COVID.
This is, like, really the, literally the backfiring
of all my COVID rules right in my face.
So, for my boys,
there's so much more going on that just this fight over...
whether whose COVID rules should be followed.
Kody's or the CDC or if they're being,
if they're doing the right thing.
They have for, they have for a long time perceived that Kody's...
focus, you know, his time, everything was spent
the majority at Robyn's house even when he lived in Vegas.
But they're very frustrated, they feel like there's been a real preference for Robyn.
And so this thing with COVID now
where he's now at her house
because she's willing to follow his rules,
they, they are a little bit suspicious.
Kody and I have a good relationship, like...
it's struggling, but, like, we, I,
I know what I need from Kody, and I communicate that to him,
and he does a pretty good job meeting it.
What I have now is adequate, it works for me,
but it doesn't look like Robyn's relationship with him.
[sighs] I know there's a lot of accusations from the boys...
you know, about me, and, um,
they're false.
I just don't have that kind of power over Kody.
And if I did,
I certainly wouldn't have chosen what we have chose through COVID.
I would have made us sit down, and find a compromise
about how to handle COVID together as a family.
That's what I woulda done if I had "the power"
that they think I have.
The older kids are, like, this club.
It's like, if they...
you're either in with them or you're out with them.
It's a clique.
I really think it's about their feelings about COVID,
and the accountability that they're willing to have about it.
So, Gabriel and Garrison are complaining to Hunter and Maddison,
Hunter and Maddison are, kind of, uh, colluding.
They're, they're basically gossiping about me.
It's sort of how the family runs, I guess,
is everybody gossiping about each other.
[Janelle] It seems to be that the line is becoming
more and more intense.
Choose this side,
which is Kody, Meri, Robyn and Robyn's kids
or choose the side that includes all of my children.
[Robyn] My kids aren't part of that group.
I don't know, it's a ganging up,
you know, defense mechanism, so, yeah, I don't know, it's weird.
This argument that Kody's having with many of his kids
about his COVID precautions,
Mariah's not involved in that.
This whole COVID thing is just boiling out our relationships.
It's boiling it out to find out really who we are with each other.
I wish all the kids could see how heartbroken Kody is
about the whole thing.
He just looks to be drowning to me,
and has no place to go,
and certainly whenever I see him, it just seems like he has
such a burden on his shoulders.
I just feel bad for the guy, honestly.
[Kody] It's too bad that you gotta go that far,
but I'm excited.
I feel broken.
And Ysabel's leaving.
Whatever has happened with me and Christine
has left her and I with this crap relationship.
[Christine] Before I can move from Flagstaff,
and move back to Utah,
I need to make sure my kids are set up.
So, Ysabel's going to be moving to North Carolina.
Gwendlyn, um, is working on getting an apartment in town,
and then Truely will just move with me.
Come on up, love.
Ysabel's still gotta tell her dad
that she's gonna be moving to North Carolina,
and she got accepted into the community college there.
It's happening.
- Hey, baby. - Hey, what you doing?
- [Ysabel] Hello, I just wanted to tell you that... - Sit.
All right, what's going on?
Uh, so, um, I applied for a Pitt in North Carolina, and I got in.
A Pitt?
Yeah, Pitt Community Colleges.
And then ECU, too.
So, I'll spend two years at Pitt, and then I'll transfer to ECU.
You got into college in North Carolina?
Yeah.
And you got in, and it's not gonna be expensive?
No, it's like, not expensive at all.
- So, that's what you've decided you're gonna do... - Yeah.
You're gonna move, are you gonna move in with Maddie and Caleb?
Yeah, I'll move in with them.
I hate being excited about you leaving.
- That sucks! - [Christine] Yeah.
But I'm sort of, I can tell, I can feel your excitement.
Yeah, I am really excited.
I really thought she'd stay here in Flagstaff.
And there's a heavy side of me that's going, right now I'm going,
"okay, are you running away from our situation?"
We need to move her, like, in August.
Yeah, moving you.
Yeah, we're moving her, we gotta drive across country.
Mmm-hmm, yep.
If you wanna drive out there with us,
you're, of course, more than welcome.
I mean, if you wanna fly there and help, like, move her in,
you're, of course, more than welcome, whatever you wanna do,
we can adjust whatever plans.
If you can come, and you can drive the beast instead.
I hope all the COVID restrictions have lifted.
That would be a hard drive with...
you having to deal with COVID restrictions.
- I'm not, I don't know... - I guess gas stations will still be open.
- I'm not worried about that... - Not that much of a difference.
Just wear masking. Just not being stupid.
We have no idea what the pandemic will be like in August.
I'm unwilling to make any commitments.
We're talking wishful thoughts here at this moment.
Well, that's exciting! That's awesome.
That sounds great, right? Are you guys good?
[Kody] I'm excited for ya!
I hope you're happy about your decision.
I am.
- [Kody] I'm gonna miss you. - I'm gonna miss you, too.
I think it's really important for Ysabel to be around
such a happily married couple.
Maddie and Caleb are phenomenal.
They're amazing together.
[Kody] It's too bad that you gotta go that far, but I'm excited.
I'm excited, too.
No, don't you worry about me.
I will, I'm excited, I'll call, I'll call, of course.
Truely and I are gonna have a transitionary life.
Um, it's gonna be a bit up in the air,
and I don't know what everything looks like...
but Ysabel gets to move to security.
All right, cool, swell, thanks for telling me.
You're welcome, Dad.
I talked to Gwendlyn, I told Gwendlyn, "look, um...
you know, things are bad between Dad and I, and I'm leaving Dad,
and I wanna move to Utah in September.
Do you wanna move with me, and go to Utah with me?"
And she said,
"no! I'm gonna stay here in Flagstaff, you go."
So, I said, "you know, do you feel like I'm abandoning you or anything?"
She goes, "Mom, I want you to be happy."
Congratulations, I'm glad you got in.
I'm excited, I appreciate it.
Whoo!
Ysabel wishes she had a better relationship with her dad.
Gwendlyn wishes she had a better relationship with her dad.
But overall, I think it's Kody's responsibility
to have a good relationship with his kids.
I think it's his responsibility not mine.
[Kody] I feel broken.
And Ysabel's leaving...
and it's a heartbreak to me...
that's she's leaving under these circumstances,
that whatever has happened with me and Christine
has left her and I with this crap relationship
where I'm just trying to reach to her.
It's been hard for me that Kody hasn't been around,
but it's been absolutely devastating for my daughters
that he hasn't been around 'cause they're moving.
They're moving away from home,
and he's missed this great opportunity to get to know them better.
And it's gone.
So, I spent my whole life trying to be the hero for my kids.
Working hard, doing everything I could
to support them, to help them, to be there for them,
And now because of this COVID situation they're trying to make me the villain.
Because of COVID.
Because of protocols.
Because I wanna protect my children.
Next time on Sister Wives...
Today is mine and Kody's anniversary.
Kody and I never had a legal marriage.
I don't know at what point our marriage is technically over.
In my head, Kody's relationship with his kids
is more important than anything else.
So, you wouldn't be able to come over if Ysabel goes back to school?
[Janelle] I'm feeling really bad for Izzy.
It's hard to not take it personally
that he doesn't wanna come over.
Kody, you could still go see her in the backyard or something.
[Kody] People make effort or they don't.
When it comes to smaller children, I wanna make an effort.
[loud grunting]
[Christine] Mykelti's finally in labor now.
Avalon's heartbeat just dropped.
And push with everything you've got. Everything.
- Do it for your baby. - [Mykelti] Get out!
That cord was wrapped around her three or four times.