[narrator] Previously on Sister Wives..
So, Ysabel initially, like, they were told they could all go back to the classroom.
So I would like her to go in person.
If Ysabel's gonna go back to school,
then that totally changes everything at your house, Christine.
[mocking Kody] "If you go to school, I can't see you." I think that's ridiculous.
I'm telling my sister wives that I'm leaving Kody.
I have decided to leave. I'm gonna leave, Kody.
Well, damn. I mean, what do you say?
[Janelle Brown] I'm just processing.
If everybody's willing to conform to patriarchy, I guess...
...I'm gonna be the head of my household again.
Yeah, I didn't know I'd signed up for patriarchy.
That's not what we all agreed on in the very beginning.
If you move to Utah, what about Truely?
I think Truely's gonna be fine.
She's never gonna come back?
You can't take her from me. It'll have to be 50/50.
She didn't ask me if I was okay if I didn't stay at her house,
she just told me not to.
She didn't ask if it was okay if she moved my stuff out, she just did it.
She didn't ask if it was okay if she moved to Utah and took Truely,
she just told me she was gonna do it.
Now he wants 50/50 time with them?
Well, hell. He could have had 50/50 time with us the whole [bleep] time we lived here.
Christine and I have been on the fast track from separation to divorce
now for a few months, I guess.
The last time the family got together was when Christine told us she was leaving.
I feel very separated from the family.
Even with me, with my relationship with Janelle and with Robyn and the kids
I've struggled through this process.
I'm just trying to deal with it, but I've got other problems coming up,
you know? Janelle's gotta move, she's buying an RV,
I've got to figure out a way to get that onto the property,
and so I gotta hurry up and get over to Janelle's house
so we can figure this out.
[Janelle] I went with Kody to pick this truck up about a week ago.
-[Kody] How's it going? -[Janelle] Hi, honey.
It can pull a lot, and it will be big enough to pull the trailer I bought.
[Kody] Nice to see you. So...
Yeah, I guess we are... I guess he got this truck.
"Oh, we have to buy a truck to move a trailer." I'm like...
..."No. You don't."
I saw my sister-in-law, my brother's widow,
um, back in the holidays, and I was like,
"If you're ever gonna sell that truck, then I'd like to buy it."
That'd be just fun as can be to keep that truck in the family.
So I bought my brother's truck from his widow,
and I, it gives me a bit of joy
to have that, you know, so, and now of course,
it's a big enough truck. It's big, it's tough, and it will pull the RV.
There's just a couple things that happened that made me realize
-I needed a bigger truck, but not all the time. -[Janelle] Yeah.
And the problem is I don't like having equipment that I don't use.
Well, I drive this, and I love it.
I don't want to wear out this truck on a soccer mom, okay?
Okay, well then don't complain to me, [mocking Kody] "I don't want to have..."
-[Kody] Okay, the whole-- -"...equipment that I don't use." I use it.
I really do love it. I would figure out, like,
it's as big as Caleb and Maddie's truck,
and Maddie drives that thing like a boss,
so I know I can figure out how to drive this thing.
It's kind of a funny thought of, like,
seeing Janelle driving all over Flagstaff in this big, huge truck.
[Janelle] You can figure ou anything, right?
It just takes a little bit of time and some practice.
I've also head funny stories about Janelle struggling to drive big vehicles
and to do things, and stuff like that, so, I mean, I don't know.
You and I honestly need to go out to the property
-and look at where we want our home site, specifically. -[Janelle] Yeah.
I mean, the biggest thing is I'm moving into the trailer in six weeks.
I have to be out of here in six weeks.
My vision for the property is that we'll start
with what they call a casita, it's a very popular thing here.
Basically for us it'll be a detached garage with a living space above it.
In a few years or whatever, we'll build the bigger house.
It's May already, and... uh,
I'm moving onto the property at the end of June.
I really am hoping to be able to break ground by the wintertime.
[Kody] Um...
Have you, are you starting to sort out what
-you're keeping and what you're dumping? -Yeah.
-[Kody] Okay. -[Janelle] 'Cause I'm only really taking like
three suitcases worth of stuff to the trailer 'cause it's small.
She's moving into a house the size of, like, my kitchen and living room.
I don't see Kody doing well in this fifth will.
There's nothing out there. It's just bare land.
She'll figure it out. She figures out everything.
She wants to do something bad enough, she's gonna do it.
[Kody] I don't want to put all my stuff in storage.
It's not gonna have a place with Janelle.
So now I've gotta move all of my stuff from Janelle's house to Robyn's house.
Kody's always had a lot of stuff. He's always had a lot of stuff.
And in Vegas, like, he had four houses that he would put his stuff in.
So he had four of everything, right? Or mor
And now, I know he doesn't have his stuff at Meri's.
Of course he doesn't have his stuff at my house.
He can't put his stuff at Janelle's 'cause she has a little tiny trailer.
So it's either in storage somewhere or at Robyn's.
No idea where he has his stuff.
[Kody] We're kind of under the gun.
I think we need to go look at the property and figure out, um...
Well, the biggest thing is where are we gonna put the trailer?
And I did see one space that I think works really well.
We might need more than one space, though.
I agree, 'cause we have to move it every four months.
The county has a rule that you can only keep an RV or a trailer or something
on your property for 120 consecutive days.
My plan is that I should hopefully be done building in a year.
So in that year, I need to move my trailer
every 120 days to somebody else's parcel,
so that we stay within county code.
You and I need to really go out on the property and look.
Yeah, 'cause we're bringing the trailer home.
I think we're gonna have to take it right out there.
Which means that I gotta have, uh, somebody come in and pour some gravel or something out.
We should have never bought the RV 'cause we're gonna be moving it all the time.
Just do me a huge favor, and everybody else a huge favor, just,
let's talk to each one of your sister wives
and get their permission for every little aspect
of what we're doing when it comes to the property.
I'm struggling because I'm not optimistic about ho this is gonna come together
She's gotta ask permission to be on somebody else's property.
This is typical Kody, like, he's all on board for something,
and then he goes away for a couple of days, and he comes back and he's like,
"Oh, my God. We got all these problems.
"You gotta ask your sister wives. You gotta, blah, blah, blah.
Why? Like, why? I don't need their permission. We've already agreed.
I do not have time for this.
What if I don't want an RV pad in that spot
that she just decides to put her trailer temporarily?
[Robyn Brown] So there's a permanent cycle. Kody and Janelle are out there,
will they start kind of formulating ways to get these pieces paid off
so that we can get started?
Maybe this will be good.
[Kody] There's things that Janelle does frequentl
that aren't like a married husband and wife, as we do things separate.
He's no longer advocating. He's no longer acting as my husband here.
All right, honey, I'm gonna... I gotta run and do some errands.
Do you wanna go get the trailer and then we'll have the boys?
Uh, yeah. I'll go grab the trailer, and, um...
-I guess, maybe the boys will help me load the... -The piano.
-[Kody]...piano tonight. Okay. -[Janelle] All right.
She wants to get moving. She wants to get something done.
And I'm resistant because there's a lot of things to do in that process,
and it starts with asking other people
if you can park your RV on their property.
I'm not going to ask.
[Janelle] We bought the property three freakin' years ago.
We should have done this already.
[mocking Kody] "Well, maybe we should get together and talk about it again?"
No. You guys figure out what you're gonna do with your lots
'cause I need to move forward with mine.
I don't have a home in six weeks. I could not get a hold of any rentals.
I bought a trailer. I'm out there in six weeks.
[Kody] Thanks for coming, gang. We're gonna...
Just, yeah. Look at the property and give you guys
an idea, 'cause I know, Carmel, we talked about plans.
Before we start the actual house plans, I kind of want the experts
to kinda see and weigh in and see what really needs to be done here.
What I like is coming up the hill. We're out of the water a little bit.
-I mean, like, right? -[man] Exactly, yeah.
[Kody] Well, I still wanna put the RV there 'cause it's close
-to the road and easier. -[Janelle] That's fine.
[man] That'd be your driveway come in here.
[Kody] This is gonna be really satisfactory to Janelle because
where she's finally pushed u to the point where we're making a plan for something
There's a method to her madness, but it's very dangerous
to try and push around people who are resistant to what you're trying to push.
From what I understand, I don't think there's really anything that can be done yet
because we've got to pay for the property before we start doing anything.
So there's a lot of steps, still,
and I just don't know how fast that's gonna happen
I don't want anything to do with Coyote Pass...
...but it's not my land, it's their land.
They can do whatever that want with it.
So then right here is a better place for the house.
[Janelle] I think so.
Like, there's been kind of this idea
of her hopping pieces of property kind of a thing.
[chuckles] It's really not being talked about a lot.
It's just kind of happening.
I'm trying to sit here and figure out why she thinks
we're gonna be able to do this.
For me, Kody, it's really about building fast.
I feel like if there's a will, there's a way.
[Kody] Cost of lumber prices, is that really impacting the overall cost nowadays?
-Do you know? -[man] Oh, yeah.
It's the cost of everything going up right now too.
-[Kody] But it's everything. Okay. -Yeah.
I've been saving my money.
I've been scrimping and saving and sacrificing so I could build.
-[Kody] Thanks for coming. I really appreciate it. -[woman] Thank you.
I don't have anywhere to live right now,
so I'm gonna do this trailer, I'm gonna try to make it happen.
I think it's time that the family prioritizes paying off the property.
[Meri Brown] Kody actually said to me the other day,
"Why don't you just move up there?" That was not my intention.
I was there at the very beginning. I helped start this family.
It was me and him, and we had plans. He loved me.
[Meri] So, it has been...
four weeks yesterday since my mom passed away.
My mom passed away.
She was living in my bed and breakfast, and she was running that.
Her death was very sudden and unexpected.
Her clothes were just still sitting there on her bed.
And I just didn't even move them, you know?
Yeah, it was unexpected.
It's...
...been really hard, like, trying to just, like, figure out life without her,
and what to do and how to do it and...
[sighs]
Bonnie's passing was a huge shock.
Huge. I didn't know she was sick. I had no idea.
[Janelle] Bonnie was vibrant and running the B and B,
and then she just kinda got sick one day.
It was almost like she kinda had the flu, and then, like, within a week
she was gone, like her heart. It was shocking.
[Kody] You know I love Bonnie.
She was just a dear part of the family, I thought.
It was just sudden.
Obviously I have my ups and downs and...
...this week has been a down.
So, I've basically at this point, I've shut the bed and breakfast down.
I just needed time to grieve, myself,
and I needed time to figure out what to do.
Kody actually said to me the other day...
...he's like, "Why don't you just move up there?"
[chuckling] So, I'm like, "Uh, that was not my intention?"
[exhales] Well, Kody probably didn't mean this in a bad way.
At the same time, it could be completely misunderstood to a point where it's...
...you know, insensitive, and Kody does think out loud.
He has a tendency to process and be creative out loud,
and it's frightening sometimes,
and not even, and maybe not even sensitive, you know?
It was something that just didn't need to be said.
[Christine] I never thought Meri bought this place so she would move there.
She bought this so her family would have it back in her family.
She's made that so abundantly clear that she's not going to live there.
I can't tell you how many times she's made that abundantly clear.
From the very beginning she's not been interested in living there permanently.
You know, I told him I didn't want to.
I told him I had no intention of doing that,
and he was kind of surprised, you know? He was like, "Oh, really?"
I was there at the very beginning. I helped start this family.
It was me and him, and we had plans. He loved me.
For him to just be like, "Uh, you know, just go up there now." [chuckles]
It didn't make sense.
[sniffles] I guess I'm still just in this place with him,
or he's still in this place where he thinks that, like,
the point of me buying this was
to get away.
And...
...that really saddens me a lot.
The reason I'm suggesting this to Meri is, honestly, as a family,
anymore it doesn't feel lik we actually interact that much.
I'm not even trying to push her away, I'm just...
She's laying this burden that she has at my feet,
about the struggle she has about what to do with Lizzie's Heritage Inn,
and now that her mom's passed, and I'm like,
"Well, here's a solution for you."
I'm sorry to let Kody or anybody else in my family
who thinks that I just want to move up here.
You know, it's like, I just, I feel bad that after so long
we're still having this conversation.
I think that when Kody and got married, and then when Janelle married him,
and then when Christine came in the family,
and then even when Robyn came in the family,
I think that we had this ideal that we would
be able to get through everything.
And I really want...
...to have those conversations.
I really want to have those relationships,
and I think that things can be healed where people want to heal them.
And if we don't...
...I don't know what our family's gonna look like.
I just feel like I'm, like, doing all I can to, um...
...reassure people that I'm not going anywhere.
Christine having had the discussion with us that she did
about, you know, leaving and wanting to move to Utah,
really affects me.
Dealing with all this, plus the B and B, plus losing mom,
plus my conflict with Kody, I need to just figure out...
...what it is that I can control...
...that I can get through.
At this point, I just, I don't know what to do. I am lost...
I feel empty.
I feel...
[clicks tongue]...like I have to figure out a lot of stuff.
And I don't know how to figure it out, and, um...
And the house just feels really empty without mom here.
So...
I'll just keep working on it, I guess.
[sighs]
Some days I feel better, and I can go out
and see people, and I can put on more of a bright face,
but there's days that I just don't want to, and I don't feel capable...
...and so I just stay in my house.
[sniffles]
[Kody] The house that Janelle is renting is selling.
She's not buying it, so we're moving out.
She looks in the marketplace for a day, half hour,
immediately went, "Well, I can't find a place,
so I'm going to buy an RV." [laughs]
So, we're gonna go see the RV, like, that I bought site unseen.
-Yeah. -[laughing]
So, today we're looking at the RV I actually purchased,
but we won't take it home now for about a month.
So, we're gonna go see the trailer, so I can get an idea what it looks like
and how much stuff to bring when I move in,
and then we'll go back and get it in a few weeks.
We're here at the RV place, it's Janelle's birthday,
and we're looking at her birthday present.
No, Kody did not buy this for me. I don't know what he's talking about.
This is me buying this. I guess it's my birthday present to myself.
[chuckles] I never told... I joked about Janelle
having the RV for her birthday.
It was more like her birthday present to herself.
I never made any innuendo, none, that I had bought the RV.
We can't pick it up for, like, another week and a half or so,
but we're gonna go see if I really bought what I thought I bought.
-That's the scary thing. -That's gonna be interesting.
-Yeah. -So, let's go.
[Janelle] All right.
I don't want to be a Negative Nelly,
but, I, like, one day it's like,
"Ok, 'kay. This will be cool." And the next day, I'm like,
"Oh, my goodness. This is ridiculous."
I have not seen a picture of the actual trailer I bought.
This is everything you should not do in a transaction.
[Kody] What?
-[Janelle] You've got your pass? -[Kody] In my pocket.
So we're getting out of our truck
and I'm, like, "Well, let's film the big reveal."
And she's, like, "No, no, no. I don't want...
Let's go look at it first, I don't want it... No, don't film it."
I don't think anyone's wearing a mask anymore.
Oh, I'm just following you a little ways.
We didn't shoot us at the trailer,
because Janelle was too vulnerable.
All right, now let's go.
Could you please?
[Kody] No, I'm not going to, I was just going to film you walking over a bit.
I think I saw it online and I'm, like, "Oh, that's big. No, no, it's big."
Like, it's big, you step up like, three steps to get into it and it's massive.
It's small, it just seems big, because we're not in it.
I really like it, I'm glad it's so big,
because, honestly, Savanah and I need to live in this.
I'm still moving forward in my life.
And I'm trying to move myself forward
and improve my situation and get a house built,
but all around me it feels like there's all this
chaos and uncertainty, because Christine is leaving.
What does it mean? Are the kids gonna come home all together for the holidays?
Like, there's all these huge...
Like, I feel like I'm on this little path
and there's all these big question marks all around me
and all I can do is just keep moving forward
and try to be open and flexible to whatever the future looks like.
We're throwing Ysabel a graduation party.
Hi! You're so pretty!
[Robyn] There's so many issu still kind of happening.
So I'm a little bit nervous, 'cause I'm, like, "Okay,
are we gonna be able to be around each other or is it gonna be tense?"
[Janelle] So I have about two and half weeks
before I have to be out of my rental house.
The boys have been a godsend.
They've really helped with the packing
and then helping me move the heavy boxes.
[Kody] Janelle and I are in the middle of moving.
We've got to pick up an RV in a week or so.
We've got two and half weeks before we're supposed to be out of this house.
Basically, having moved all of our stuff into storag units and living in the RV.
We're pretty strung out.
I know some family members who, the idea of us living in this RV,
makes them cringe.
I probably wouldn't consider living in a RV on the property.
There's not a big enough RV for my five kids.
[chuckling] Yeah, let's just stick to that.
Living in an RV is not something
that I would want to do, unless I was actually, like, traveling the country.
[Kody] I'm meeting with my friend, my neighbor Pete Page,
an he's a buddy of mine who moves dirt.
[Janelle] Pete is putting in culverts where the water
would naturally come down off the hill,
so that it doesn't wash out the driveway.
So a culvert is basically this metal pipe
that runs under whatever roadway you're building
and allows the water to flow through.
[Kody] The whole thing just makes me feel,
like, a lot of pressure to do a lot of something
that we can't get done completely right now.
It's a stretching of a budget that's got...
Ugh, It's nerve-racking.
I imagined, um, that where we put the trailer
would be the edge of where the drive would kind of come up.
Christine's leaving, that actually doesn't chang
my motivation for putting five houses on Coyote Pass.
My whole motivation of having five homes there would be, you know,
a house for Janelle, a house for Robyn, a house for Meri
and then the two other lots Christine's lot and my lot,
would be so that we can rent them out as well.
That's called an asset, that helps, basically, us survive our retirement.
My life is in a form of limb because Christine's leaving
and I don't know what that looks like.
I've been sort of in the anger phase of divorce
and so I've not been addressing it very well.
You know, so I guess this construction project with Janelle and Pete,
kind of one of those things to get my mind
off of my divorce frustration, but I...
Dude, I am in the anger phase and every once in a while,
I just get tied up in knots over Christine leaving.
[Christine] So, then I'm gon drape it right here for you and this way it won't go.
Now don't blow up any more greens until you really need them, okay?
We're throwing Ysabel a graduation party,
a huge graduation party, well, as big as we can have today.
You're doing great, thank you.
Ysabel wants to travel really bad after graduation
so we're having a world theme.
Uh, we have a lot of decorations,
but they're not staying and... The food's done.
I need everybody's help.
I need Gwen's help, I need Ysabel's help,
I need Truely's help for today.
Well, Kody calls Ysabel and says, "Hey,
how about if we go hang out today before your party?"
And I almost freakin' lost it.
Instead of Kody saying, "Hey, do you need some help with Ysabel's party?"
'Cause it's his daughter, God. [exclaims in frustration] Okay.
I have to have Gwendlyn run a couple of errands, so I have Truely's help.
You're doing great, kid.
You're living your best life, I like it.
I want to support Kody's relationship
with his kids, so I'm going to play nice.
Things are not gonna get done though, I'm just telling you now.
The best part is that everyone has either had a COVID test or they're vaccinated.
And everybody that lives in Flagstaff is coming
and we get to hug and touch people.
And that's what Ysabel was hoping for
was to get everybody together, um, so everybody can hug.
So that's really what this is all about.
I just told the adults a few weeks ago
that I was leaving Kody and I was moving back to Utah,
hopefully in September.
No secret that Kody and I have been in a rough spot for a long time.
And I've decided to leave.
I'm gonna leave Kody.
We haven't talked since.
I knew it was asking a lot of them
to get together just two weeks after I told them I was leaving Kody,
but I also wanted them to know that this might be
one of the last times we get together.
Christine has told us that she's leaving Kody for good.
So I'm a little bit nervous, 'cause I'm, like, "Okay,
are we gonna be able to be around each other and be normal
and natural and comfortable or is it gonna be tense?"
I don't know what kids know that I'm leaving Kody.
All of my kids, except for Truely know,
um, and I know that Janelle's kids know,
but I don't know about Robyn's kids or Mariah, I really have no idea.
[Janelle] My kids know Christine's leaving.
I don't think Gabriel and Garrison are really that concerned,
'cause they're already talking about visiting Christine in Utah.
They just see it as a disruption, not a discontinuation.
[Kody] Okay, you guys can get out of your seats now.
I told all my kids, even Sol and Ari,
about what's going on with Christine.
Dayton and Breanna are sad and confused and frustrated. Sol and Ari are so confused.
And so sad.
Oh, look, it's Gabe, Garrison and Savanah.
[all exclaiming]
For a lot of reasons, we haven't gotten together, COVID being one of them.
Come on and hug me.
There's so many issues still kind of happening
that it was just, like, it's too raw to get together.
I don't know exactly, but, you know, I... I don't know.
[Ysabel] Hi! You're so pretty!
[Kody] Go and say hi.
[Ysabel] Ariella!
[Kody] I'm really glad the kids are able to all interact now,
just be able to say hi to each other.
You look so good.
Hi, you!
[Christine] This is kind of also a farewell for Ysabel too, a little bit
I mean, in a couple of month Ysabel and I are driving cross-country.
And she's gonna live with Maddie and Caleb
and go to school in North Carolina.
[indistinct conversation]
[Kody] I'm really happy that the kids are all havin a really good time.
I cannot get out from under this cloud of sadness.
And it's because of the nuance of a break up.
And I don't know what this is going to lead to.
I don't know what else is going to go on.
I was honestly relieved when I heard my mom was leaving my dad.
They're not happy, they're not in love.
[all singing] Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you.
With my mom and dad getting a divorce, I did see it coming.
Of course, like, I'm sad about it.
[Christine] Right now, I'm just trying to be presen here and just focus here.
[woman] Where do you want these?
-[Christine] Oh, inside for now. -[woman] Inside? Okay.
I think with my mom and my dad getting a divorce,
if I'm honest, I did see it coming.
But, of course, like, I'm sad about it, like, sometimes it just doesn't work out.
And I'm happy that my mom will be able to find somebody
who she's really, really, really happy with.
I was honestly relieved when I heard my mom was leaving my dad.
They're not happy, they're not in love.
I thought it was a little inevitable.
I can't imagine any man being perfect enough
to be able to handle four wives.
[Kody] I've got, what feels like,
very strained relationships with a bunch of the kids.
I'm not in a good place with everybody.
And it's not that I'm trying to be angry
or trying to hold them accountable in this moment or anything like that.
I don't feel like I've got the respect that I should have.
No, I'm not okay. I'm here in a...
I'm here, I'm in a funk.
It's kind of, uh, this loneliness,
combined with a bitterness with the entire family.
[Christine] Okay, everybody!
Hey, everybody, it's time to gather up.
I'm gonna get the cake ready, we can sing happy birthday to Yzzy.
[Janelle] So, Ysabel, you're 18.
[Christine] All right, this is a birthday slash graduation.
[Kody] Are you sweet 17?
[Ysabel] Uh, I'm almost sweet 18.
-Oh, yeah, you're... -[Ysabel] This is an 18 party.
-Yeah, so you're sweet 18. -[exclaims]
Finally I'm sweet.
That'll get you a new car.
Whoo!
-[woman] Thank you, I'm excited. -That was worth it, yeah!
It was worth it because you didn't waste the kisses on any stupid boys.
A sweet 16 birthday party is a birthday party where the girl hasn't been kissed.
I don't know where this term came from.
It was something I was hearing in high school,
was, you know, the girl who hasn't ever kissed a boy.
Young men and young women, or men and women, should both do the same thing.
You protect yourself, you find trust before you're driven mad with sexuality.
[all singing] Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you.
[Ysabel] We kind of jumped right back to where we were
before the COVID hit back, we're just, like, family again.
Which is really nice.
[all singing] Happy birthday to you.
-[all cheering] -Thank you, guys.
-[Kody] I don't even think you got them all. -Not even any of them.
[Robyn] It feels like old times for sure right now.
And I just kind of wanna hang on to this moment,
'cause I just don't know when the next time will be that we'll be doing this.
[woman 1] I think you should tell some stories
about these pictures, like, they're--
[woman 2] Oh, good idea!
This is a fun picture with Gwendlyn and Savanah.
We're trying to distract Ysabel,
so we can kind of set up for this song,
but we wanted to do something special for her.
So we're setting up a guitar and a mic,
so that we can sing this song for Ysabel
and we're trying to distract her over here while we get set up.
This is... I love this one where she's just, like, snarfing.
[Ysabel] That was my first birthday.
-Making a mess of herself. -That one is? Your first birthday?
[Ysabel] Yeah.
[Christine] Aurora's gonna start plucking away on her guitar
and then start doing the song.
And then I'm gonna sing and then Gabe's gonna join in
and then everybody's gonna join in.
I'm excited, they practiced so well.
As far as I know, this is a complete surprise for her.
[laughing] I did practice the song, yeah.
[strumming guitar]
Oh, no. No.
Oh, my God. Wait, I'm gonna cry.
♪ I am unwritten ♪
♪ Can't read my mind ♪
♪ I'm undefined, yeah ♪
[Christine] It's a very appropriate song for someone who's graduating
♪ Feel the rain on your skin ♪
♪ No one else can Feel it for you ♪
♪ Only you can let it in ♪
♪ No one else No one else ♪
♪ Can speak the words On your lips ♪
[Kody] She starts hearing the song and we've got her immediatel
♪ Release your inhibitions ♪
♪ Feel the rain on your skin ♪
♪ No one else Can feel it for you ♪
♪ Only you can let it in ♪
♪ No one else No one else ♪
♪ Can speak the words On your lips ♪
[Christine] It was really sweet for them to do
and, you know, the three of those girls are really pretty close.
♪ Today is where Your book begins ♪
Oh, you guys are so sweet.
♪ The rest is Still unwritten ♪
Bravo! That was beautiful. Thank you, guys, I appreciate it.
Ah, I was perfect.
And then the best part, Ysabel was surprised and then she was touched.
And she loved it.
So it just... It's the best.
How does this not work for everybody?
Why isn't this something we're staying for?
The message that we had to the world about polygamy
um, seems so dysfunctional now.
I'm just excited to be here, it's like it's healing, it's nice.
[Ysabel] The party I think went really well.
I think everyone had a good time.
I think, overall, it was successful.
[Meri] The graduation party was a crazy thing.
Especially since Ysabel is moving away.
She just glows happiness.
It's gonna be kind of a bummer not to be able to see her very often.
Thank you, I appreciate it so much.
I appreciate you.
I'm glad we were able to do that for you.
[Christine] I'm extremely proud of her.
Um, she's just full of grace and kindness.
And just sweet, but so much strength.
-You ready? -[Ysabel] I'm ready.
[Christine] And she's dealt with so much, scoliosis, migraines.
She's had it rougher than the rest of my kids, yet here she is,
glowing and shining and amazing.
She's an amazing person.
You guys are amazeballs!
[Janelle] So now she's gonn move to North Carolina
and live with Maddie and Caleb.
And it's gonna be really great,
'cause she will be able to out and kind of experience
the world outside her mom's home and outside of Flagstaff,
but she'll be sort of in a safe, protected environment,
cause Maddie and Caleb will be there.
[Robyn] It's strange, becaus like, we're in this moment and we're having a nice time
How is this wrong? How does this not work for everybody?
Why isn't this something worth fighting for?
Why isn't this something worth staying for?
I don't know, I'm just one of those peopl who hopes constantly
that maybe something will spark for someone
and they'll just go, "Oh, this is worth figuring out and sticking around."
Because, I don't know, I would look at it and think that.
That's your grandbaby, really? That's nice.
[Kody] Let's just put it there, Robyn.
He could make Christine feel, like, "Hey, this is worth staying for."
I believe God can, um, make miracles happen.
I wonder if it's a game.
[Meri] You know, when I loo at days like this,
when we're all together and we're smiling
and we're setting the crap aside.
Like, why can't we do that?
Why can't we work on the things that we need to work on between each other?
We're not doing justice to our family
and we're not doing, you know, justice to Ariella and Solomon and Truely,
these little ones who really need to have that security of family.
I'm devoted to, you know, doing what I need to do.
I know that not everybody is.
[Janelle] It feels there's storms brewing in the family
I don't know what they mean
I don't know what the outcome will be.
I, personally, am not very optimistic
that we'll see very many days like this.
Did you say the quiche is gluten-free?
The quiche is gluten-free, yes.
Kody is not one to hide his emotions though.
He's more, like, gonna show you how he's feeling.
And I think he's just super sad. And it's bittersweet.
He loves Ysabel and he hasn't spent enough time with her
and I think he's probably realizing that.
[Kody] This evening has gon off without a hitch.
It's been wonderful and I think Ysabel has felt special.
I'm just blue.
Sol, pull your britches up.
We will never be there agai if we really go through this Christine is leaving.
Is she really going to leave
I'm living in a delusional world where I'm wishing that Christine wouldn't leave.
I was wishing Ysabel would go to school here.
We would be able to maintain some quasi-family relationship.
I'm struggling with...
...sort of a state of regre and frustration.
It's a weird thing to be getting left.
It's made me question getting into plural marriage
It's made me question my faith and especially, question my religion.
The message that we had to the world about functional polygamy, um,
seems so dysfunctional now.
[narrator reading]
I just told Truely that I'm moving to Utah.
I don't know how I feel about that.
It feels hostile to me.
I don't want to be antagonistic or disagreeable
But I don't wanna agree to anything.
Hey, you have a new house.
I'm boondocking. There's no septic, there's no water.
And there's no power.
Oh, this is great, it's big.
I do not wanna live in the trailer.
Janelle has a tiny, little kitchen
and a tiny, little house and a tiny, little bathroom
Why am I gonna sit here and suffer with you with your choices?
[Christine] So Mykelti calle me and we were talking about me moving to Utah.
But I looked behind me and there was Truely.
That was the worst conversation of my life.