[narrator] Previously on Sister Wives..
[Christine] Isabelle's movin to North Carolina.
There's nothing that can prepare you to say goodbye.
It's super cool that, Matty Janelle's daughter,
and Isabelle, my daughter, are super close.
They're raised with this big huge family,
in this big huge family picture.
But by leaving Kody, I'm really changing the dynamic.
When I tell you that keeps me up at night,
believe me that keeps me up at night.
Make sure you're showing your best side.
Jen and I just have this awesome relationship where we just laugh.
I've had those kind of relationships within my family before,
but my family is kind of wei right now.
And it feels good to matter to somebody.
[Christine] Kody, Meri, Janelle and Robyn are all coming over,
'cause I need to tell them that my house is under contract.
I'm angry about Christine leaving the family.
[Kody] We never made an official agreement.
We never went to our church leaders
and said, "Hey, we're divorced."
You know, would they even allow us a divorce.
I was sitting there talking with Truely,
and she's like, "Well, you and mom are divorced."
It was a little bit news to me.
Technically, till Christine is physical with another man
she's not divorced.
[Kody] So Christine's got the five of us together.
Her house in under contract it's being sold.
And she has just told us that she's moving in a week.
This is a very difficult conversation.
A year ago when I looked at mine and Kody's relationship
and just wasn't... really felt like I couldn't stay.
But I hadn't quite decided to move and to leave.
And I looked at our relationship, how I was,
I just got to thinking,
it's not a relationship I would wish on any friend of mine.
But you said you didn't wanna be married to me anymore
when we were talking about moving to Utah.
So that conversation...
I thought my interpretation of the conversation
was at the end of the conversation.
I thought that you might be on team we can move.
Polygamy got you criminalized.
And I wonder why we're still here.
We can move back home.
I wanna move back.
I'm in a place where I feel like my kids love it here.
This is the most likely place for any of our kids to move back,
our adult kids.
I'm surprised because I thought
Kody was more in favor of this.
But he's acting like we've never even talked about this,
and that he wasn't in favor of it last time we talked.
Meri, I can't do marriage with Kody anymore.
I don't wanna... I don't wanna do it anymore.
We're you open to it?
We're you open to moving, Kody?
I didn't wanna move. I liked the idea of living in Utah.
I don't like the idea of moving.
To me he was open to Utah,
-end of the conversation. -But I wonder,
isn't this bigger than just that?
I mean, this is bigger than just that.
This wasn't just about the move to Utah,
-No. -this wasn't just about...
It was just one of those things
where I was, like, "Am I really just on my own already?"
That's what it felt like.
'Cause I thought before, like, really, honestly.
He was giddy when we talked about moving to--
No. No, no, no, no.
I remember it different. It's fine, I mean...
This is what I remember.
I was interested in the family, not in the man.
That's been your mantra.
But it became about the man, and not about the family.
And that I think is my angry place.
That's the reason I'm struggling with this.
It's 'cause we've invested, invested, invested,
and it wasn't about the family, it was about the man.
And this is my frustration.
And it's also my accusation.
I'm angry that you weren't willing to invest in the family,
but you were only interested in what I could do for you.
Me as a resource for you.
And it breaks my heart
'cause now we're at this point where it's just over, and it's done.
I thank you for coming into the family,
and help me sort of gather out this mess that I was in.
It stings when he says that
because it's directed at me, probably.
[Meri] You know when Janelle came into the famil I was jealous.
I was sad because I didn't have the time with him that I had prior.
You know, I was young,
I was not yet [laughs] fully mature,
uh, nor was he or her, you know. I mean, we just...
We're dealing with a lot of new situations.
And so, he's like, "Oh, let's get Christine and come and save the day."
And that... that stings.
I also thank you for ripping off the Band-Aid so quickly
because it was never going to work if it all had to be about me,
as you had always indicated it wasn't.
[Janelle] I think that's a low blow.
I think she was about the family.
She's been about the family, she's been about the kids.
And she needed more of relationship with hi
You know, I think there's a point
where you stick around and you try to make it work,
and then there's a point where it just doesn't work anymore.
And why be miserable, miserable for years, decades.
You came into our lives, you did us a favor.
You're leaving, I almost feel like it's a favor too.
[Robyn sighs]
But I don't know because I'm still upset,
'cause I'm trying to figure this out.
This is awkward. They're sort of
hashing out their relationship in front of us.
[sighs]
What else, if they talk.
If they're talking.
[Robyn] I believe that there's always a chance for a miracle.
People go through, like... get close to divorce
and then change their mind all the time.
She may say she's divorced,
but in my head, technically, she's not.
So I'm just kinda like, well, maybe they can talk this out.
So... [sighs]
-Don't word it, just think about what I said. -Uh-huh, no.
Um...
Soak in that.
Wow. You better not give my any rebuttal, just listen to what I said.
I mean, I don't know who this patriarchal guy is
'cause this is not the guy I was married to for years.
I did love you. I did have a family
of having sister wives, of raising kids together.
If you and I don't have a good marriage,
and, like, this is an important part of having a plural family,
that each relationship and each marriage is strong too.
We always talk about this spokes in the wheel,
and when there's a spoke that's broken,
how do we keep it going? And so I stayed.
I made it about the family. I did so much for the family.
[indistinct chatter]
[Christine] It was all about having family function
family get-togethers, and family parties.
My house was always open to everybody.
I loved he big family activities that we had.
The big family is great.
But when you feel like you're a minimal person in Kody's big picture,
and really don't even matter in the big picture,
it changes the perspective on everything.
I've been heartbroken for years.
For years I've been heartbroken
in our relationship.
-I'm just tired of being heartbroken... -Because you've...
-...just tired. -No big picture, just you.
You don't think I stayed for the big picture as long as I did?
I guess. I guess.
-'Cause I wanted it to work. -Thank you. I just wasn't...
I don't know.
There's this realization of, um, screw it.
You know, it's like, "Listen this has been bad for a long time,"
and I sat here whining about it breaking up recently.
Whereas I'm lucky it even lasted this long.
I'm coming to that realizati that I'm so upset about how this has gone down.
And I don't know the exact reason, I don't know.
I think I'm angry because when you get divorced you're supposed to be.
I have no idea what's going on with me,
but I'm really upset by this.
And if I really boil it down,
if I bring it to the core of what's going on,
it feels like after all I've done, I'm being rejected anyway.
And it's just not rejection for me,
it's rejection for some of my kids, and my other wives.
I have seen her non-acceptance of Robyn through the years.
She's treated you like dirt from the very beginning.
That's the relationship you have with her,
and that's the reason I'm angry
That's the reason I'm pissed off.
I just feel like, now that she's leaving,
I just felt like giving her a piece of my mind without leaving.
[sobbing]
So I'm curious, in all of this
it seems like my relationship with all the kids,
the adult kids, is really off too.
Have you been talking to the adult kids about this?
No, we don't. We rarely--
No one wants to talk about this.
Think your relationship is off with your kids
because of COVID, not because of me.
Bull. You're telling them.
It's Christine telling them.
She's running to this person, to this person,
to this person,
to complain about the relationship.
She's playing a game. She's been playing games for years.
I just call bull [bleep]
[scoffs]
I...
I cannot figure out why I'm so angry.
I mean, it's sad.
I've seen you grieving, Kody,
like in a way I've never seen you grieve before.
You disguise it,
but it's grief.
I don't know how to explain it, he's just been off.
He's gone to a more angry place quickly... quicker than he ever did.
I finally realized it's a grieving process for him.
I guess, maybe I'm mad because I feel
like an investor who poured everything that he had into something,
and then, you know, it just didn't work.
In our marriage I was putting so much effort.
I was holding her hand, I was kissing her.
Well, I wasn't in love.
I was doing it as my duty as a husband.
And she's not either.
I mean, she quit loving me years ago.
And now that we're here, I'm just so upset.
Because it's like... It's not the breakup of two people,
it's the breakup of a family.
Is it too much of a shock?
Hass anybody else got anything to say, or is it just...
You have a look on your face like you know the whole world,
but you're not gonna say something.
-What? -You look like the bird that ate the mouse.
What do you think I have to say?
[laughs]
I don't know why he's saying this to me,
I really don't. I mean, I've had plenty of thoughts throughout the conversation,
but they're really not...
It's really not my business to say.
Tone in her voice says it all, doesn't it?
No. I really don't know what you're talking about.
I know Meri's ticks, I know her.
She's leaking emotionally,
uh, and I recognize it after all these years.
It drives me nuts normally,
but now I'm looking forward to sort of be supportive.
Really, I feel like I'm swimming...
[sighs] in some really deep water,
and I'm looking for somebody to throw me a life raft here.
'Cause I think this is the last time
we're ever gonna have this discussion,
-right? So... -Meet here and talk here?
Well, yeah. The house will be sold, you'll be gone. This is it.
And I'm the only one saying something,
and I'm just a mixed ball of emotions.
You're not the only one that's saying something.
I'm struggling today, so...
I'll do better another day.
[Robyn] This whole thing that she's telling us today is just a shock.
I don't know. Today I just know that I'm not...
I'm not completely calm. I'm struggling.
Somedays I get really, like, "Hey, we'll figure this out.
We'll figure out someway to still make it be cohesive
and workable, and that kind of thing." I don't know about today.
It's a strange world to be going through a divorce
I guess, while you're married to somebody who's loyal and loving.
But she's been going through it with me.
She came in this family cap in hand,
saying, "Please accept me. Please accept my children."
She with me is being rejected.
Dealing with a lot of anger and mourning...
I don't mean to push you away, I'm just frustrated.
You're not pushing me away. I know you're frustrated,
and I know you're angry, and I know it's hard.
[sighs] Hmmm.
[Kody] My emotions feels so pathetic
that I'm frustrated by it.
Plural marriage isn't easy.
And on a bad day you can feel trapped in it.
And she's getting out the...
the lobster bucket.
I'm in this really hard lifestyle,
partly because of her.
And it has been very very hard,
partly because of her.
And she's just leaving now.
[Robyn] I have definitely been mourning
the loss of the family culture.
Are you interested in, like, trying to work stuff out,
maybe from the past how many years?
I think for right now I need space.
-[Robyn] Okay. -For right now.
[Meri] Well, I may as well stand up and leave.
There's no point of me being here in this conversation.
It's kind of that last little bit of hope sort of dying.
[scoffs]
So... Okay, I guess I have a question.
Are you in a place where you just wanna go do your thing?
And those of the kids that have relationship with you,
you'll spend time with them, or whatever.
And then the rest of us, that, maybe you don't have a great relationship with,
do we just need to, like, give you your space?
Are you interested in some sort of a...
like, trying to work stuff out,
maybe from the past how many years?
I think for right now I need space.
-[Robyn] Okay. -For right now.
[Robyn] I have definitely been mourning
the loss of the family culture, and...
You know, there's this part of me...
There's this part of me that wondered, you know,
if Kody's not in the picture for her,
will it be easier for her to have a relationship with me and my kids.
And, so...
So that's what I'm kind of asking.
Um, but I do see us getting together for family reunions,
and I do see us having fun together, and...
Is that the extent of what you want?
-Just a family reunion? -For now, yeah.
Okay.
As far as the relationships with the other adults,
I think Janelle and I are super close,
but I'm not that close with the rest of you.
And for right now...
I kinda need it that way.
[sniffling]
It's kind of that last little bit of hope sort of dying.
My immediate thought was,
"Well, I may as well just stand up and leave,"
'cause there's no point of me being here in this conversation.
She doesn't wanna work on anything.
And I have seen her non-acceptance of Robyn.
And I have seen her disdain for me through the years.
So as much as it hurts me,
um, I'm glad to know where she actually stands.
Look, I'm not trying to end it that way though.
-To me it's not the end. -[Robyn] No, listen.
-It's kinda like... -This isn't like a...
This isn't like a... It's not a trap question.
-I didn't think so. -It's a real question.
I think it's a real question too,
and I appreciate the real question.
It's like, I don't know what I am.
She's treated you like dirt from the very beginning.
That's the relationship you have with her,
and that's the reason I'm angry.
That's the reason I'm pissed off, is because...
You never tried to have a good relationship with these other people!
And that's the reason I'm pissed off.
-That's not true. Yes, I did. -It's just vomiting out of me
because I've sat here with it
just like, "Christine try and do this."
You wanted to renegotiate a relationship with me,
but you wouldn't even have a decent one with them.
Always about the kids, that was the easy part.
Man!
Just the knife in the kidneys over all these years.
[Kody whispers] Oh, no.
[in normal voice] And the sacrifices that I made, to love you!
Wasted!
Accountability is what I've been asking for here.
And you are running away, rather than being accountable.
You're like, "I'm divorced. [snaps fingers] I'm leaving.
I'm done with you. You're out of my house."
Instead of actually making the relationships work and trying.
If you're not trying to be your best self in this relationship
or in this family, then you are wasting your time.
Marriage is a call to be better than you are.
Plural marriages are a higher call.
[exhales]
Okay, look, I never tried to treat anybody like crap.
I never tried. I never did.
But you did.
-Well, I'm sorry, I didn't want to. -[bleep]
...so much!
I didn't mean to.
[Kody] Oh, gosh.
And you admitted to it.
And you couldn't correct it.
And now we're sitting here with a broken family over it.
And you're like the fricking Pied Piper.
-You're trying to take the kids with you. -No, that's not even-- Okay.
[Kody sighs]
I could sit here and dissect everything that Kody has said,
and give you my point.
But we've done this for year
I'm tired.
It doesn't matter, it's over.
So, thank you. Thank you for coming. It was a blessing.
Thank you for leaving.
Cause now, I'm sitting here trying to find the silver lining.
Uh, I just hope it's a blessing.
[Kody exhales]
I just feel like, for the past 14 years, I've just been sucking it up with her.
Y'know, just trying to be a loving husband.
And now that she's leaving,
I just felt like giving her a piece of my mind without leaving.
And this ain't my fault, you did this, is what I feel like.
I don't care if that's not fair. That's how I feel.
She did this.
She's gonna go around telling my kids that I didn't love her.
I feel like she needs to realize, here with this,
that she wasn't loving me.
[Christine whines] Thanks, honey.
I'm not trying to take sides, but I feel like Kody was really harsh.
Even though he tried to dilute it a little bit,
it seemed very pointing to one relationship.
I just feel like, being a good sister wife,
it takes both sides. It takes reciprocation, it takes work on all the sides.
And work on the part of the husband.
[Kody] J anelle has a great deal of sympathy for Christi during this divorce.
But it's a disappointment, it's a sadness to me.
Because what Janelle has showed me is no tenderness, no kindness, no empathy,
while I'm going through the divorce.
-I didn't try and be anything. -I know.
I think it's emotion.
-I didn't try to be a bad anything. -It's emotion.
[Meri] This is not just emotions.
That response from Kody was not just emotion.
That response from Kody was real.
And he said some things he probably has been holding in for a long time.
I'm glad he said it.
[Christine] I-- Why don't they talk to me?
If my sister wives are mad at me, why don't they talk to me?
Instead of talking to Kody. It doesn't help.
I know that in our family, every one of us,
has had a conversation with another one of us, about another one of us.
It has happened with Robyn, with Kody, Janelle and Christine.
Like, everybody.
[Robyn] I learned very earl on in my relationship with Kody,
venting my frustrations about a sister wife didn't work.
It made him angry, it made him upset and I realized,
I was talking about someone he loved.
Christine, for two years now, was constantly complaining
about her sister wives and w she didn't wanna live with them in one house.
It hasn't been the other wives tattling or backstabbing her or anything like that.
It's been her telling me how she felt about them.
I guess, y'know, I wanted to double check. Y'know, it sounds like
you must continue to have
the relationships with the people you're close with,
and um, those that you aren't close with, um, they just--
You just wanted to stay distant.
-[Robyn] Okay, all right. -For right now.
Sorry to see you go.
[Robyn] Through the years, as I have had issues with Christine,
I've tried very hard
to approach her, to try to talk to her, to text her, to call her.
I was met with walls, rejection.
Um, just her not wanting to discuss things through.
I feel like there's been some things said against me behind my back.
So do I wanna be friends with someone who complains about me behind my back?
Well, not right now.
[Robyn sobbing]
I think this is one of the saddest conversations I've ever been in.
I don't regret leaving at all, though.
I still stand firm that leaving is 100% the right thing to do.
And moving and getting away is definitely the right thing to do.
But I'm sorry I'm leaving a mess behind.
[Robyn sobbing]
So, about a week ago, Christine announced to me and the other wives
that she was moving. That the house was sold and she was leaving.
I guess this became the ultimate awareness for me,
where I finally had to admit she's leaving and I had a meltdown.
But I'm trying to put that to the side.
And, uh, go on with my other relationships as best I can.
[Janelle] Since we all talke to Christine at her house,
we've all sort of retreated back to our little holes.
So I don't know, I haven't seen anybody, I don't know what everybody is planning.
But I have to keep moving forward on the property.
I don't know if it means I'm gonna live here alone or what,
but, my eggs are all in this basket and I'm just moving forward.
APS came out and I talked to them about everything.
-[Kody] About electric? -Mmm-hmm.
APS stands for Arizona Public Service.
They're basically the provider for electricity in this area.
So, we can't get electric for an empty lot.
It's a little but intimidating to think about staying over the winter.
I-- I think, may be it might work without electricity.
I'd have to have--
I don't know. I'm willing to try.
Because I believe so much in staying out here
and bringing this house to fruition.
[Kody] Like, okay, so we could get electric with a permit for building though, right?
[Janelle] Yeah, I mean, so that's down the road.
But in October, I'm gonna have to move up there for a little bit.
So, I've been at the trailer two months.
It's mid-August, I have two more months before the permit runs out.
In our county, we only can stay on our own property
for four months a year in a trailer.
So I have to have somewhere to go for November, December, January, February.
Hopefully, by February, I'll start building.
So I had planned to move up to lot 3, which was gonna b Christine's lot,
for the winter.
I know my heat works cause I've been using it.
I mean, I'm really good to try--
-Your generator's working really good, right? -Yeah, I know, it's so great!
My heat is propane and I have these very big tanks.
And I just need a generator or a battery,
which I would charge up the battery during the day and it runs all night.
I can run the heater.
So, I'm willing to try it.
I-- It's a really big difference,
um, in Flagstaff, living in town, versus living out here.
The winters are harsher, it's colder.
Way more snow, it's just a hard winter.
And I can't even imagine trying to do it in...
But, basically, y'know, I've-- Savanah's settled in. She's okay.
-Yeah. -[Janelle] Y'know what I mean? She's doing all right.
So my ultimate goal with building would be to have a house built
by the time Savanah goes to her senior year.
That is about a year from no
I'm up against huge odds to make this happen.
But the plans are being drawn.
I know what it's gonna look like, I can visualize it in my head.
I want this to happen.
So I can be done by next school year, if it gets-- If everything stays on track.
Hmm.
There-- There's so many moving parts to this.
And she keeps trying to move forward without coming back to the one main thing.
That's the main thing.
We have to pay off the property.
We do not have the means to pay off the property.
Therefore, we cannot get the lots organized the way we need to.
Christine is picking up and she's moving to Utah.
We're done. She's done with us, she's out.
She's leaving, so she's basically handing over
her value in Coyote Pass to me
as exchange for my equity in her house that she's selling.
But we can't pay off Coyote Pass by selling off a lot.
Cause we've got to-- We need to pay it off so we can reconfigure it,
so we get more value out of it.
Y'know, I mean, like, may be it's a horrible other thing and I give up.
But part of me is like, I'm just determined,
to try to make this work.
Hmm. Okay.
Look, Kody has never really been engaged in my housing since I moved here.
He was mad when I went from my first rental to my second rental,
even though the second rental was much bigger.
He was mad because it wasn't as nice.
But you know what, he has a house that he lives in
upon the hill with Robyn and it's really nice.
And I have nothing. So I'm trying hard to build myself something here.
The original plan from the very beginning was that we would build on Coyote Pass
but we ran into some real problems when we moved here.
So, we bought a house for Christine,
and then eventually, we had to buy a house for Robyn.
I know this is bothering Janelle,
but I've been invested in this from the very beginning.
And the problem is, we do discuss it, I get involved in her house,
but she doesn't like me being involved because I disagree with her.
So instead of coming to a meeting of the minds,
she just does whatever she wants.
Look, I know you're like, "We should have just bought."
-But I felt like this was the right thing to do. -No, no, no.
It's not even just buying, it's just renting.
Kody, if I were to ride in town, it would just be out of sight, out of mind again,
y'know, I mean...
So, that was part of the whole reason I wanted to move out here,
was to keep me moving along.
I have gotten myself in a very stupid position as far as an independent woman.
If I were to leave, or want to leave right now,
I would have no estate. I have nothing to leave to my kids.
My hands are completely tied
cause everything I have asset wise has everybody else's name on it too.
[Robyn] We all are owners of property.
Our names are on different pieces of the properties,
so we do-- We actually all do have an asset.
My home does have Kody and I's name on it.
Y'know, through the years, we've had multiple people on the homes,
because in the past, we real have just worked together as a family, y'know.
And so, it really didn't matter, we all just kind of had each other's backs.
And, y'know, we're all in this together.
[Janelle] Honestly, I gave half the proceeds from my house in like, Vegas,
to Robyn to help purchase this house that she's in currently.
We also, at that time, pooled a lot of money from the joint family account
to help get her into that house.
We have a family account and the same amount of money is in it
as when we bought Robyn's house.
And it was okay to deplete at that point, to pay for Robyn's house.
And I'm like, "We did it for Robyn, we did it for Christine,
why can it not be my turn?"
Well, it wasn't a matter of finding the money, for Christine's house,
or finding the money for Robyn's house,
it was a matter of having the money.
Now, we don't have the money.
So, I'll keep moving forward.
Cause I have to think that whatever we're doing
is going to blaze the trail for the other pieces.
[Kody] Yeah.
I'm in this weird place with my wives.
I've got this huge struggle that's going on with Christine,
and what's happened is I've just become agreeabl
That's why I'm sitting here, just going, "Yeah, yeah, yeah."
When I know it's just-- There's a disconnect.
And in order for her to start building on this land,
we have to pay it off.
All right.
I needed a place where I could actually nurture
a relationship with Janelle and Savanah.
And it's too late.
We already have the RV.
Well, I'll look into getting propane.
-[Janelle] All right, baby. See you later. -[Kody] See ya.
It's exhausting our emotional resources.
[Janelle] I'm not asking him to do anything.
I'm not asking anyone else to come out here and build,
nobody else has to make any decisions.
And I'm not asking him for any money,
except for the money that the family has pledged
to pay off this property when we first bought it.
So, that's all I'm asking, is for him to honor that commitment,
for everybody to prioritize that and then after that, I don't care.
I'm just trying to build something for myself here.
Today was the first day of school for the kids.
-Hi, Ariella. Hi, Sol. -Hi.
First day of school. Mommy. First day of school. Mommy.
Good job, high five.
[Kody] Ariella is my 18th child.
And there is this sense of this being the last,
both for me and for Robyn.
[Kody] Let's write your name.
[Christine] I think one of the most important parts about me leaving Kody
was to keep the good memories that he has with the kids present.
You don't want your kids to have just-- Remember all the negative times.
That doesn't serve anybody.
So things are really, really difficult right now with the family.
But, y'know, Kody and I still have little kids.
They're going back to school in person, for the first time.
And, y'know, I want to have them feel special
and like, excited about their day and stuff.
Oh, my goodness.
Fun, fun, school.
Today was the first day of school for the kids.
But, the most important thing is it's Ari's first day of kindergarten.
Solomon was in third grade last year and he was online the whole, entire year.
This is his first day back in person, too, which is really fun.
-Hi! -Hi, Ariella.
-Hi! -[Kody] Hi, Sol.
[Breanna] Happy first day!
-[Kody] How was it? -[Solomon and Ariella] Good.
Did you make friends?
-[Solomon] Yeah. -[Ariella] Yes.
We did get a report from Ariella's teacher
that there was a girl that was there, that was shy and sad.
And that Ari was very helpfu and she tried to hold her hand,
and, uh, help this other person.
Hey, come here.
-Hey, I wanna know how your day was. -Breanna!
[Ariella] My day was good.
[Kody] Ari is very gregariou very brave.
She's a little girl that I'm actually very proud of.
I made a friend with Sad, cause I wouldn't leave her alone.
[Kody] Okay, you're friend with Sad, cause you wouldn't leave her alone?
Yeah.
Were you being too much of a pest?
[Robyn] Oh, we don't use that word. Let's be nice.
You were bugging her?
-Oh, really? I'm so sorry. -[Robyn giggles]
She-- She kept running away from me.
Why was she running away?
He cut her off.
Breaking up, yeah.
[Robyn] Were you nervous when I dropped you off to school today?
-Yeah. -[Robyn] You were?
Did that teacher take you to your class?
-[Ariella] Yeah. Yeah. -And you were okay?
I almost ran back to her,
but I was like, "No, first day of school. Mommy.
First day of school. Mommy. First day of school. Mommy."
Ari, you're shy.
[giggles]
-Why are you offended? -[sighs]
It's true.
Mama was sad when she dropped you off.
Yeah, I was like, [in childish voice] "My baby, my baby."
[in normal voice] I think it was the hardest--
It was the hardest drop off I've ever done.
And I went and got in the car with Kody and I was like,
"Gosh, that-- That's scary. That's hard. I don't like this." And...
He was like, "Yeah, that was weird."
And he was getting a little bit, like, emotional,
cause he's like, "That's my last kindergartener too." And...
And it was-- I don't know, it was just kind of like,
this moment we just sat there in it going,
"Well, y'know, this is-- This is kind of difficult to do."
-[pleasant music playing] -[children chattering]
How do you open it, huh?
-[children giggling and chattering] -We can be quiet.
[Janelle] So, Kody, especial when they were little, was such a good dad.
Like, I can remember a lot of things, like walking in a line,
and probably trying to go brush their teeth or something.
[in sing-song voice] Da-da.
-[Kody] Da-da. -[children] Da-da.
I thought Kody was stellar, he did such an amazing job relating to his kids.
[Meri] When each of Kody's kids were born,
they all just brought him so much joy.
I mean, he loved hanging out with them.
Y'know, he was always a really, really, good dad.
[Kody] Let's write your name.
[Christine] I think one of the most important parts about me leaving Kody
was to keep the good memories that he has with the kids present.
He used to wrestle with the older kids all the time
I just think it's important to remember
all the good memories that the kids have of their dad.
You don't want your kids to have just-- Remember all the negative times.
That doesn't serve anybody.
Uh, what would you call this? Your unicorn?
Lunch-- Well, you ate everything but the apple.
-[Robyn] Almost all of it-- Yeah, that's how much. -Good job, high five.
[Kody] Ariella is my 18th child.
And there is this sense of this being the last, both for me and for Robyn,
of being a very...
Somehow, we just wanna cherish.
I sort of want to every day engage or find out, "What wa your day like?" And...
It's a poignant thought.
Sobering if you will,
to think that this is your last out of so many.
-All right, did you have a great day at school? -[Ariella] Yes, I did.
-Did you have a great day at school? -Yes.
-Breanna, did you have a great day at school? -I had a great day.
-[Kody] Probably cause a boy was there. -[Robyn] Senior!
-[Kody] Let's go. -Oh, my God!
-[Kody] Kids, get inside. -She's gonna graduate this year. [whoops]
[Kody] Come on inside.
And cut.
[man] Wow.
[Kody] Next time, on Sister Wives...
-Mom, do you wanna know something exciting? -[Christine] Yes
-We're gonna live 20 minutes away from each other. -[screams]
I want my mom to have everybody say goodbye to her.
Is any of the family-- Are you guys gonna do anything like, a goodbye?
Are we gonna go dump toilets on their lawn?
Like what are we doing? What's the plan?
I don't think we're doing anything like that.
Yes, she's divorcing my dad, but she's not saying,
"Okay, peace out, I'm done with every single one of you."
I'm leaving in five minutes.
I feel like my life is being unraveled before me.
Hey, guys, thank you for coming. Hey, it means a lot to me that you came.
[Christine crying]
I think this was the worst goodbye
that I've ever witnessed.
[Christine crying]