[narrator] Previously on Sister Wives.
[Christine] Kody, Meri, Janelle and Robyn are all coming over
because I need to tell them that my house is now under contract.
Congratulations, you're leaving the family.
Like, I don't know what I'm supposed to say to this.
[Kody] You never tried to have a really good relationship with these other people.
Man, just the knife in the kidneys over all these years!
It doesn't matter. It's over.
I mean, again, our relationship doesn't change
just because my mom's decided to leave dad. It doesn't change it.
You're still mom.
I am open and interested in a relationship with any of the kids
or wives that want one.
It's what I've always wanted.
It was really important to me for everybody
to come say goodbye to my mom.
It's raining. I'm leaving in five minutes.
I'm in this sort of weird place where
I don't want to see Christine ever again.
I... I don't want to think about her.
I don't want to drive past this house ever again and mourn this.
I don't want to deal with this at all.
You guys, thank you for coming.
Hey, it means a lot to me that you came.
[sobbing]
So it's very apparent how awkward we all are.
But Janelle and her kids are on one side, and Robyn and Kody are on the other,
and none of us want to be here.
[Christine] So I am moving today. Oh, my gosh.
It's here. It's here. It's here.
I am moving to Utah. I have a home, it's a rental I haven't seen it.
It's a sight unseen because Mykelti did a walk-through
and she says I'll love it.
It's great. And it's new.
About a week ago, I got an offer on my house, but it fell through today,
as we're loading up the truck. So the house is back on the market
and people are coming today to look at it.
We're going to load up everything.
And then if we have time left, we will clean.
So initially, when I had the offer on my house,
I had three weeks before the closing date.
Okay, let's go do a once-over.
So now I've got to clean everything out so the house can be shown,
but I'm not going to be able to have
enough room to take all of my stuff.
I'm gonna have to still come back.
So we're just gonna put everything in the garage and leave it there
and I'll be back in a couple of weeks, in a week or so or whatever
to come and get the rest of my stuff.
-What a view, huh? -[Mykelti] It is a beautiful view.
Oh, gosh. It is a great day, too.
Most of the local family gathered together to say
goodbye to Christine last night.
It was extremely awkward.
-Hi, Christine. Good luck. -Bye, thank you.
-Bye. -Bye. Thank you.
-Thank you. -Okay. Safe travels. We'll see you.
That was awkward and horrible.
And...
I have no idea what to do with it.
Christine doesn't want a relationship with me or my kids.
I guess she disappears to a certain extent out of my life.
If I happen to run into her when Truely is over,
just sort of stay out of her way.
[Christine] This one looks perfect.
No one ever wants to leave a marriage.
And especially after, what, 27 years?
It's a long time to be in a marriage and to be in a relationship with people.
And I'm leaving broken hearts behind. And that's what's hard.
Truely's stressed today. She's very nervous.
Moving's hard and starting over is really hard.
I know I'm moving her to better.
I'm fully confident, moving her to a better life. But she doesn't know that yet.
[Robyn] It's really hard to be optimistic when a bomb just went off
and blew up pretty much all of your hopes.
The collateral damage will last for generations.
[Meri] As the news about Christine leaving
has been more public and has spread,
you know, more and more people know about it,
it shocks me how mean people are.
I think that's it. I think that's all we have left.
These people, like, come at me and they're just like,
"Why can't you be strong like Christine?"
"Why don't you leave Kody? He's such a..." Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Like, the whole list of things that they say about Kody.
It frustrates me because, you know what?
Christine has her own value regardless of Kody.
I have my own value regardless of Kody.
[Janelle] I have coffee.
-I have coffee. -Janelle!
-[Janelle] I have coffee. -Nice.
I'll always be grateful to Janelle for how amazing she's been during all of this.
She's been supportive of me leaving and me moving
and leaving the family and changing the whole dynamic of the family.
Thank you for everybody for coming this long distance.
And thank you for helping me so much.
Thank you for being one of my best friends, Janelle. Thank you.
And this to... to new beginnings, right?
-New beginnings. -To new beginnings.
New beginnings.
I see now without the sister wife piece.
Like, where we're just two people with this shared life experience.
We're gonna be such great friends. I mean, we are.
We're gonna be, and that's gonna continue.
-Thank you. See you later. -See you later.
-Okay. It's not... It's not goodbye. -No.
-I'll see you in a week. -See you soon.
-See you later. -Just see you later.
So not only is she supporting me,
but she's helping me look forward to my next adventure.
Yeah. I couldn't ask for a better friend, ever.
Um, Christine is leaving.
[sighs]
I'm good until I think about it. So...
It's not the end. It's just the end of a chapter.
So, a big, big chapter. The end of the book, maybe.
All of a sudden my whole world looks different. So...
Yeah. Like, we just... I don't think any of us know what goes on now.
We're just gonna have to make it up.
There's no pattern. There's no rules. There's no guidelines.
It's whatever we want it to be, now.
-[producer speaking] -[chuckles]
It's hard to leave. Gosh, it's really hard to leave.
Ending a chapter is really hard no matter what, you know?
All right, lovelies. Let's go. That's it.
Freedom! I mean, next adventure!
-You are the best therapy. -We're gonna be neighbors.
She's moving today, she's leaving. And I'm...
There's a sense that I feel like I'm just, in a way, coping.
And I really want to tell her I loved you.
I loved you. Why did you betray me?
I worked for this.
And that's almost just pathetic because she's leaving.
She's done. And I've got to accept that.
But I don't want to because it's breaking my heart.
[Christine] Everything that I was feeling before about being nervous,
it's gone all of a sudden.
This is what I was waiting for. This is what I was hoping for.
This is a test to show how...
[both giggling]
-[doctor] Okay. Again. -You're doing good.
Honey, I'm home.
-Hey. -[Kody] Hi.
[Christine] We've had a lot of good memories at this house,
a lot of great times and great parties and great gatherings.
But I'm so excited to just move on.
Today I get to be at home.
It's late. It is super late.
We're getting in kind of late, but Aspyn's gonna meet us there.
-[Christine] Aspyn. -I missed you.
[Christine] Hi, baby. Aw.
I've been moving towards family and moving, and she's here.
And gosh, it just feels so overwhelmingly amazing.
I just made the right decision.
-You ready to go see our new house? -Yeah.
Okay. That sounds good to me, too.
I don't want to move anything in yet.
I want a tour. I want a tour of my house.
-Mom. -This is perfect. Truely has two sinks.
Whoa! A huge mirror.
There's a separate door to the toilet. It's pretty awesome.
And the laundry room. Did you see the laundry room?
Oh, oh, oh.
You could have a dance party in that laundry room. It's huge.
Oh, this is the other bedroom. Okay.
It's cute. It's really pretty and it's new and it's clean.
So is this your room? Is this Truely's room?
[Truely chanting] Truely's room. Truely's room.
[Christine] Truely has picke a bedroom and she likes it.
It's helping Truely even be more okay.
This has been stressful.
There's been a lot going on. Kind of excited for the new adventure.
It will all be a lot of new, though. That's the thing.
I mean, she spent like more than half of her life with the family.
So how the relationship's gonna be different
between the kids and the other moms and everything?
-Mm-hmm. -Mm-hmm.
Yeah, like, nervous about that. Like, how the family changes.
Because it's definitely changed. It's totally different now.
I'm in the master's. This will be mine.
En suite, you know, it's called the en suite.
This is now my room, and it's just mine.
I get to decorate it how I want.
I'm gonna buy new furniture for it exactly how I want.
Oh, please, mama. That's happening tonight.
And it's just mine.
This is a great space. I'm only gonna have a queen size bed anyway.
It just represents everything, so I'm just
excited to have it be my space alone for a while.
-Her offer didn't go through on the house. -Yeah.
Why don't we buy it?
We buy the house, we build on Coyote Pass,
you move into that house, we rent this house.
-I want my own house. -I don't want to live in an RV.
Dude, you have a house. You go home and you live in the house with Robyn.
And I don't have a house still.
I'm still hand-carrying water from the water source to my trailer.
Christine's house fell out of contract,
so she said it was okay for me to come over here.
I come over here and I fill up my water from her back tap,
and then I take it and put it in my RV.
-Hey. -Oh, hi, honey.
I drove by it and driving by, and I saw your...
-[Janelle] Doing water. -Well, I saw you walk in just as I was pulling by.
Hi. How's it going, sweetheart?
[Savanah] To be completely honest,
I do not like having to do so many tours,
um, things that would be simpler in an apartment.
I don't think we understood what we were getting into
quite as well as we thought we did.
But it's... it's... it's just one of those things that you have to do.
So I was here yesterday and I saw Christine off and she said--
I just thought it'd be easier just to come over here.
Well, her... her offer didn't go through on the house.
Yeah. She... she said that.
Why don't we buy it?
We buy the house, we build on Coyote Pass,
you move into that house, we rent this house.
That's the plan with Robyn's house.
I just-- my heart-- I want a house.
I'm ready to be settled in my own house.
Yeah, but we're a year from that.
Even if we start building right away.
Yeah, I just... Kody, I don't think I can do both.
I... I can't afford both house mortgages.
I can't buy this house and in any shape or form, finance another house.
No matter, even if it's small. Like, I just can't.
I don't know why we couldn't... Okay. All we got to do is get...
I talk... So, I called Kelly today because you and I have been all this...
We just, like, we... Our friends say this.
-Yeah yeah, yeah. -You know what I mean?
And he said it would be two years of renting this to somebody else before...
Oh it's not a year.
So Kelly is a mortgage professional here in town
that we've used for a lot of our financing.
And he said you would have to rent it for two years
before somebody would not count that mortgage towards your debt to income
when you're trying to finance something else.
And I don't want this house. I want to be out on the property.
That's the whole reason I've been doing everything I've been doing.
I want to be out there.
I still think you're not being open-minded.
-Okay, Kody, I talked to Kelly. -I know.
-He says two years. So what? -[Janelle] I'm not gonna...
It takes a whole year to build.
No. I'm not gonna say-- Well, no, Kody, the problem is I wouldn't be able to build.
I can't even get a construction loan if I buy this house.
You know, if Janelle wouldn't have bought the RV,
she could have been able to afford the mortgage on Christine's house.
If we are able to pull out, pay off the land this year,
then why wouldn't we be able to actually just fund your construction next year?
No. God.
It's like... No, Kody, it's like everybody's lost
sight of the reason that we moved here was to build out there.
I know, but this is... I'm not saying we're not building out there.
I'm saying we're simply just buying an asset.
I just thought... No, this really...
Just something that becomes...
He told me it would be two years before I could apply, two years of rent.
So where am I going to live for those two years... that we're renting this?
I'm just being creative and a little bit argumentative here with Janelle,
but the whole point is, is I want to get her into a home
and Christine's house is here, available and easy.
I can be built in a year.
I just... I see that we just lack creativity here.
I understand what what Kelly is saying but--
No, Kody, I want to go forward with this build.
But I don't know why we would not go forward...
Because the money I'd have to put as a down payment
on this would basically almost pay off the land.
-No, I'm, I'm... We can do both. -I just... I don't think so.
I'm the one who gets the taxes to the accountant
I see how the money was dispersed from the family account
and there was enough money outside of the debts
and our daily expenses that was spent on other things.
And I'm just saying, if we were prioritizing
like we did when we bought other houses, we could pay off the land.
You know, we've always worked together
to take care of the whole family.
We worked together to buy Christine her house.
We worked together to take care of the kids.
And I know right now we're in a position
where we can't pay off that property yet.
And I know that that's got to be stressful
and frustrating for Janelle.
It's frustrating to me as well
because all I wanted to do is get our butts out there on that property.
It's interesting because Janelle has never discussed
paying off Coyote Pass or the work on the Coyote Pass with Meri or with Robyn.
I am more than willing to put money in that direction.
But we have to have it to do it.
Kody, I just don't think so. I think it will slow me down.
And once again, I'll be stuck in this...
a house that is not the one I want.
If you're gonna stay in an area, buying is always fiscally responsible
if the market doesn't just crater.
The second reason I don't want to rent is if we bought Christine's house
and then she builds on Coyote Pass,
she moves to Coyote Pass, she's got a rental property, that becomes an asset.
Never did Kody say, "Hey, honey, let's do this. It's a house for you."
All Kody ever talked about was how much he was sad
that he was losing this house that Christine had.
He loved it. He didn't want to lose it.
So it sort of felt like he was using me and my buying power
to save this house that he loves.
Like I would be in this home that isn't really one of my favorite homes
and it would be where I would be forever stuck.
You're not thinking like an entrepreneur. You're seeing...
Okay, I get all that, Kody, but I don't have a house.
I want my own house.
-I want my own house. -[Kody] You are moving into a rental because...
For six months, because I don't want to stay out there in the winters.
-And I don't want to live in an RV. -That's fine.
We don't have to. We can stay in town and rent.
Dude, you have a house, you go home
and you live in the house with Robyn.
I have no house.
We've been in Flagstaff for four freaking years,
and I don't have a house still.
Financially, at least up until fairly recently,
our family's always kind of, like, worked together
and just put whatever funds that we had where they needed to go.
When I sold my house in Vega I gave my money that I made from that house to Robyn
so that she could buy her house here in Flagstaff
You know, like, that's just what we've done. We've always worked together.
Um, and like, I have no problem with the fact that I'm renting still.
I understand that you think you can't do both,
but there's a way if there's a will.
I've been pushing this house of Christine's onto Janelle for a long time
and Janelle is like, "Stop it."
She doesn't want to buy Christine's house.
She wants to build her own house.
If she can't work with me to solve the problems,
then she gets to solve the problems on her own.
And the way she's going about it with buying the RV,
with moving out there, with this whole charade...
it's not working.
Oh, it really is raining.
He's not listening at all to the reasons
that I can't do this or don't want to do this.
It's almost like he just feels like if he keeps telling me,
he's gonna steamroll me and I'm gonna lay down
and be like, "Okay, we'll do it."
I'm not trying to force her into anything.
I'm trying to have a conversation.
She's gonna do whatever she wants.
She always has.
I'm optimistic that everything will be fine,
but I don't know.
Things are really broken.
I don't think that there's a lot of trust
between all three of us at all.
And I think that my relationship with them
is just gonna stay like this.
I have my house on the market in Flagstaff.
There was a buyer, but they fell through.
And now there's a new buyer.
But I still have a lot of stuff there
that I have to move out.
So we're back and just for fun,
Truely's gonna spend the nig in Janelle's RV
just so she can have a little bit of fun
and spend some time with Janelle and Savanah.
[Truely] Thank you so much for letting me stay here.
-Of course. -[Janelle] Oh, I'm so excited you're here, True.
[Christine] I would love to just stay home in Utah and settle.
I was so excited about moving and progressing
and moving forward with life,
but then I have to go back to Flagstaff.
So I'm like, "Ugh."
We're just gonna keep moving forward.
-What do you think? -It's great. Thank you.
-Yeah? -It's kind of different, huh?
-Kind of different. -Yeah.
I'm so glad to have Truely over.
I think Truely is such a cool kid.
You can have these adult lev conversations with her and you forget she's 11.
It's just fun to have her over.
Yes. This is my first sleepover in the RV.
We might do some stargazing.
-[Truely gasps] -The stars look pretty great here.
Um, and my mom is a huge astronomy nerd.
I'm a skywatcher.
I'm enthralled with it, I'm passionate about it.
If I discovered a star, I would just call it my babi
because it's my star, I can call whatever I wanted.
I have lots of babies in my world.
Some of them have got grown up, some of them are little.
But I would just call it my babies.
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[Janelle] So one thing that's been kind of fun about living out in the RV
is we cook out often.
We'll do hot dogs or hamburgers
or like those little foil packet dinners or something.
It's fun. It's like, it's like camping every night.
-[Truely] Uh... -[Savanah] Chocolate...
-[indistinct chatter] -The cinnamon...
Oh, blow it out. Blow it out.
True, blow.
All right, can you eat them like that?
-Yep. I love it burnt. -Oh, okay.
I put it directly in the flame on purpose.
So when I eat marshmallows, when I eat s'mores,
I purposefully burn the marshmallow.
It tastes burnt on the outside,
but it's overly creamy on the inside.
It tastes actually really good.
Do you want chocolate graham crackers
or the kind that are like the regular,
but they have cinnamon on them?
Um, I'll have the regular.
-Okay. -I'm trying to...
show Truely that it's cool to live out here.
I even went and got some really fun sugary breakfast cereal,
which I never keep around
because I wanted it to make it like this,
this amusement park experience where she's like,
"Wow, we did s'mores and I love..."
I wanted her to be like, "That was really fun,"
you know, so I was like bending over backwards to make it fun for her.
[Truely] We roasted marshmallows, we stargazed a little.
We just had fun, and like, it was like,
"Okay, this is like the last time
that I'll see you in a couple of months."
So, like...
[crickets chirping]
[Christine] So this is my last morning in Flagstaff.
It is weird. It's surreal to be here.
I moved from this house, like, 20 days ago,
so we're just visiting.
It doesn't feel like our house anymore.
Not at all.
The house sold and, um, the first buyers backed out,
'cause there were some electrical problems that I didn't know about.
Anyway, we're getting the electrical problems fixed.
We have another offer.
It looks really solid now,
and they want to close early as well.
They came in asking at a great price.
Everything was great.
So I need to finish clearing everything out.
It's exciting.
Robyn drove by yesterday
and the kids rolled down the windows
and, you know, waved and yelled and stuff.
It was really cute.
And I'm optimistic that everything will be fine,
but I don't know.
Things are really broken, more broken than ever right now.
And Janelle and I are fine.
That's the relationship that I really want to keep
really, really solid and really, really strong.
Every time I've come into town, I've seen her.
We'll do coffee together in the morning
and hang out for a little bi
And it's just easier.
It's taking off the label of sister wife,
and we're just friends, but we're closer than friends
because we've raised kids together.
I don't know if Janelle and I can be sister wives
if we're not married to the same guy, you know?
I don't know.
Honestly, of all my sisters... my "sister wives",
like the real sister wives,
the ones who are all married to Kody,
Christine was always kind of the heart
of that relationship for me.
I've struggled with Meri and we've worked for a lot of years
to try to figure ourselves out.
And Robyn, there's a lot of problems,
but Christine truly is, in my head,
the definition of a sister wife.
You share a big portion of your life with,
you have history with,
you have all these things, you're a support network for each other.
So, yeah, I think we're still sister wives.
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.
-Okay. -For right now.
I haven't spoken with Robyn or Meri
since we talked all together
And I think that my relationship with them
is just gonna stay like this,
where when we see each other,
we'll be amiable and we'll be kind,
but we won't seek each other out.
I mean, things could change years later.
I don't think that there's a lot of trust
between all three of us at all.
The house is just so empty
and it's weird,
surreal, hard, good,
fun, exciting.
Um, so exciting to just...
[sighs] ...leave.
I don't like to be here.
I would prefer to be anywhere else
because anywhere else, I'm strong and independent and fun and fearless
and can rise to any occasio and can do anything I want.
You put me back here and I'm a wife in a loveless marriage...
that was going nowhere, and I don't like to be that.
So it's like, um, a farewell to that, too.
So yeah, I've got to keep moving forward.
So we need to meet with everybody and figure out
if everybody is good with the dividing still or...
[Kody] There's an element that I'm struggling with here.
I've been left feeling pretty disrespected.
Men don't love people back who don't respect them.
I'm not gonna break my back to work for you
when you don't respect me.
I'm just not.
I've been working all morning just cleaning up yard work
over at Robyn's house and stopping over at Janelle's RV.
She's got something she wants to show me.
You know, Janelle and I have been living
in this RV together for a while.
It's been less than a picnic,
so it's like, oh, we're just going
to ignore the problems in the relationship.
Carpet... [mimics sweeping]
[Janelle] What's the log?
[Kody] Uh, I'm, uh...
I'm moving them out of Robyn's backyard.
[Janelle] Wow. That's a hook up.
[Kody] We've got a pile of logs that we've been salvaging.
We'll peel it, put it up to dry,
and hopefully it'll end up being a good log.
-What are you doing? -Oh, I got the plans. You want to see 'em?
So, I... I actually... She sent him to me
and I had them printed.
All right. That's... that's awesome. Yeah.
We've got a drawing here.
A drafted drawing of the house.
Basically, this is what we would take
to a builder to have them bid it.
And we'd also be able to get a permit off of it, I think.
I'm actually pretty excited.
So there's more than one copy here
because we'll have to have multiple builders look at it.
-So that's what we-- -[Kody] That's just her rendering, right?
[Janelle] Yeah, that's the... but the basic look, right?
With the pointed roof, the way you wanted it or something with the decks.
-Yeah, that's called a gable end. Yeah. -Okay.
This house that I'm planning on building is only gonna be 1200 square feet.
So it's small.
So we had thought to make the roof pointed like it'll feel more open.
So it's gonna have that one really big garage.
It won't be big enough for this,
but this is, that has the pop out.
So these are a little shorter.
So that's gonna be a pretty nice sized garage.
So the house I'm building is technically more like a casita,
which means a small house.
So I have a three bay garag and then the house is gonna built up on top of it.
It's an easy way to save building costs if you put it on top of your garage.
So the master's 15... almost by 15X15.
So that would be big enough for our bed set.
And then Savanah's room is a little smaller, but that's big enough for her.
[Kody] Yeah.
The house I'm gonna build is gonna be a two bedroom.
The only person who's still living at home with me is Savanah.
And so I wanted to save the bulk of the space for the big great room,
because that's where you spend most of your time anyway.
So this has the existing lot lines.
So I can build this on the existing
because I fit in with it, with all the right setbacks
[Kody] We're not... we won't build until we've done this subdivision.
So we... Our next move is to try and do the subdivision.
This is typical Kody.
Like, things aren't going awesome, like it's been a hard summer
and now all of a sudden this is all my fault, it's all my problem,
and I'm somehow inconveniencing him.
It's astounding. It's astounding.
We want to do the subdivision.
The main reason is because we want to get a fifth lot out of this location.
So in order for us to divid the properties and get that fifth lot,
we'd have to pay it off.
Then we're able to start building.
Until then, we can't start building.
Well, then... but things have changed. Things have changed.
What are we going to do?
We just have to discuss that with the rest of the,
you know, like with Meri and Robyn.
Yeah, because there's just no longer five of us.
[Kody] Janelle might be wondering if we're still gonna
have five lots because Christine's left.
And yes, we would, because that's going to increase our value of the property by 20%.
So we do need to get together and talk about like what the
land's gonna look like now, I guess.
Yeah, we'll just gather everybody up to do that. But it's still...
I want to divide it the same way.
-Same way we planned, divide it the same way. -Well, let's just talk...
You know, Kody is stuck on this five lots.
He, even with Christine gone, there's four lots. We could make this work.
I think he thinks he's some sort of guy who's gonna
build all these houses, rent them and that's great.
That's great if he wants to, just, just give me my piece.
I just want my piece. I want my estate.
I want to be able to build on my... build a house.
This has gotten kind of ridiculous because we don't have the money now.
And I think it's an illusion that she's convincing herself
of that somehow if she works her will,
that we'll be successful at this.
And it's just, there's-- it's just not there.
-Are you going to show these to Meri and Robyn? -Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, if they're interesting, if they're interested.
-They probably will be. -That's cool.
I live in a bureaucracy.
Like, we do everything by committee decision.
It's the most frustrating part of my life.
I honestly think it's just part of a plural family tha chooses to work together.
There are many plural families who, like, the wives
all maintain their own separate households.
They're all very independent.
The husband disperses his resources among his households.
We chose a long time ago to work together.
And even though that's changed a little bit in the last six or seven years,
everybody's really starting to think more
about their estate and all that stuff.
So we're separating.
There's still very intertwined pieces of our lives
that we have to work together on.
[Kody] In the very beginning when our family came togethe
we built a family that said, these are our children.
And as those older children started to grow up and leave
it stopped being our children.
It started being my children and your children.
So I've got Robyn with, you know, no empty nest. Nobody's left home.
And Janelle, almost everybody has left home.
Christine, almost everybody's left home.
We're in a very different place.
It's not necessarily sinister, but the family's not working together anymore
and hasn't for a very long time.
You know, it's like it doesn really hurt for Janelle to g
and spend the holidays with her kids.
But what does that do for me? I've got little kids at home.
It's an evolution in the family that has left me
feeling alone in many ways and not supported by my wives.
-Yeah. -Is anyone else thinking about coming soon?
-Building soon? -Um...
I don't really talk with Meri about it.
Any time I bring it out, she just seems really wishy-washy about it.
I don't know what she's thinking, what her intentions are,
but she would be the most likely to start building nex
And I want, I want that.
I want her to feel like she can do that, you know,
so she'll be partnering with us on, you know,
what we want to accomplish out here,
especially getting it paid off.
-But she's got to decide where she's gonna build there. -[Janelle] Yeah.
So that's a conversation, that's a really, that's the next step.
There can... We can't assume.
-So we just have to-- -Can't make any assumptions so...
So we just have to talk to them about where,
what we're doing with the property now that there's not Christine.
Right.
So since we started having all these conversations about the property,
and I get that I was kind of undecided, like,
for a while, like, "Do I want to be in the trees?
Do I not want to be in the trees?" You know?
Like, this was a big conversation.
But since we decided, like, where the property lines
were all gonna be and, like, we knew who was gonna be
on each piece of property,
I've been like, "Great, this is it."
So I just rented a house.
I didn't want to tie up the funds for when I could
eventually build out on the property.
So yeah, I've got to keep moving forward.
So we need to meet with everybody and figure out
if everybody is good with the dividing still or...
[Kody] There's an element th I'm struggling with here,
and we've just gone through this entire COVID thing
where I've been left feeling pretty disrespected.
I'm not gonna break my back to work for you when you don't respect me.
I'm just not.
Janelle needs somebody who'll break their back
to get this project done and that's not me right now.
Men don't feel love from women who don't respect them.
I feel like Janelle struggles to respect me or show me respect.
It might be an unfair statement. I don't know.
Maybe it's just the way that we argue.
If you don't respect me, don't bother with the love.
It just doesn't work in my world.
Don't think you should put the snowblower in first.
-Let me-- -[Christine] Okay.
He doesn't need to be here micromanaging how I fill up
this trailer with the last of my crap.
We never had a snowblower in Utah. And there was...
I know. But I have one now, and I love it.
She's proving that she's the independent woman now
by telling me how the best way to pack this is.
It bothered me to the core.
So I got a trailer to put my last minute things in it.
Hey.
So Kody's gonna come help load the snowblower because it's just too heavy.
I can't make it work, but that's it,
I can load the rest of it just fine.
-So are you moving all of that stuff... -Hopefully. That'll be great.
[Kody] ...on this trip?
Order of importance, the snowblower because
I want the weight in the front of the thing.
You know, I guess I can help her load the whole trailer.
I don't know what else she's doing.
Here's the thing, Christine. This... this weight,
the weight of these items should go in the front
because that's all your organization.
When you're pulling a trailer, you want the weight in the front.
If your weight is in the back, then it starts lifting
in a way that will start making the trailer rock on the road.
The snowblower, though it's heavy, isn't condensed
It's... You're not gonna have the same density
as you will by putting all the boxes in front.
So I think she should put the boxes in the front.
If this is going in the last with just soft stuff around it,
but if it's going in first, we don't pack around it.
-Okay. -If these boxes--
So you don't mind helping me with everything then, loading up everything?
I don't think you should put the snowblower in first.
-Let me... -[Christine] Okay.
Oh, my gosh. All I really need his help for is the snowblower.
That's it.
I want it in front because then I'm done and he can go.
That's why I keep on saying, "You're gonna help me load all of it then?"
Trying to get him to be like "Oh, I don't want to stay and help you load all of it
Let's put the snowblower in first" and then I'll go, "That's a great idea."
-I mean, go ahead-- -Will you actually...
We never had a snowblower in Utah.
I know, but I have one now and I love it.
He doesn't need to be here micromanaging
how I fill up this trailer with the last of my crap.
This is the deal. I can put the boxes in my car. I cannot put those in my car.
More than anything, those are going with me this trip.
They are. What?
-I wouldn't-- -I know you wouldn't.
Kody, I know. Thank you.
I'm going to be in charge of this.
I need those with me now because I can take all the boxes.
I can take all the miscellaneous stuff.
-[Kody] Okay. -I can take...
No, I'm not saying right now, but I'm saying this trip.
All right.
Yeah. She doesn't want to listen to actually good advice,
so I'm just gonna cram it all in here.
[grunting]
Let's just get this done.
She's... she's proving that she's the independent woman now by
telling me how the best way to pack this is.
It bothered me to the core.
Okay, I would start packing boxes around these.
I think it's super important to be independent as a plural wife.
I did. And the guy is not around. The husband is not around.
He has so many different places to be.
I... And frankly, that's one of my favorite qualities about myself
that I can do things on my own.
I think it's so empowering just to be able to get stuff done.
I need all those bags.
Let's get anything soft so I can build up around these now.
We've had arguments like this forever, but I was in charge.
She's actually reversed the roles and she says,
"I don't care what you're saying, we're gonna do it this way.
And I'm like...
I don't have to help you.
Just let me get by you. Thank you.
I'm struggling so much with this divorce, it's probably
poisoning my relationship with Janelle a little bit
and definitely poisoning my relationship with Robyn a little bit.
And I think that's partly because I haven't figured out
what I am when we're not this family.
Like, this has been my purpose for so long.
This is what I've done for so long.
I'm... I'm out of my frame and I'm out of my purpose.
I'm spiritually off course. I know that.
I'm a mess and I don't know
what it's gonna take to put me back on course.
All right. Thank you for your help.
-Bye, dad. -[Kody] See you. Love you.
-[Christine] Thank you. -Hey, a hug. Come on.
Just because I'm sweaty, I'm the one that did all the work.
Come on.
Babe, you did not do it all, you just did a lot.
Oh, my gosh. I think we've all learned a lesson today.
I can stand up for myself and be strong and make a stand.
And I can also not ask him for help ever again.
Both have been great decisions made today.
[Kody] All right, ladies. Have a good trip.
[Christine] Thank you. Thanks for your help.
Appreciate it.
[Kody] This is the end of an era for our family.
And she's gone. She's done.
And I've got all these mixed feelings
because Truely is going and that's a real disappointment.
And I'm at this place where I can't tell
if I'm just relieved that Christine's going
or if I'm disappointed with it.
She's called me a lot of things since this has happened,
and I think she called me a coward once
and I kind of went, "Yeah, I've been a little cowardly."
Maybe I should have actually told her that I didn't like her.
But what I didn't do was I didn't quit.
Bye. Love you. Bye-bye.
Once this anger settles, I hope I feel differently.
But I hope it's not heartbreak.
I just don't want to experience heartbreak here.
[narrator] Next time on Sister Wives..
You and I have been acting like we weren't a married couple
for most of our marriage, Janelle.
Okay, I'm spitting mad now.
Maybe this is not a good fit. Maybe this doesn't work.
It feels like we're unraveling.
I'm thinking, what the hell am I doing here?
I have somebody in my life who is fundamentally loyal to me.
I'm not gonna become Robyn.
[Robyn] We were following all the protocols and still somehow COVID got us.
I'm just... just waiting to see the doctor.
[Kody] Robyn's not improving She's not improving.
I think that I was sitting there watching Robyn,
wondering if she was going to live.