{"id":42580,"date":"2023-10-02T03:00:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T03:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/02\/sister-wives-recap-janelle-says-she-doesnt-want-to-be-married\/"},"modified":"2023-10-02T03:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T03:00:01","slug":"sister-wives-recap-janelle-says-she-doesnt-want-to-be-married","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/02\/sister-wives-recap-janelle-says-she-doesnt-want-to-be-married\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sister Wives&#8217; Recap: Janelle Says She Doesn&#8217;t Want to Be Married"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/janelle-brown\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Janelle Brown<\/a><span> is ready to move forward in her life post-<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/kody-brown\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kody Brown<\/a><span>. On Sunday&#8217;s episode of <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etonline.com\/tv\/sister-wives\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Sister Wives<\/em><\/a><span>, the mother of six met up with <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/christine-brown\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christine Brown<\/a><span>, Kody&#8217;s ex, to discuss her new outlook on the status of her estranged marriage with Kody.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Janelle tells Christine that she met with the family counselor, Nancy, and has determined that she and Kody are done.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I&#8217;m growing and I need something different. And that&#8217;s hard. I&#8217;m still reconciling that little bit,&#8221; Janelle says. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be married anymore.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Christine seems shocked by this comment from Janelle, explaining, &#8220;This is one of the first times I&#8217;ve heard Janelle talking about what she has with Kody isn&#8217;t enough. I just don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s capable of more.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"shortcode shortcode-image content-in\"><figcaption class=\"content-in\"><span class=\"shortcode-image__credit\">TLC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>Janelle admits that she doesn&#8217;t see a future with Kody, saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m struggling because I still have so much affection for him, but I need something different as far as a marriage goes. It&#8217;s OK to grow. It&#8217;s OK to change. And sometimes your partner comes along and sometimes they don&#8217;t.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>With most of her and Kody&#8217;s children grown and moved out, Janelle doesn&#8217;t see a way for her and her estranged husband to reconcile.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I can&#8217;t think of any reason that I would want him to come back at this point. I just don&#8217;t know because I&#8217;m just waiting on God to tell me if what I&#8217;m doing is OK,&#8221; Janelle admits, noting that her religion frowns upon ending a marriage. &#8220;I haven&#8217;t had any kind of inspiration to that regard yet.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"shortcode shortcode-image content-in\"><figcaption class=\"content-in\"><span class=\"shortcode-image__credit\">TLC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>Kody claims that he calls his ex regularly to try to work things out, but that she doesn&#8217;t seem to want to try.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;She&#8217;s not interested in a relationship with Robyn. She&#8217;s not interested in a relationship with Meri. Certainly not Meri, I guess. And how does that work for me?&#8221; the polygamist asks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Kody says that though he doesn&#8217;t think their relationship is hopeless, he also doesn&#8217;t know what he has to offer her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It&#8217;s not looking good for Kody as Janelle admits that after their explosive holiday fight, she was driving around and &#8220;felt like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Kody&#8217;s response to the separation?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s a mistake, but whatever.&#8221; \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Christine and Janelle also agree that Kody has &#8220;changed.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;He&#8217;s not the same person,&#8221; Christine claims, saying her ex is no longer &#8220;courageous&#8221; and adding, &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t be in love with who he is. I&#8217;m so not attracted to anyone like that.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Even <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/robyn-brown\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robyn Brown<\/a><span> and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/meri-brown\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meri Brown<\/a><span> agree.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;He&#8217;s been very, very, very angry,&#8221; Robyn says of her husband.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know how you do it. Because he&#8217;s not who you married. Not who I married,&#8221; Meri tells her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"shortcode shortcode-image content-in\"><figcaption class=\"content-in\"><span class=\"shortcode-image__credit\">TLC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>But Kody disagrees with this analysis, saying, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think that I&#8217;m the only one that changed here\u2026 We have all changed.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Meri admits to feeling &#8220;sad&#8221; for Kody, but adds that she doesn&#8217;t think her estranged husband is actually mourning the loss of the big family the way Robyn claims.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;If he was, he would work more at it,&#8221; she says, pointing to her own relationship with Kody as an area where he&#8217;s made no effort.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Meri is planning to move her clothing business to Utah, where she&#8217;s running her late mother&#8217;s B&amp;B. She&#8217;s scared to tell Robyn about this as\u00a0 she feels Robyn is the only one who will care (and she&#8217;s not wrong).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;As long as this is just what you&#8217;ve gotta do and there&#8217;s no permanency to it,&#8221; Robyn tells her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But though Meri is assuring Robyn that she will still live in Flagstaff, she also claims that Robyn &#8220;hasn&#8217;t reached out a lot&#8221; through the pandemic, and says that Kody&#8217;s wife will need to let her know if she wants her around.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Meri says she&#8217;s still holding out hope that she and Kody can make their relationship work, saying, &#8220;I just feel like he is going to sometime realize that this is something that he committed to as well and that we can work on moving forward. I want him to work on this relationship with me. I don&#8217;t care anymore, but I do care. I know what I really want.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"shortcode shortcode-image content-in\"><figcaption class=\"content-in\"><span class=\"shortcode-image__credit\">TLC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>But Kody doesn&#8217;t seem quite so optimistic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Meri and I have gone through a process here over the past seven years and we&#8217;ve gotten back to the place where I feel like we are getting along\u2026 but I don&#8217;t want to reconcile the relationship because I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a fit for me,&#8221; Kody says.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Robyn claims she&#8217;s &#8220;torn&#8221; with Meri, saying she wants her to be happy while also wanting her to help them keep the family together.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I love Kody, but I never wanted to live monogamy and it feels like more and more that&#8217;s where it&#8217;s heading,&#8221; Robyn says. &#8220;And I&#8217;m angry. I&#8217;m really angry\u2026 I can start to feel a little tricked and, like, people are making decisions for my life that I didn&#8217;t choose.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Fans of <\/span><em><span>Sister Wives<\/span><\/em><span> know that things don&#8217;t ultimately work out between Meri and Kody. In January, they confirmed that they have &#8220;permanently terminated&#8221; their marriage. Robyn is Kody&#8217;s only remaining wife.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>Sister Wives<\/span><\/em><span> airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on TLC. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>RELATED CONTENT:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/sister-wives-recap-janelle-says-she-doesnt-want-to-be-married-to-kody-anymore-211781\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janelle Brown is ready to move forward in her life post-Kody Brown. On Sunday&#8217;s episode of Sister Wives, the mother of six met up with Christine Brown, Kody&#8217;s ex, to discuss her new outlook on the status of her estranged marriage with Kody.\u00a0 Janelle tells Christine that she met with the family counselor, Nancy, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1962,174,748,749,2557,20,2556,747,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-42580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"tag-christine-brown","12":"tag-meri-brown","14":"tag-robyn-brown","15":"tag-sister-wives","16":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}