One of Robin’s children breaks down in tears as she describes her strained relationship with her siblings, who accuse their mother of “gaslighting” her and playing the victim amid a bitter family feud.
Kody Brown’s The children and their estranged relationships with many of them took center stage in Sunday’s new episode. sister wife.
The reality TV star is the father of 18 children with four women, Robyn, Meri, Janelle and Christine Brown, but disagreements over the coronavirus have caused a major rift. Since then, he has become estranged from some of his children. To add to that burden, you’ll see his text messages on his chain about how to celebrate the holidays. they tore toosomething some kids shed more light on this week.
The hour begins with Janelle’s son Garrison inviting his mother, siblings Gabriel and Savannah, Kody’s ex Christine and their daughter Gwendolyn to his home for dinner, with Gabe and Gwendolyn planning to move into the house. was.
As Christine prepares the meal, she asks Savannah if she has seen Robin’s children. Especially since she was close to her age and she went to the same school as Brianna. Christine was shocked because although she and Beena saw each other from time to time, she “kind of ignored each other” and she never spoke to him. Unlike her siblings, Ms. Savannah met her father during the holidays, but Christine still feels that Kodi is not around because she has become accustomed to him being “absent.” She said it didn’t really bother her.
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“Me and Savannah had a decent relationship with each other. We weren’t super great and close because people had different opinions about the rules during the pandemic. We didn’t know what to do with each other. “I kept my distance,” Briana said, along with her younger sister Aurora, who is also Robin’s daughter.
“I’m a little shocked and confused and she doesn’t care. It just breaks my heart a little bit because I grew up with her. I grew up with them all. ” she continued, before sobbing and asking producers to cut the camera.
When Garrison, Gabe, Savannah, Gwendolyn, Janelle, and Christine all sat down for dinner, the boys revealed they hadn’t spoken to their father since the coronavirus hit. “I remember him saying all he cared about was his minor children and things like that,” said Gabriel, who has a new house and a car since they last spoke. Garrison pointed out that he was admitted to college.
Christine then asked everyone to fill in about the Christmas text message chain debacle, and her daughter Gwendolyn explained that all the children wanted to play Secret Santa, but Robin derailed their plans. . “Robin just talks about himself and brings up past trauma. But where does that trauma come from? Because dad likes them,” she said, and the boy We all agreed in unison.
“They were complaining about the trauma and how we didn’t respect her as a mother and all these other weird things. I always thought of them as brothers and still do. I think so, I think of her as my mother,” Gwendolyn continued in front of Robin and Robin. Her daughters shared their POV footage in separate confessionals.
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“My kids and I both wanted to be part of this family and wanted to be accepted and loved by everyone. When we were merging our families years ago, there were a lot of problems. ” Robin said. “I didn’t feel like there was any support from other parents… That started to disappear after about 10 years… When coronavirus hit, my kids and I were excluded again and all of a sudden… I’m no longer part of their group.”
“Before we joined the text chain, we knew that some of our brothers had very strong negative feelings towards us,” Aurora claimed. “We also found out that they were planning on spending Christmas without us without telling us.”
Briana added: “It was very frustrating for me and I felt very hurt and confused.”
Overall, Robin felt that she was given an “attitude” by the other children, which made her feel “defeated” and as if she had been “voted off the Brown family’s island.” Ta.
After a series of text messages exploded, Robin stopped talking to the other children and instead told Christine’s daughter Mykelti (with whom she remains close) that her children would participate in the gift exchange. He is said to have told her to tell him that he would not do so. “We said no because Robin was trying to ostracize her and play her victim. Here’s how we can do this and adapt to your new Christmas rules.” “I’m thinking about it,” Garrison explained.
Garrison added, “She was gaslighting everyone into giving her special treatment,” adding that Gwendolyn said, “For the past eight years, she has made herself the victim because she was the last wife.” “I was doing it,” he said.
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Garrison said that after Christine and Janelle’s marriage “disintegrated,” they began to give up trying to work with Robyn and her father, saying of Robyn that he “didn’t care about her anymore.” That’s what it means. He also believed that Robyn used the coronavirus to imprison Kody in her home and then “made her father the victim and blamed him,” and that she was the “trigger” for the problem. I was feeling it.
In his confessional, Kody exclaimed, “You guys are all kind of assholes. I don’t want to be around you, I’m sick of you, I don’t want to call you, I don’t want to talk to them.” “
“So, I’m done with Robin. I’m not going to talk to Robin anymore, I’m not going to do this. I’m doing my own thing. And Robin doesn’t understand that he can feel this way.” “I’m angry that I can’t do it because I’m not interested in our lives anymore,” he continued. “I think this is what all the brothers are thinking: Now we’re going, Robin, take him, don’t worry about it anymore.” We don’t need people like that anymore.”
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Garrison said she wanted to maintain a smooth relationship with her siblings, but she also thought it was not a good idea to meet them in person, including Robin, who she said was “not emotionally mature.” Gwendolyn also said that she missed Aurora, but also felt that if Aurora got involved, Robin would “probably manipulate us or start crying.”
Gabe also said he had spoken to Aurora at school, saying, “She’s the only person in my family I’ve heard say ‘I love you’ since COVID.” It surprised everyone. Aurora said in her own confession that he was also kind to her in person.
After Savannah said she felt Kody still loved them but was “just mad” at them for “no reason,” Garrison said they weren’t ready to forgive him. However, he said he had no intention of “chasing” him for an apology.
Cody claimed he contacted the two boys around Christmas but received no response. “They’re blocking me. They’re not interested in talking to me,” he said. The boys did not seem to respond to his claims.
Robin, on the other hand, said they wouldn’t see her as “anything but a bad guy.”
New episodes of Sister Wives air Sundays on TLC, MAX, and Discovery+.