[Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)]

I find it extremely creepy that Jill is asking people she doesn't really know to send her daughter friend requests.  Is Kaylee supposed to accept all of them?  Is there any vetting involved?  Or are they just all potential Plexus marks for Jill?

As always, excellent parenting, Jill.  

[S13.E06: Ring Around the Rumor]

4 minutes ago, Cosmocrush said:

What’s really weird to me is all the negative comments on Kyle not drinking and exercising.  I don’t see that as anything more than self care during a rough period in her personal life.  Would they be happier if she was day drinking and packing on the pounds?

I think they would be ecstatic, lol.

[Meri Brown and her Wet Bar of Tears]

15 hours ago, Teri313 said:

The person who took this picture posted it on Reddit and said they had been holding hands, according to https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/sister-wives-meri-brown-seen-holding-hands-with-new-man/ar-AA1jIceU

It does look like Kody's brother, but also the woman on the right in the picture looks exactly like Christine, lol.

[Spoiler, Speculation and Social Media]

15 hours ago, RazzleberryPie said:

She equated expensive with superior. I think she was harsher to Maddie and Mykelti especially because she saw them as Leon’s competitors. 

It's bad enough in polygamy to know that if you get in an argument with your husband, he can simply exit stage left and climb into bed with another woman while you sit alone with no one to turn to.  What's worse is that your husband - KODY - can take out his anger on the kids you have together.  I cannot imagine a life where every single day you have to fight not only for yourself, but to make sure your kids aren't being neglected or made to feel less than because Daddy is mad at Mommy.

I don't love that Meri was harsher to the kids closest in age to Leon - those who she probably thought were Leon's competition for Kody's attention - but I can sadly understand it, especially when it is happening right across the cul-de-sac from your front door and you can't help but see it every single day.

 

14 hours ago, politichick said:

I've only watched this show very casually. What I want to know is why didn't Meri use some of that budget to get a decent haircut. Each time I look at her head, I'm, like, who the fuck did that to you?

Meri self-describes as "edgy."  Hence, the hedge-clipper haircuts.

I kind of get what she's going for, but she misses the mark a lot.

Listen to me, siding with Meri.  I don't even know who I am anymore!

[Spoiler, Speculation and Social Media]

2 hours ago, ginger90 said:

Perhaps some haven’t had lunch yet. I present to you, word salad.

 

https://people.com/sister-wives-robyn-brown-traces-plural-divorce-to-las-vegas-move-exclusive-8407736

Because it can't be said enough...shut up, Robyn.

She and Kody both love a good word salad because at this point, neither one of them can remember what's real and what they've made up in revisionist history.  Better to just confuse whoever is asking the questions until they go away, shaking their heads in complete befuddlement.

[Spoiler, Speculation and Social Media]

On 11/27/2023 at 11:18 AM, Absolom said:

Yes, it was pay off the two lots that had loans or they could lose what they had put into them as they would revert to the seller.  

Now it makes more sense to me why Janelle was crying that she had nothing in her name.  I can see the scenario where foreclosure was looming on the horizon and if Kody and Robyn were dragging their heels on paying off the land, it would naturally fall to Janelle (and probably Meri, but I sense that she is in a better financial situation than Janelle) to make sure it happened.  I can also see Kody whining that he's raising a houseful of tenders and simply doesn't have the money  - meanwhile, he's snatching up every piece of weird art and retired Dicken's Village figurines he can get his hands on so his money isn't liquid.

Which could ALSO be why Robyn refused for so long to have the inside of her house filmed, and wouldn't let Meri inside.

I need Janelle or Meri to write a book and spill this tea.

[Meri Brown and her Wet Bar of Tears]

On 11/26/2023 at 11:24 AM, MMEButterfly said:

I don't even care about the cat fishing. I know enough. I want Meri to dish on Kodi and Robyn. 

And spill on the whole Janelle divorcing Meri's brother to marry Kody thing.  I demand answers on this!

If Meri did write a book, I would definitely ask my library to buy it and then go pick it up under cover of darkness like I did with Becoming Sister Wives. :)

11 minutes ago, Quickbeam said:

Lake Michigan! *calls WI border patrol to BOLO*

My thought was - what part of my lake were you on, Meri?

[S18.E15: One on One: Part 1]

Kody said he didn't "vet" his first three wives - well, that's what happens when you meet someone, "court" for a month, and get married a few weeks later.

And Mr. Pec-tacular calling Janelle and whining that he needed her to fly across the country and bring him some chicken soup when he had Covid was hilarious.  Dude, get off your sore ass and call Shipt.  But worse was the fact that apparently Janelle was considering doing it.  I think he purposefully scared her into thinking he couldn't breathe or whatever in retaliation for her daring to go on vacation with his sworn mortal enemy Christine.

Just when I think there's not another lower level of pond scum that this guy can sink to, he does just that. 

[Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)]

On 11/26/2023 at 11:15 AM, xwordfanatik said:

When they all fart in unison, a couple of hours later.  😝

If this was part of the chili competition, then I can see how Dave won.

[Spoiler, Speculation and Social Media]

Can anyone shed light on when Coyote Pass was paid off, and why?  We knew they were never going to build on it.  They could only pretend for so long about their dreams of living in the trees or whatever.  What motivation would Meri and/or Janelle have to pay it off?  Am I right to assume that no one could sell their plot of land because it was also in Kody's and Robyn's names?

I will probably never understand but I want to try, lol.

[S18.E15: One on One: Part 1]

9 hours ago, 65mickey said:

Suki brought up to Kody that he didn't see his kids at Christmas and then allowed him to spend the narrative that is was because the boys blame Robyn and don't respect her. From there he went on a tirade about how Robyn's kids are bullied. She did not ask him what Savannah did to deserve being ignored at Christmas. No phone call, no present  nothing. 

I wish she had asked him too but we know why - because that's how Kody punishes his family members - taking out his rage on those who have done nothing wrong.  Janelle tells him to f*** off, so Kody ignores Savanah.  He is such a garbage father.

Also, Robyn - honestly, shut up.  This woman has whined and dry-cried for several seasons that she can never ever feel "safe" with anyone in this entire family except for maybe Meri, when it suits her.  So when Robyn told Suki that she would've gone to Christine's Christmas party with her kids?  What a load of crap.  She only said that because she 100% knew that there was no way she was going to get an invite.  It's easy to say what you would've done when there was no way it was ever going to happen in the first place.  

I also loved the beginning where Robyn accuses Kody of rewriting history and mumbles that "it happens a lot."  Says the Queen of Revisionist History.  Amazing.

Kody, no one - and I mean NO ONE - wants to hear about your pecs and abs ever again.  It's disgusting how he proclaims that Janelle used him for his body when he's been doing the same damn thing for the past 30 years, except with four different women.  

/rant......until next week.

[Spoiler, Speculation and Social Media]

On 11/26/2023 at 2:23 AM, Tuxcat said:

So yes, looks like they are transitioning to the David and Christine show + Janelle with special guest stars Tony and Mykelti.  Isn't this what we always wanted LOL?

I just need a quick series-ending fade-out scene of Robyn working the french fry machine at McDonald's, crying her eyebrows off, and then I will be perfectly content.

But fear not, fellow snarkers, I will be with this train wreck until the very end.  I haven't invested the last 35 years of my life to this show to walk away now, gosh darn it!  Stuff's getting rill - the wives are dilling with their fillings and basically collectively laughing in Kody's face and I am here for it.

[Spoiler, Speculation and Social Media]

Not sure where to put this but I wanted to mention the podcast Everyone's Business But Mine.  The host, Kara Berry, recaps SW episodes and her recap of this latest episode (the Picnic Table sob-fest) had me bent over double laughing.  Her impressions of Robyn are just as funny to me as the host of Surviving Sister Wives.  I look forward to both podcasts every week...and I swear, once in awhile I hear a reference on one of the shows that strongly suggests that the hosts read here. :)

[Christine Brown Woolley: Nacho Sister Wife Anymore]

5 minutes ago, ginger90 said:

She wasn’t named the most courageous, the title of the article:

“Behold, Variety’s 40 Most Powerful Women on Reality TV in 2023”

Cue Kody's kidneys wailing in agony while he rends his Ed Hardy shirts into pieces while Robyn rage-scribbles her eyebrows on until they're halfway up her forehead.

Brava, Christine!

[Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)]

I just imagine the exhausted motel staff fielding multiple calls from other guests about children playing on the exercise equipment, or that the pool area has been taken over by a screeching bottle-blonde and a plethora of fully-clothed kids, and probably the sound of a dozen pairs of footsteps pounding down the halls at all hours...not to mention what they leave in the rooms for the cleaning staff to deal with (probably a massive pile of filthy towels with a smiley tract on top).

I'd like to think that every time they leave another motel, the staff posts Jill's picture on the break room bulletin board warning everyone to tell her there are no vacancies if she happens to ever stop by again.

[S18.E14: Always Darkest Before the Dawn]

43 minutes ago, Meowwww said:

And then Robyn’s comment about how had GREAT relationships with his adult kids, but then Christine left and poof!  No more good relationships. They both blame Christine leaving for everything.  Kody’s acting like he was blindsided when she left….its all so maddening.  Idiots. 

I laughed out loud when she said this (to be fair, I laugh out loud often when she opens her mouth).  Bad relationship with the kids?  Christine's fault.  Can't build on Coyote Pass?  Christine's fault.  Kody's rage, Robyn's tears, global warming, Pluto no longer a planet?  All Christine.  It's amazing the power this former basement wife has over Kody and Robyn.  No wonder Christine laughs like a maniac sometimes - it must be kind of fun living rent-free in Kody and Robyn's heads.

[Spoiler, Speculation and Social Media]

3 hours ago, endure said:

They all just repeat, repeat, repeat and then there's Robyn, and every time she starts crying I burst out laughing.

And I mumble, "shut up, Robyn."

As for Janelle's "grounded" business...again, pure speculation from the Surviving Sister Wives podcast, but they think she's going to go into business with Gabe and Garrison and grow weed.  

[Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)]

I wonder if Nurie's boys have naturally big eyes, or is that their default expression every time GrandMeMe comes screeching at them with her flip phone pointed at their faces?

[S18.E14: Always Darkest Before the Dawn]

So if Kody decided that he never loved Meri but he didn't want to be the one to break their covenant, and he wanted Meri to be the one to leave him...why did Robyn keep trying to get Meri to stay?

I realize that nothing these people do makes any actual sense.  I might as well be asking, if a pink elephant jumps over a mountain but the pond is dry, why won't the trees all face north?  Same basic idea.

[Spoiler, Speculation and Social Media]

14 hours ago, General Days said:

Also, I'm fairly certain the "art" is Kody's. (Mykelti mentioned that he sees it as an investment).

It's been suggested on a SW podcast that Kody is taking advice from the manosphere and putting his money into things like art, as a way to not have to pay anything out to his ex-wives.  I don't pretend to understand how that works (because couldn't he just be forced to sell the stuff?) but it would explain why he's such a "collector."

But let me tell you - if I had to look at that "art" every single day, I think it would be highly unsettling...I see lots of fire, smoke coming from something, a tree that seems to be ablaze, and while it might all be by the same artist it doesn't necessarily go together.  I'm no decorator but what I see is a mishmash of complicated colors all crammed together in an alcove.  I get a bit twitchy and claustrophobic just looking at it.

[Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)]

27 minutes ago, GeeGolly said:

There must be a sign saying no children under 13 (18?) are allowed on the exercise machines. Janessa's lovey could could get sucked into a treadmill or tangled in other equipment. Kids can wipe out on treadmills and get road rash like burns. Weights can be dropped on little feet. 

Its a wonder these kids haven't had more injuries than they've had.

I have had the same thoughts.  She puts her kids in danger regularly and I would say the vast majority of us take one quick glance at the pictures she posts and think, get those kids out of that situation!  Sadly, her kids probably have no idea that what they're doing can hurt them, and Jill is too busy encouraging them for her social media.  And if they do get injured?  More fodder for Instagram.

[S18.E14: Always Darkest Before the Dawn]

20 hours ago, bichonblitz said:

I still say Sobbyn doesn't have near the feelings for Kody as he does for her.

I did think that was true too, but it appears that the bloom is off the rose for both of them.  Hard to be madly in love with someone who says, "well maybe I'll leave you too, haha!" in front of the ex-wife who is in the process of doing exactly that.  Kody looked pissed and Robyn backtracked so fast, I'm surprised her eyebrows stayed intact.  Normally the Dark Queen doesn't mess up like that. 

17 hours ago, gaPeach said:

I do not understand all the hand wringing by Robyn over the other wives smartening up and leaving.

A. - she won't have anyone else to lord her superiority over, B. - without the other wives, there won't be a show and she won't be able to keep purchasing those delightful art pieces she has crammed over every available flat surface, and C. - she will be all alone with a giant manbaby who is becoming darker and scarier with every passing year.

 

14 hours ago, Flutterby said:

Is anyone else a little creeped out over Christine's maniacal laughter?  

I think it's years of repression, depression and heaviness coming off her in such strong waves, she forgot how to actually laugh.

[Jeremiah & Hannah: Done Counting and Done Caring]

4 hours ago, crazy8s said:

Jason was in the treehouse and James in a metal shed or something.

This sentence shouldn't have made me laugh as hard as it did....😂

[Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)]

Does Jill know that most people don't "decorate" their stairs?  Although I am sure she was probably thrilled to have all those brand-new flat surfaces to display some of her photographs and tchotchkes and whatnot.

And how long have they lived in the Barndo and didn't have access to the second floor?  Seems like that would be a fairly important task to complete, DAVE.

I'm so sorry for the people on vacation who are just trying to relax at the same motel where the Rods landed.  I imagine the acoustics in the enclosed pool area are pretty amazing for caterwauling in 10-part harmony, too.

[S18.E14: Always Darkest Before the Dawn]

That "sacred covenant" thing was super interesting also because I feel like Kody went off script there in a big way, and Robyn doesn't know how to act when she and Kody haven't rehearsed their lines in the mirror before presenting their one-act plays for the other wives.

But why would Robyn make him promise that in the first place?  Possibly because A. - she never thought in a million years that he wouldn't be warm for her form, and she'd always be his one true lurrrve (blech) or B. - by asking him that, she was subconsciously putting the thought into his pea-brain that this is exactly what he should be doing - leaving when he is no longer in love - but with his OTHER wives.

Robyn has been playing with these people since before she even officially came into the family.  The fact that it seems to have finally caught up to her is beautiful.  She has to know that if even Meri, for crying out loud, has seen through her shenanigans, then the jig is truly up - which could account for her potentially real tears for the first time ever (still not 100% convinced, though).