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In Robyn’s case, the story would go, “she wanted a pony, but got a horse’s ass instead.”

I like Josh, too—most of his bakes seem like the ones I would reach for on a dessert table. Caterpillar cakes are apparently very popular for kid birthdays in the Uk and are sold by many food retailers.

And in their pre-teen and teen years, they eat like ravenous animals, lol! Kail’s grocery bills are going to be huge!

I can’t imagine a fundie woman doing Diesel ads—they were quite provocative and controversial. Diesel jeans are expensive, maybe that’s why Kody chose that brand to brag about what a “hot” catch Robyn was.

I’m sure Salsa Brava could accommodate the Browns for a private gathering. Invite everyone, and leave it up to each individual adult to decide if they want to attend. Robyn and Kody have put the family in a “catch-22” situation— they can’t resolve their differences if they don’t get together and they can’t get together until they resolve their differences. At least Kody and Garrison and Gabe could meet in a neutral public place, in person, and have a discussion to try to make peace. A phone call or texting isn’t going to do anything positive now.

When I watched that scene at the dinner table, I thought how much more mature the G’s were than their father. However, seeing Gabe ‘s face and Gwen holding back tears made me sad. No matter how big of a jerk their father is, he’s the only one they have. My father died last year (aged 88) and even though I am an older adult, sometimes I wish I could still talk to him, ask him things, etc. We argued many times during my teens and twenties— often disagreeing on many issues including politics and religion. However, he always let me express myself, as long as I was respectful.

Christine looks radiantly happy in the wedding pics and Janelle looks great, too. I do wonder if Meri was invited and decided not to come (due to her brother’s death) or if she wasn’t invited. I hope Kody sees the pics and it feels like a knife in his other kidney.

And if Kody dies without a will specifically stating otherwise, Robyn (if she survives him) gets 6 claims on the land or 2/3 of the property. Why is this fair? No wonder Janelle was determined to get her little house built and stake her claim.

Exactly—Christmas and New Year’s Day are the same day for the whole family. There is no excuse short of being unconscious to not at least shoot a family text to everyone that he did not see over the holidays. Also, the pics that a fan a fan took of Kody and Robyn shopping in Phoenix were in Jan. Of 2022– he had time to do that, but not contact Savanah? What a giant hair-topped turd.

I also think protecting their “brand” and the narrative of the show came into play. Money means a lot to Kody— he told Suki that poverty was his biggest fear. He was willing to keep Meri around for as long as he could stand to protect the show —as well as potentially benefiting from some of Meri’s income that she could add to the family pot.

Meri also used to do Christmas Eve for the family. Also, didn’t the catfish attend one of the Mlm parties? I think yet another reason that Meri got her way with the bigger house was that Kody also owned it because they were legally married at the time.

Kody seems to think the words disagree, disrespect, and disobey are synonyms. They are not. I also think he does not know what the word “gaslighting” means at all. The argument with Janelle showed just how weak Kody is. He can’t man up and talk to his sons directly — he wants Janelle to do his dirty work. He cannot successfully rebut Janelle ‘s statements so he talks over her and finally storms out the door like a child who says “nah, nah, nah, I’m not listening to you!”

People’s site has reported that Leon and Audrey married in a “ secret” courthouse ceremony last October. I figured they had married already because they were both wearing gold bands on their ring fingers. I guess they decided to forgo the TLC -filmed route.

I don't know if there is actual evidence, but Jon said the facility said Colin had been visited only 3 times and it had been very long (can't remember what he said exactly) that Colin had been visited by her--or anyone, for that matter. Sad, really. Many of these places advise family therapy sessions with the parents and the patient--did Kate do any therapy or take the other kids to therapy totally about Colin? Did she just make Colin disappear and give the other kids the same line she told the press--"Colin is where he needs to be"--it doesn't seem as if she made any effort to reintegrate Colin back into the family at all. Kate apparently, according to Hannah, didn't tell the kids what exactly happened to Colin. When Hannah found out, she refused to go home with Kate after a dentist appointment and wanted to go home with Jon. It was reported online that the police were called. I tend to believe Colin, Jon and Hannah's version of events more because there were too many instances on camera where Kate singled Colin out for misbehaving when he was not doing anything particularly egregious. I'm not denying that he had behavior issues and may have been a "difficult" child--just that Kate did not have the personality to deal with him. I'm so hard on Kate because I have a (now grown) daughter who is bi-polar and has struggled with an eating disorder. Believe me, the teenage years were rough (screaming, physical outbursts and threats) I drove her out to Hershey Medical for anorexia treatment, attended family therapy sessions, etc.--but I never gave up on her. Kate gave up on her 11-12 year old and still has no interest in healing her relationship with him.

Kate can miss me with her word salad crap. What excuse does she have for not even visiting her own son during his “treatment”— if said treatment was effective and needed, surely she could have had visitation at the facility. This was years that she abandoned her son— you don’t go no contact with your 12 year old child, period. In her diary that was leaked, Kate writes about how she had spanked Colin so hard she scared herself and how she pulled him up by his hair when he was little. She chose him as the scapegoat because he likely did have behavioral issues and that wasn’t allowed in her controlled world.

Everyone looks like they're having a good time in the pics above. Mykelti looks great and the twins are adorable. I agree that Christine's jumpsuit should have been fitted better, though. I'm glad for Gwen that her father showed up to the wedding. She had said in one of her videos that she invited him to come and hoped that he would (as well as the rest of the Robyn family).

My mother used to say certain people “suck all of the air out of the room.” I think someone like Kody is very draining because he thinks he’s the main character and everyone else is just supporting players or props.

Me, too--the first cup in heated in the microwave, but I put the kettle on the stove for the second cup and drink the first while it comes to a boil. (Yes, odd little routine I have.) Milk and sugar are non-issues because I drink it black (except when I'm sick, then lemon and honey.)

Apparently according to the above Instagram, April is pregnant with the “older” guy’s baby. She’s due in August. I’m aging myself here, but April reminded me of Rachel from MTV’s Real World.

I thought that rock looked more like a butt than a heart, but I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Oh, I by no means think it was a smart financial move on Janelle’s part. I think of her as still believing in the “family” and her marriage to Kody at the time and was really, really trying to get him to pay off the land so that she could build her house. Janelle had argued with Kody about not qualifying for a building loan if she had bought Christine’s house or another house. I could see Kody making campaign promises that she could still qualify for a building loan if she were NOT the sole owner of another home. Now, that may not be true, but Kody, under the guise of his “headship” has been known in the past to convince the OG wives of going with his schemes.

Right— here in PA there are a ton of places, particularly in the Poconos, that have seasonal sites. Some campgrounds will winterize your trailer, too. Many of them not only have hookups, they are communities with fishing lakes, clubhouses, pools, activities etc. Janelle bought her trailer and plopped it on CP as a “put up or shut up” ultimatum to Kody, imo. She did it so that he couldn’t convince her to “think creatively” and buy Christine’s house or another house that he would want his (and probably Robyn’s) name on the deed. Of course he wouldn’t want his name on the mortgage—Janelle would’ve been solely responsible for that. I wouldn’t put it past Kody to use his salesman/religious guilt skills on Janelle to finagle part ownership of any house she could have purchased.

@KeHuy I’ve watched all of Gwen’s reaction videos, and I heard nothing approaching vitriol from her about Robyn’s kids. Ymmv

Exactly—wasn’t that what Robyn basically said about her first marriage to Jessop and subsequent marriage to Kody? The creepy drawing she gave toKody and her statement that she and he “shoulda been together since day one” illustrates that belief. In fundamentalist Mormon sects it is nothing to re-assign wives and children to a new man. As you posted, Christine doesn’t believe in that particular religion anymore, so the point is moot.

I have he feeling that Kody thinks all of the show money is “ his” money— that the family pot belongs to him because he is the head of the family (and the “star” of the show in his own mind). If the budget for the show is fixed, he likely sees any money going to other’s contracts as somehow being taken from him.