Roslyn

(Read in the Mykelti thread, but moved my response to here...) From my perspective on the subject of "Meri being happy"...my feeling is she is very miserable. All those weird "sayings" they all seem to have all over their house is just some convoluted way to keep driving into your head what you are trying to "be". Social Media posts to get attention (sitting in the woods taking selfies...happy happy surrounded by "friends" etc) When I was in my deepest depression I kept myself busy, busy, insanely busy. I didn't have one moment to actually sit and think about anything other than what else I need to get done now, soon, today, tomorrow, next week etc. My stress level was over the top and I never took a moment to consider anything. All of these weird "look at me so happy, so busy, so successful" that come from Meri makes me think she is miserable and just filling her time and posting to prove (especially to herself) how absolutely fabulous she is. Hell, even the Lulastuff info says they expect these women to always be posting to show others how wonderful it all is. I now live a slow moving, controlled environment life. Those 3/4 years I spent in the bottom of a deep, dark hole are years ago, however they are black years. I have no solid memories, if it weren't for dates written in notebooks and time stamps on photos I took of cakes at work, kids, pets and gardens...I wouldn't really know what had gone on during that time. I just remember I wouldn't let myself stop, it was how I coped.

...the Michael Scott version...

But...but...it's a BizzNess expense! Cause, you know, she's an EnTrepreNeur!!

Ahh. I searched for her page and then just touched her profile pic. If it has that funny pink circle around it, that means there is a new "story" posted. I now see the other ones further down the page and yes...there are just too many. I have a feeling she is very, very over the top in person... We might need to borrow professional sized water hoses....

lolol I did just this and the current numbers are 36% yes, 64% no... If you want to jump from each story submission you can touch the little bar at the top so you don't have to sit through the timing of each one. My finger can't do it if there are a lot, but I have a stylus with my phone and that helps.

My Grandmother always kept powdered milk around and she would mix it up for herself. She preferred the taste because she drank it as a child during the depression.

To add to both of these... According to CJ's blog during the whole debacle, at some point Robyn (or maybe Kendra herself...I'm not sure) started a page on facebook and Kendra was her "right hand man". It quickly became a shit show and Robyn left any and ALL facebook policing to Kendra. Kendra was an over the top bull dog (CJ referred to her as the Junk Yard Dog) who went absolute full blown psycho on anyone who ever said anything remotely negative about Robyn or the Brown family in general. Kendra did/said horrid things like wishing death and painful cancers on people who spoke their opinion about the family. She really came across as a nutter. I do remember at some point she did (what so many did back then...) cried "oh my! I've been hacked" to try to get sympathy when people were outraged and such. And yes, these days when you see one of those pathetic clickbait "articles" online that state "sources close to the family" they are most likely "quoting" some trash Kendra has passed on.

Well...it makes you wonder if Meri was at the auction in 1987 and bought stuff and then has kept it. Things belonging to her family...technically...from that time wouldn't necessarily mean that it came from Lizzie's actual lifetime. Meri is one of those people who doesn't just want some random thing cluttering up the counter (hem...hem...Robyn...), but each item needs to have this connection and story to go with it. When she is "showing off" her stuff she just bubbles and glows when telling those "stories". She made a dig at Janelle (as she loves to do on camera) about how she likes nice things and knows how to take care of them...

I have a sinking suspicion that what we see in Mariah (especially the most self aggrandizing snark worthy moments) is a window into Kody's very over the top personality. Imagine young Kody, trying to impress his newly converted father, trying to stand out in a crowd of siblings, embracing his newly found fundamental faith, and needing a constant supply of attention and validation. The only thing missing between Kody and Mariah being this level of over the top "I am the only one who matters" is the internet and social media presence. Kody's audience would have been limited to the endless church get togethers and functions to hold captive attention to the swarming of women. After marrying Meri, then his need for attention was easily met by his young, clingy, needy wife. Mariah has many of Meri's traits. They have come out over the years. Even Meri said on camera that she knows what Kody goes through when dealing with her, because she is now feeling that side of things when she is dealing with Mariah. Sadly, I don't think Meri can learn (and learn deeply) from these things. Poor Mariah got a double whammy personality with her genetics. And poor Audrey. If she is coming out saying about depression since going to Chicago, yet everyone is seeing how Mariah is so filled with the love of self and soaking in the love of the city...yet her chosen partner is struggling...it makes you wonder if a large part of that is the fact that Audrey gets to watch Mariah soak up all the attention from her followers, yet not give any attention back. In a way it is a three way relationship. Mariah in person, Audrey and Instagram Mariah. Sadly Mariah only seems to have eyes for Instagram and herself.

Yes...Robyn has had her own stupid shit moments on social media. I vaguely remember something about her taking selfies in the middle of the night arguing with someone on facebook. I was never involved with any of the facebook shenanigans that went on during the Kendra/Catfish years, only remember reading on CJ's blog. But after that Robyn seemed to really pull back hard with her kids on camera (they used to always be front and center) and social media as a whole. Also, since moving to Flagstaff Robyn is missing a very big piece of the puzzle...Mindy. She doesn't have her live in helper and is on her own with just Kody for all those forced feeding sessions and blow out diapers. However, her activity on Pintrest is still going strong...

Yea. He has always given me the vibe of it just doesn't matter how he looks, behaves etc. But if Mykelti doesn't behave how he likes, dresses how he likes, wears her hair how he likes etc etc he will be front and center to let her know. In their early couch interviews she seemed to cow-tow to him quickly and easily. Christine even remarked that Mykelti was not herself with Tony. She was quiet and reserved. Mykelti is that kind of middle lost child (in my observation opinion). Doing plenty to try to get that much needed attention (especially male attention) and yet never getting it. Tony gives her plenty of attention, but is it caring/nurturing attention? Or masked control?

I believe someone on their Instagrams or something they stated that Ysabel was in control of Truely's Instagram. Yea...she is older, but she isn't an adult. I'm in the train car of NO social media for young children, being on telly is bad enough. Being here and there through her mother's profile is at least under control of an adult... I'm just glad I didn't have that decision to make with my kids.

Hell yes it will go through the breast milk!! The worst night of screaming I ever experienced with my first born son was after I ate broccoli. NO idea why, but 12 hours later he screamed bloody murder, he would latch, and then gag and spit it out. Ugh. He is now 27 years old and even the smell of broccoli makes him gag...

Yep. I have wondered if all this babble coming from Janelle isn't something similar to this. Way back when she worked hard with the trainer that was on tv...Sean? We could actually see results from her and then he disappeared and she went right back to where she was in the beginning. Now this Strive babbling crappola seems to be nothing more than a way to justify (and to use the Browns favorite word....validate) the fact that Janelle doesn't want to and isn't willing to put the work in again to gain results like last time. Coupled with the fact that hubby love only has eyes for another, and only has time with others, she has nothing to do as her kids are mostly gone and mostly "raised by her". She can just pile on three feet of snow job to brainwash herself that as long as she forces "rock star", "game changing" super douper power foods (no matter how bizarre) down her gullet (smoothies preferred) that she is "living a healthy lifestyle no matter what the physical result. What is really funny is that one person in the family that is looking better, losing weight and having results from something that they are doing...huh...that person is the ONE person who is not saying a damn word (publicly) about what they are doing/have done at all. 🙄

To add onto this tidbit...Meri also told the story of how she was so shy and unnoticeable within her own community that once she was on the arm of outgoing Kody, people then noticed her but didn't know that she had been a part of their community all along.

Even from the beginning their narrative never fully lined up. They clearly stated on the first or second episode of the show that it was Meri or organized the whole thing. Janelle said something like "Meri is in mergers and acquisitions..." oh hehe, laugh laugh, isn't that funny. Yet not long after their book came out and it painted a different picture. Janelle told the story of when she very first saw Kody and how this divine power struck her and she felt "like she had forgotten something". Whatever the hell that means. If you put two and two together, she was likely married to Meri's brother at the time, as DakotaJ mentioned. They aren't nailed down definite about the exact timeline. Janelle was married and divorced within a year because her husband wasn't spiritual enough for her. Yet there is a three year span between Kody/Meri being married and Janelle "marrying" Kody. Fun tidbit...the original date for the union between Kody and Janelle was planned for Meri's birthday. Naturally no one thought a thing of it, but Meri pointed out how upset she was and they then moved the day...to the next day. 🙄 Meri agreed to polygamy because she had to to get her man. He was a fresh convert and had many discussions with Meri's father and the only way her father would let her marry him was if he agreed to polygamy. The only way she could marry him was to agree to polygamy. Janelle wanted Kody. Period. She converted from mainstream LDS so she could get the man she wanted. It took three years and it has never been stated exactly when she married/divorced and when she started "having lunches alone" with Kody. Christine made it pretty clear, she had decided as a young girl she only wanted to be a third wife, she didn't want the pain of having anyone come after her (it sucks because she got hit the hardest by Robyn because of that) and she wanted Kody as well. So much that she sat around waiting until he got himself two wives and then bingo she put her talons in him.

I think this can apply to both of them... "If you have a baby, you won't be the baby..."

Oh come ON! It's obvious. No purple countertops...

Oh come ON ladies, put the hose down and pass the eye bleach!!

I agree with DakotaJustice. Queen Robyn sitting atop her hill in her castle will look down on the shanty town Angelz Singink in the distance covered with single wides, Tom Green style....

If you touch the top of the screen during a "story" feed it will stop the progression to the next one so you can actually look at the photo or read the text.

I have suspected for a long time that any kind of sensibility that is in the children comes from Logan's influence in their young lives. The adults once said that "he was just born responsible" as if young Logan just took over the raising of the children by his own choice and it wasn't thrust upon him, taking advantage of this magickal "responsible gene". He even stated on camera that he knew if he was to "be a good big brother to all the siblings, he would be stuck at home until he was 30." He knew damn well his only chance was to rip off the bandage in one swipe and live his own life, his own way. His decision with his girlfriend/fiancee to not have children (I think) speaks loudly to the fact that he has raised enough children for his lifetime. I can remember Robyn with her "stressin me out" face, wringing her hands because Logan was leaving for university. Instead of being proud of him she could only cry about how she needed him to be close always to influence raise her children just as he raised all the others. Because, you know...they shoulda all have been together from day one...

Yes. A a humble monogamous world comparison would be that Meri is the first wife Xwife who he has to have a civil relationship with for the sake of the whole family, and she is still accepted just enough to invite her to large family gatherings. She is tolerated only because of the general connection, not because they all really like her or anything. You know...all that baggage she brings into a room. Monogamous or not, that is exactly what she is. The xwife who is still part of the whole yet who lives completely independent of it. The whole damn family is nothing more than doublespeak. They put on a poorly contrived act for the sake of a television show and then put the actuality of it all on social media. You would think they would want to keep their "brand" unified, but I don't think any of them are remotely that smart.

I have a 250 foot hose that stretches from the house to my greenhouse... But I'm "only" 53. Am I "old" enough?? 🙂

...wow Honestly, it really frosts my cookies to hear when a parent uses the term "it" for their baby.