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I liked it. I love old, unusual spaces like an old carriage house. I liked most of the thoughts Meri expressed in her segment, although I have to say, I just don't care about Meri's friends. I suppose TLC thinks there has to be someone on-screen for Meri to interact with, but I just don't care about a bunch of new people. Same for David. He's nice and all but I just don't care. They're not original members of the show, and there's already a ton of kids/grandkids to keep track of on this show. I liked Meri's attitude about dating. She'll be ready when she's ready, and she seems to be taking time for herself to get over the end to a very long, difficult marriage.

Regarding the PDA issue, I find my position on it very hard to describe. I'm not a "no PDA" person. I actually think showing affection is great, usually, so I've been thinking about why Christine's PDA sessions bug me a bit. Part of it for me, I think, is where and how it's coming about. For one, there's a camera following her. Ten or twenty people around me in a romantic restaurant (who are involved in their own conversations and probably not even looking at me) would feel a lot different to me than if a camera was following me. Another is the venue they were at. They were looking for a place to hold a large wedding celebration. I've done the same thing, and while looking for venues, the former Mr. Sasha and I were not stopping to kiss, we were serious about asking questions of the person giving us the tour, and seeing if the place would meet our needs. I would imagine we held hands, looked in love, etc, but we didn't need to stop the whole tour to hold each other in an embrace and kiss. We were trying to accomplish a task, we weren't out on a romantic date. Also it just seemed over the top - a short, affectionate kiss or a pat on the bum wouldn't bother me at all. Standing there gazing into each other's eyes, kissing for a longer period of time than seems normal, munching away with all the tongue action...yeah, that's a no for me. It all just seems so....performative. It doesn't feel genuine at all to me. It feels more like Christine is trying to "prove" something.

This was so long ago I had forgotten about it. That's how slow this show is. However I will watch Meri remodel anything for the rest of my days if TLC will promise never to show me another scene of Christine and her tactless brood discussing pooping in front of people EVER AGAIN.

Oh God, he's back to "gossip" again. Dude, you are so obtuse.

Yep. Four people's names are left on the land. Splitting it up is not hard, unless you are trying to get more than your fourth and screw your ex-wives.

Until next week's episode....

Ha ha ha ha she called you selfish and self absorbed, buddy! 🤣

They're in a bistro? All week during the previews I wondered why Janelle and Kody were meeting in someone's attic.

How are any of these ruminations (from any of them) any different than last week's episode, the one before that, etc.

Mykelti, that last thing I think of when I think of your family is how "quick witted" you all are. 🙄

"Mykeltip" isn't the sharpest french fry that doesn't go all the way to the top.

I don't mind the new house too much, especially when compared to the one they are moving out of. I don't hate that one either, at least not as much as some people seem to...but I prefer this new one they are moving to over it. Of their homes in Flagstaff, the one I liked best was that first rental. I recently re-watched some old episodes, and had forgotten that house. (I don't know that if I had to spend my own money, I'd have chosen any of the 3 I've mentioned, though.) I agree that they seem to think the show will never end. Very bizarre. I'll be interested to see who moves into the guest house and that apartment/mother-in-law suite or whatever it's called in this new home. Her kids? Her mother? Mindy? Kody has plenty of "new" family to surround himself with, now that he's rid himself of his old family, because Robyn seems to be planning to bring in her whole tribe to live with them. I think Janelle hit the nail on the head when she said it would be very difficult for her kids to have a relationship with K&R because you have to agree to their delusional world view to have any relationship with them. They accept zero push back or discussion on anything they think, yet can't understand why the rest of the family doesn't like them. They are so odd.

I agree with this...there is no way he didn't know who she was. At some point it was mentioned that one of his kids had joked "maybe you could date Christine from Sister Wives!" I'm not saying there's something nefarious going on or it's all a big set up or anything...just that David and his family knew she had been in polygamy, and on a show. Why she pretends otherwise is odd, and annoying. Perhaps I misheard this, but didn't she also say she had to explain polygamy to some of the guys (all EIGHT of them!) that she dated before David? I don't buy that either. I cannot buy that any grown ass man who lives in UTAH hasn't heard of polygamy. I didn't believe it when Janelle claimed she knew nothing about it in season 1, and I don't believe this now. I live quite a ways from Utah, but I used to have a co-worker who would go visit her sister in Utah sometimes. Everyone in the office joked about "how many wives" there would be, etc. It's got to be one of the top things people think of when they hear "Utah". They can all stop acting like people have never heard of it.

I will be interested to see if Truely decides to spend any time with Kody. My first thought was that she would not, but after seeing this latest episode where she tries several times to physically shove her mom and David apart, I am now not so sure. I think Christine may have waited to sue for child support until Truely would be old enough to choose whether or not she wanted to visit her dad - thinking she'd choose not to visit K&R. But perhaps Truely surprised her, and said she did want the visits. And then Robyn leveraged that into getting herself a new house - because she "needed a room for Truely" (and tacked on a guest house and a downstairs apt for Dayton and her mother and whoever else she could think of). I'm no child psychologist, but Truely pushing and shoving on C&D made me think she is really, really upset. And Ysabel was making "gag" faces at how much they were hanging all over each other. I get that Christine has had a hard life, but so have her kids - can't she show them any respect? Her statements about how they better just get used to it, and "oh well, too bad" seem incredibly selfish to me. Christine's social media posts make everything seem fine, but Truely isn't taking this as well as I thought she was, and I wonder if she's decided to still have visits with her dad to get a break from the PDA twins. Christine does deserve child support and all that, but she really should grow up and start acting like a mother, or she will be the one "getting used to" her kids not wanting to be around her. It would be nice if Christine and Kody would spend as much time thinking about Truely's adjustment to this situation as we on this board do!

Me too. Equal work, equal pay, once their jobs became being on a TV show. I remember lots of discussions about how the money may have been split up back in the days before the show...because back then, they were really scrambling for money. At that time, I thought if Meri took an equal share while having only one child to feed and clothe, that was unfair (IF she did that...I don't think we really even know). And, I might add, if she did take more than her fair share, yes that's partly on her, but who was letting her? It's Kody's fault too, if it happened. However, once the show came along, my opinion changed because now everyone has enough. No one is going without, no child is having lower quality food or going without new clothes. Maybe that's not fair of me, but for me there's a difference between everyone struggling together, and everyone living the high life. I also think this is a big part of the family splitting apart - back in the day, they needed each other. They couldn't just go off to their own mansions and ignore each other. They HAD to work it out.