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Janelle's kids care a lot about her and are good to her. Kody putting her in positions where she feels like she has to choose between him and her kids is a big time miscalculation. I love watching him find out how insignificant he really is. 😆

THIS! If Maddie didn't post her every waking thought on SM, no one would make a single comment about her chewed fingernails. Easy peasy. She only wants comments that express envy, and people dying to know where she's jetting off to. 🙄 This is the real world, sweetheart. No one gives a shit. Take a look at the pic before you post it, nitwit. The biggest, most obvious thing in the pic is a big chewed fingernail. So expect comments on it, and stop being a thin-skinned baby. "Picking apart the way I live my life!!!" Over-dramatic hag. Get over yourself.

- A TV Show (he's not at all interesting as your basic monogamist douche wad) - The smug satisfaction of watching Meri debase herself over him after listening to the phone messages of her telling Catfish Sam that he was better than Kody on "all f*cking levels" - The ego boost of being chased - Revenge There's probably a lot of stuff a creep like Kody gets from letting pathetic Meri fawn all over him.

That's the one that bugs me the most. She saw a tiny space and had to cram a "pitcher" into it (and a clock under that!). Way in a corner and way up at the ceiling...UGH! What the hell Robyn. She's a tacky bitch who has trashed a beautiful home.

Robyn primly says that her mother says she is the Brown Family Scapegoat - as if that makes it a fact. Actually Robyn, the only thing that proves is that you call your mother and trash talk your family.

Good to know Robyn looked 40 when she was 18.

First let me point out my intent here is to snark on the Browns, not Roslyn, who merely posted what she found out about "giving grace" from doing a Google search. It's just convenient for me to quote it to make my point. ALL of these concepts are right in the BIBLE! These people want to come off as so religious, yet none of them appear to have read THAT particular book (too busy twisting scriptures about plural marriage, I guess). For instance, "Choose not to respond in kind" is just "Turn the other cheek" reworded. They're also just common sense concepts that anyone, religious or not, has practiced for centuries. Who doesn't understand simple things like that people aren't perfect, and that being kind and forgiving is going to be necessary if you want to get along with people? The Browns and many other people are frustrating to me with this nonsense...someone rewords a few common sense concepts, gives the concept a new buzzword type of name, and writes a book of platitudes about it, and morons from all over run out to jump on the band wagon and can't wait to tell you about the "new" thing they've discovered. Guess what idiots...the rest of us have known about these things for some time. And to bring it back to Meri, in particular, since this is her thread...she is missing the point, as usual. She talks very little about giving grace to others...the majority of the time if she brings it up, she's wanting others to give her grace, or talking about giving herself grace. I can't count how many times I've heard her say "You've got to give yourself grace!" Grace and forgiveness aren't a free pass to act however you want towards others, then be forgiven. No, you shouldn't beat yourself up, but the point of this concept is also to point this kindness and forgiveness outward, not just inward.

We finally got her on board! 🤣 Your new avatar just jumped off the page at me before I could even read the post...oh my God, I laughed SO HARD!!!! 🤣

Agree. Also, when you bleep something, you can usually still hear a bit of the ending of the bleeped word, because it bleeds into the next word a bit. To me it sounded like a "k" sound. I didn't hear BLEEP zoff, I heard BLEEP koff, so to speak (WOW does that look weird typed out!) I was cynical at first, when it was just a clip shown as a teaser all week leading up to the show, but after seeing the whole scene and taking that remark in context...she was getting pretty mad...mad enough to walk off while everyone else was still sitting there. I think she told him to f*** off. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Good question. Nobody really knows what this family's goofy buzzwords mean. I get your point and that it's a rhetorical question. Just for fun, though - a recent example from the show (paraphrasing what Meri said) : I wasn't always a perfect sister wife, I suppose there were things I could have done better, but you have to give yourself grace!!! So I'm guessing it means - take no responsibility for the things you've done. No need to apologize, look at things objectively, or grow as a person. Maybe you shouldn't have been a raging bitch, but it's a lot easier to just forgive yourself and sweep it under the rug.

One possible thought that comes to mind is this: If you've been given at least some attention growing up, and then suddenly are thrown under the bus after a certain age, like he does to his sons, you're angry. Something's been taken away from you, and you don't understand it. If you've never gotten any attention or affection, nothing has changed and you just fight your whole life to be noticed. Maybe you even name your daughter after the dickhead.

I couldn't agree more. None of those 12 kids seem willing to put forth any effort to see Meri, and that tells me a lot about Meri. One of them, Maddie, has even called her abusive and gone no contact with her. That's how Meri treated people when she was Head Bitch. How she treats people now that's she low man on the totem pole is of little interest to me. Anyone can be nice when they need something. Reminds me of the old saying "A person who's nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person." She's just sucking up to the current Head Bitch and trying to get into Kody's house, because let's face it, he lives there full time. Wherever Robyn and her kids are, that's where Kody's going to be (except it didn't work - he's hiding from her, and isn't even in this clip! 😆). She has her own agenda. If she's developed some kind of relationship with those kids that's great, but there are also ulterior motives going on. Meri (and plenty of the others) are aware of optics...they probably know it has become obvious on the show that Meri was not a good bonus mom to the first 12, and they are backpedaling by trying to show what a great bonus mom she is to Robyn's kids. Also, if Meri was sitting at home all alone following the rules, there was no reason for a "touching reunion"...because if everything is as they say it was, there was no reason to exclude Meri in the first place.

Yes, for Miss Super Special Kody would make it happen no matter the cost. Of course, that assumes they would trust an actual doctor...they're so weird about that. Maybe they're trying every roadside IV tent they come across first! 🤣

I agree, and it's not just the neck thing...look at her face. Yes she has gained some weight, but when you see a full shot of her, it doesn't seem to me that she's gained enough to make her face this much wider than it used to be. She's puffed up like a bullfrog. Oh wait, doctors mean insurance, and money spent on your health and not just showy, fun things...so, yeah, probably won't happen.

Excellent point. "Local family only" was one of the rules on that sheet. Meri also didn't follow them all along like she said, we saw a filmed scene of her going to Utah to get her mother, talking to her little nephew, traveling to the B&B to film her banana bread making with Mariah and Audrey, etc. They've all traveled and/or had guests, yet only Janelle & Christine get blamed for it. And then Robyn and Meri have the nerve to both think THEY are the scapegoats.

Thanks for the link! This woman is disgusting, divisive, and horrible. I don't believe for an instant that this was the first time she's talked to her kids about it. Look how quickly Aurora jumped in and parroted back exactly what Mommy would want her to say. Other wives should just have to give up on seeing their adult kids? Easy to say when you're the one whose kids haven't moved out yet. What happened to Kody's fantasy...you know, the one where he needs a whole big guest house for the droves of adult kids who will be dying to come to Flagstaff to visit him. 🤣

Good point, I forgot to include "Poor Dr. Now"! The smells alone!!! 😆 Your mention of "not going into anyone's home in awhile" made me think of something else....would these people feel free to get naked to show their displeasure if the counseling session or physical therapy session was in the therapist's office? I doubt it, and it would be a more actionable offense if they did, I would imagine. It might cut down on my business, but I'd refuse to do house calls after an incident like this, if I were a therapist of some kind. Wow! Good catch! I didn't notice that. Well that really proves her intent, doesn't it.

Exactly! And would the producers have shown it on the episode? Just blurred out the area and continued filming? Maybe they would have, I don't know. I mean, they seem to want to film things for the shock value. But I have to wonder if it would have been treated differently if a man did it, and that's not okay in my book. Margaret should be held to the same standard as any male patient. He was certainly wearing nothing but a sheet as often as he could get away with it...I don't know that they actually let him expose his genitals to anyone who came to his apt to help him...he had a personal care assistant (who deserved hazard pay...Princess I think was her name) who came by during filming. That's just what I remember being on film though, I would make no bets on what that jackass would do when the camera crew wasn't there. I wouldn't put anything past him! Poor Princess, poor Dr. Paradise, poor nutritionists who get treated like garbage...these people who go into these homes, my gosh, what a job to have to do. Going into filthy rat's nests to help obstinate people who don't want help, and then they treat you like this.

I agree so much with what everyone's saying about Margaret's nakedness. I was so shocked I had to pause the show and just say "Oh my God" out loud several times. I could not believe it. I believe Margaret knew exactly what she was doing, and this was a deliberate "Fuck You" to people she did not want to talk to. She did not want physical therapy, and she did not want counseling from Dr. Paradise. Now imagine, for a moment, that a male poundticipant took their penis out in the same situations. That is essentially what she did...she "shook her dick" at anything and anyone she didn't like, so to speak. Margaret would have stopped receiving ANY help at all at that point, if I was in charge of the show. I wouldn't have put those therapists through any more of that, and I don't blame the two female PT's from the beginning for never showing up again. At the very least I hope she received one hell of a scathing call from Dr. Now. She's absolutely vile. On a lighter note...I did feel her reprehensible behavior gave me full permission to mock her, so I had one hell of a good time laughing at her when she threw her "I'm walking out" tantrum at Dr. Paradise. "You can't take my mommy from me!" 😆 Followed by the slowest angry stomp-off in the history of the world! Then she sits there, literally a few feet away in the bathroom, with her bratty look on her face while he just calmly continues to talk to her messed up mother. Yep, you really showed him!

Not to ruin everyone's fun snarking, but I took the "2 cups" statement to mean something different. Margaret appears to be eating take-out salads from a restaurant. I assumed "cups" meant the little container a restaurant puts your dressing in, when you order a salad and they serve your dressing on the side. I don't believe anyone could dump 2 measuring cups of dressing on a salad. It would be disgusting beyond belief, even to someone who loves dressing. I think Goofball Mom's mention of "cups" means "containers". That said, Margaret was on a very strict Dr Now style diet, and should not have been having an extra container of dressing on each salad.

Agree, @Roslyn and @LilyD, Kody can't seem to change and grow in a relationship...just wanted to add, he cannot grow and change with the times, either. He had been stuck in this conversation with Janelle about her boys because he keeps insisting that they are over 18 and that's when his dad Winn gave him the boot. He won't consider that times are different now (housing is astronomical in the US right now) and that some of these factors might be different for his boys than they were for him. Also, he doesn't seem to consider the possibility that maybe his dad didn't do the right thing. His father was also behind the times. I am near Kody's age, and while it may have been alright in decades past for a kid to be expected to leave home at 18 and get a job, by the time Kody and I were coming of age, you were going to have a hard time getting any decent job in the US without a college education. He has never gotten one - maybe he was disinterested in doing so and that's fine - but it was common in the US at that time to offer at least some help, like a place to live, to a young adult child so they could get that education. The 90's weren't the 40's, a degree or some kind of technical school were important and it is even more so today. Winn was behind the times even then, and Kody uses that as his excuse to evict his kids in 2022. It's also become more common to help young adults save up for a home after they start working. Maybe even more so than in the 90's when Kody was a very young adult. We don't have to parent exactly the way our parents did. We can treat our kids better than we were treated. He could also consider that the mother in this case, Janelle, does not want to do things this way, and that perhaps she should have a say, too. It's very fortunate for Janelle that his name is not on her lease...he's been pretty clear that he would evict her boys from her home, where he is hardly ever present, without her consent if he was able. He has no interest in listening to her rational arguments about WHY the boys need to stay for a bit longer, he just keeps beating his "this is how it was done to me!" drum. Get with the times, Kody.

Translation: I need you to buy this shit EVERY month, not just this month! I live in a van down by the river, FFS! Help a sister(wife) out!

Is STRIVE now just one big, long Plexus commercial that people pay for the privilege of seeing? Or does she actually keep those two "businesses" separate? By that I mean technically separate, like separate social media posts or separate Instagram accounts...because there's really nothing to stop her from reaching out to her biggest STRIVE suckers and suggesting Plexus. If you're dumb enough to purchase one, you're dumb enough to purchase the other. Hmmmm....grift the same group of people twice....maybe Janelle is the smartest Brown.

Hmmm. A half-face "Sam" style pic. I guess Janelle's feeling nostalgic. 😆

That's one isolated instance of what they said, about Thanksgiving. My response and original post was meant to include young married adults like Aspyn and Mykelti, and their husbands, as well as the boys, and over the whole time period, not just Thanksgiving. I mentioned them all by name. Some of the kids couldn't follow the list, which you mentioned in your post as well. So I am unsure how this became only about those 2 boys, and only Thanksgiving. I meant everyone, and I meant all the time, not just 2 weeks before Thanksgiving. Gabe can't always skip 2 weeks of classes and over larger time periods, Garrison will have Guard Drills. That's military, and he's not allowed to skip it for Kody's rules. Regardless, my opinion is that Kody makes rules that a lot of people can't follow, then blames everyone around him for not wanting to be part of the family. Your mileage may vary.