LoneWolf

I just got my iPhone 11 yesterday. My daughter informed me last week our iPhone 5s will no longer work with the new iOS update. I'm the type that uses something until it dies beyond repair. I wasn't thrilled, I want my home button, thumb print recognition, and smaller size back. Alas, I'll adapt. I won't show off my 11.... I'm still steamed they phase phones out to force you to upgrade. My girls, however, are over the moon. They got XRs though.

This is at the heart of EVERY diet or weight loss program. One can reduce calories by cutting out an entire food group, or (better option) reducing overall calories and eating balanced, healthy food. Whatever she's doing, Christine looks great. I'd like to see her take over Strive with Janelle. I bet Christine would be so much more effective, as she has had significant success and she's a great deal more positive than Janelle.

Lol, I stared at their faces for some time trying to discern that.....I gave up.

Great pictures. I just can't help it--I like these girls. They seem like fun and kind people and like they're all really close and spend a lot of time together. Such refreshing standouts from the Brown clowns.

You know, I remember being in my late teens and very early twenties, and I do remember having the arrogant 'I know everything' perspective. I moved out at nineteen and worked full time and went to school full time--absolutely no financial help at all (my parents got by but there wasn't extra). Meeting my husband and getting married at 23 was a huge turning point, and I had my first brain tumour surgery just a few weeks before our wedding. The twenty years of battling cancer, watching my dad die a brutal death, and having my kids be diagnosed with the same disease has really been the impetus for me being a better person. I just don't think Mariah has 'been through' anything to the point where she's sobered and humbled by how little we do control in our lives. I don't think I'd be a fraction of the person I am today without suffering as I have. And I feel very blessed and by no means believe I have things too badly--there is so much suffering in the work and people who suffer much more than I ever will. The irony, as you mentioned, is that any Brown misery is mostly caused by CHOICES. They aren't victims of circumstance but victims of their own chosen paths--paths they continue to walk down (or SoulCycle through). Baffling.

I thought so, too. I don't by any means live in a mansion, but even my closet has built in shelving that is attractive and functional. It seems like a lot of the fixtures are basic (purple countertops, anyone?). They're fortunate to have the option to buy the furniture, I suppose. At my ripe old age of forty, I'm at the point where I'm so grateful we bought modestly when it comes to our home. My kids are teens now and soon will be off being awesome adults in the world and it'll just be Mr Wolf and I. The more space I have, the easier it is to fill it, and I'm not into clutter. Good luck with that huge house, Robyn.

I am an original COL, and I will help you burn that shirt. I must thank everyone on these threads. Long story short, I've been fighting cancer for close to twenty years--it's like wack-a-mole, I have tumours everywhere (it's a rare, genetic disease--my dad died from it 😔 and my teen kids have it 😔). Anyhow, I'm a really positive, optimistic person but I have a lot of pain, illness, anxiety, and sleepless nights. I come to these boards and it never fails to pick up my spirits. I rarely watch tv and don't even watch Sister Wives really so I'm not active on any other social media/forums. But you all keep me coming back for several reasons. One, you all are some of the last people on earth who can write intelligent, witty posts without typos, misspellings, grammatical and punctuation errors. Also, you all are insightful and I enjoy our everlasting quest to figure out why the Browns do what they do. You all seem like really great people with whom I'd be honoured to know in real life. I find a great many like-minded people here and most of all, y'all are so fucking funny--intelligent humour. I have a lot of blessings in my life but I also have a lot of suffering. Your posts often give me a respite and I can always count on you to lift up my spirits. I've been known to laugh at these comments in the middle of the night, waking my husband and startling our puppy. To all of you: a very big and sincere thank you. I'm a bit embarrassed to ask, but can someone help me out--what is COL??😳

So I see the House was built in 2007 because I thought it had to be one of those bizarre experimental 1970s architectural monstrosities. I actually zoomed in that pic of the feature wall because I was all WTF are those pillar things? It might (that's a big 'might') have been better if the whole wall was symmetrical, but one pillar is imbedded in the wall and the other is free standing. Who is going to clean that huge house? The dust has to be incredible. That is a HUGE deck and I can personally attest to the annual upkeep of wooden decks; they have to be stained and/or sealed each year or the wood breaks down from the inside out. I know some people love their decks and they are nice, but the upkeep isn't worth it to me. In our last house at least half of a very large yard was a multilevel deck and I ripped it out, created a small deck with composite material, laid down sod, and created a vegetable garden. I loved that back yard but we had to move. 😔 My house now, which we've had for twelve years with no plans to ever move again, has a decent size deck and it is quite a bit of work to maintain properly. My husband had to do some massive structural repairs a few years ago because of prior owners' neglect. I'd take a slab of concrete I can sweep and hose off any day. I don't mean to sound like I'm complaining or ungrateful for what I have, because I really love our home and it's location, surrounded by a lot of space, trees, and wildlife, in the Colorado foothills. I have a view of the mountains from my family room and the deck. My point is, though, that the Browns don't seem like the type that will be brushing and rolling on sealants every spring. They seem to be ignorant or plain just don't give a damn about really important things. That house will be an incredible amount of work between cleaning, deck maintenance, keeping those windows clean, cutting the trees closest to the house down (I find it hard to believe that the inspection didn't mention this and many places won't lend the money until something like that is fixed), the furnishings will be an astronomical expense, heating/electric/water expenses will be high, there are bugs and termite infestation possibilities in that locale, the larger wildlife (bears, mountain lions) with which they may encounter, and on and on. Like the Prairie Plague Plots--how did it not occur to them the phenomenal costs of getting water and power out there even before any constructural work could proceed? That walk in closet is large, but as you pointed out, what's with the door exiting to the outside? I guess it might be because of fire codes and needing so many exits. But honestly, a walk in and out closet is in perfect keeping of that strangely built home bought by the strangely built Browns. The land and views are lovely, though.

I think they look great together. And the way he looks at her (let's just skip by the 'grade A snack' comment) is sweet. She should be off limits. I applaud the boys for keeping fairly low profiles.

Yeah, I agree. I don't like the style and paint colours but that's all cosmetic and can eventually be changed. But am I the only one who thought all the rooms were strange--as in, they all are misshapen? It just seems like there is no anchor point in any room.

Okay, THAT was so fucking funny. @Mahamid Frauded Me captured the ridiculous voice of Mariah so well I TOTALLY bought it. And the award for the most excellent of parody goes to the one, the only, @Mahamid Frauded Me 👏👏👏🥇

Meh, they're all one happy family, right? 🙄 Thank you for the cynicaljinx link. She is one of us--I love her posts.

Let's unpack this, shall we? -she hasn't even been in school for two weeks but is already 'exhausted' -she does 'random yoga poses' at bus stops -she 'finds nearby eateries that will comp [her] AND has free WiFi' -because of being 'in flux shit is just pouring out of [her] at a rapid pace'. Really, Mariah? Are we talking literal shit or proverbial shit? WTeverlivingF -a lot is happening in her 'little self absorbed brain' but all's good--it's her 'jam' -she enjoyed a matcha AND a piña colada (spelling both drinks wrong, btw) and then 'got caught in the rain' (Jimmy Buffet, anyone?) -Here's where it gets interesting: the rainwater was refreshing and 'counted toward [her] weekly shower'. Again, WTeverlivingF?! Your weekly shower? Your WEEKLY shower. And given that it 'counted towards' said weekly shower, did this weekly shower actually require follow up shower-like activities, or did you just call it good for the week? Does it only count as a completed weekly shower if you shampoo your hair? -she realises how much 'space water takes in our bodies' and she needs to 'find a way to harvest that and share it with the world one droplet at a time' -her 'plant babies who passed the ESA certification love its nourishment' I'm guessing by nourishment she means those harvested droplets of Mariah body water falling from heaven. Now, after all of that I'm off to take a shower--in my shower, not the rain--so it mightn't be as nourishing as harvested droplets of Mariah body water falling from heaven. And just to be clear, my shower counts towards my DAILY shower; in fact, it won't actually 'count towards' my DAILY shower--it will actually BE my daily shower. 'Cause I wash my hair, yo.

I SO want to see this--if I pay your hotel and airfare to Chicago can we make this bruise cruise happen? Pretty, pretty, pretty please? We can record it, post it here for all our snark friends, and go viral.

This might be my favourite sentence of all the Brown Snark sentences.

I find it so Mykeltip that she said she "needs more coffee to be honest but can't have that yet" (parse that out for me...so she already had coffee but needs more and can't have more? Yet? Why? Huh!?), but wearing her "Mitzi" is a fine substitute. I should've read all the replies before I posted. You expressed the wtf way better and more succinctly than I.

I think this is a social media thing. My youngest does funny faces like this in her TikTok videos and it's cute.....because she's 12, not a grown woman. It makes me wonder every time we see these if they actually are seeing what we see--and then decide, 'ima just post this cuz I'm adorable!' Can they really think that? Maddie posted a blurry picture of Axel--why? Why THAT picture? We no longer are limited to 36 pictures that we don't get to see until we pick up the prints from she shop only to find them mostly blurry and cousin Jed's head is cut off in every picture (#showingmyage). She could take another picture. What's baffling is their schtick is the whole social media driven 'businesswoman' or 'influencer' thing and yet not one of them can take a basic, decent picture. How hard would it be to, I don't know, Google 'how to take good Insta pics'? Hell, I've never googled that but I can look at a series of pics, select the best one, and crop it to focus on the person/subject. Or when they post food pics and it's hideously arranged, unbalanced, not symmetrical, on chipped plates, looking like dog vomit. I just can't wrap my head around their posts, what with the crummy pictures, misspelled words, grammatically incorrect sentences, bizarre logic (like I can't have more coffee ?yet? but hey, this shirt with omg pockets! pockets, I say, makes everything okay because.... why? Does the shirt produce caffeine? Does it smell of coffee, wake you up? What? What in God's name does a shirt have to do with I-had-some-coffee-but-can't-have-more-?yet?) So. Many. Questions.

You are so much better at this that I--Gyneger, Clitalia..... 😂 😂 😂 I probably should be heading to confession myself, Twopper 😉 In all seriousness though, we were very thoughtful when choosing our kids' names so as not to burden them with bizarre spellings, probable mispronunciations, or names that lend themselves to easy teasing. Our girls always get complimented that their names are pretty.

So, we have: -Robyn's Areola -Maddie's Evaginalyn Next up: Penissa, Morgasm, Lydilabia, etc. I'll show myself out.....

I read the comment last night and was still bothered by it tonight. I've never push my beliefs upon others nor do I believe myself without fault--I have many faults. I have no issue with people whose beliefs differ from my own and I don't much care what people wear (or don't wear! 😂). I took exception to the "dopey Bible look" mostly. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I'm going to bed, too, Kyanight.... it doesn't really matter. I'll just probably take a break from these boards for awhile.

Thank you for your response. I was genuinely asking because I really didn't/don't think of someone with Aspergers as completely unable to function independently. I really look forward to seeing Dayton coming into his own because, as you mentioned, those on the spectrum are usually highly intelligent. He seems like a nice kid.

What exactly is "that dopey, Bible brain look to the face"? Sincerely, A devout Catholic who wears drab (all black) modest clothing

Can someone please help me out, here? We all seem pretty certain that the 'Leavingk Las Vegas' is likely due to incredible lack of foresight and planning for the long term, an indiscernible process of decision making, and general idiocy finances and that Flagstaff was chosen because angels/trees/singingk Day-uhn is attendingk college there. My question is this: is Day-uhn so disabled that he still requires his mother's constant supervision and such that the inept caveman overlord must include a second en-suite setup in the Mountain View McMansion Monstrosity of Prairie Dog Plague for Day-uhn to live the rest of his days? I think I remember him as being on the autism spectrum, but there are many on the spectrum who live independently, attend school, and hold down jobs. Is Robyn pathologically overprotective and controlling or is Day-uhn truly incapable of independent or semi-Independent living? I adore my (now tween/early teen) children and on occasion reminisce about when they were little, but I have always maintained that one of the most important aspects of parenting is teaching them to individuate and learn how to independently take care of themselves. I have always tried to teach them how to make wise decisions and guided them through age appropriate independence. Right now, as they navigate their lives, they have my husband and I to guide them and offer safety nets as they figure things out. I won't be around forever to make decisions for my kids, and Robyn won't always be there for her kids. The fact that many children and four households are being uprooted, the high schoolers' achievements and excellent opportunities have been denied, the kids' pain and struggle have been dismissed and even ridiculed, these people irresponsibly purchased undeveloped land without considering all that is involved (water, sewer, electricity, road construction), they bought land and a house before selling the four Vegas homes, they are renting three home of varying sizes and locations, they are effectively ensuring financial ruin, and by abandoning the place the majority of the kids have spent their formative years, Kody's desire to have all the kids and grandchildren around perpetually is actually accomplishing the opposite --I hope the cost is worth it just to be close to one kid..... who is an adult in college.

Yeah.... to quote Christine: this ridiculous clusterfuck of a house/condo/apartment/lair/egomaniacal delusion of a single structure is "NEVER, period, GOING, period, TO, period, HAPPEN, exclamation point." I'm so glad she verbalised the punctuation 🙄 I cannot believe a group of people can be so incredibly ignorant and shortsighted as to not consider how many obstacles that will hinder, delay, or altogether shut down such a building plan. I have always lived within communities and have never had a septic system--you guys have educated me a bit on the ridiculousness of having a nineteen bed twelve bath four laundry room structure on a septic system and access to water. Kody's idea is bullshit and he'll be up to his neck in literal shit if they attempt this. My beloved dad, may he rest in peace (I still miss him every single day even though he died over ten years ago), was an electrician and wired a gazillion homes, maintained the state capital's network of buildings, and helped fix the horrible baggage system mess at Denver International Airport. He was a talented and hardworking man full of wisdom and humour (sorry, I know I'm way off topic) and I would LOVE to have been able to talk to him about the expense, feasibility, and complexity that Kody's structure would entail. And yes, I keep calling it a structure because I can conceive of no possible resale value in such a monstrosity of ego. I suspect surrounding neighbors would fight like hell to petition that the zoning requirements not change to allow this....thing. Everything Kody does is about ego. If he hadn't stumbled on polygamy he would've be a church leader commanding attention, or some other way to enable him to feel like a king. He has absolutely NO leadership ability and while some of his wives might 'keep sweet', it's abundantly clear his older kids (especially the boys) think he's a joke. I know people generally can't stand Meri, but I do not blame her a bit for her "affair" of the heart. Kody legally divorced her after decades and while she was incredibly naïve and illogical that a wealthy man online loved her, I can see absolutely why she'd be vulnerable to such a thing. This whole "she cheated" and "she needs to take responsibility and admit her wrongdoing" is bullshit (forgive me, I'm a psychologist and 'have' to be empathetic 😂). She was divorced, neglected, rejected by her husband, treated with disdain by her only daughter, and just wanted to be valued and loved. I dearly hope she finds a man who will love her and only her, that her B&B is successful, and that she continues to grow and be successful ON HER OWN, as she said. She has many faults, I agree, but her situation is soul crushing. I've no doubt that she was bullied into or contractionly obligated to react to the catfish 'scandal' in the manner she has in public. Maybe Kody will build his monstrosity and Meri will never move in, none of the older kids and the grandchildren ever visit, and 75% of the building is empty and useless. Meri finds a good man, marries him, and he has a bunch of kids who adore her. I was so sad watching Mariah tell her 'we don't want you helping us move'. I thought Meri handled the heartbreak well in the moment. Ugh. These people. YOU people, however, are good for my soul. Again going off topic (sorry moderators, it won't happen again...in this comment anyway) I have been fighting cancer for two decades, am in constant pain and am sick, watched my dad die from the same cancer--it's genetic and my kids have it, also 😔, my husband is a commissioned law enforcement officer and it's scary and stressful, I'm a neat freak but my house is currently a disaster from six plus years of me not being well enough to do even basic cleaning and maintenance, I'm isolated and have no friends or acquaintances from whom I can ask for help. I do not say all this for pity and I am incredibly blessed with a phenomenal husband (Kody should come visit and see a REAL man and leader and I guarantee we have way more, er, marital relations than Kody who has four 'wives'), wonderful children, I had an amazing father, I live in a beautiful area with mountains and wildlife, I hit the jackpot just being born in the US and have had access to medical care that literally has and continues to keep me alive--I do not feel sorry for myself most of the time and am generally positive and upbeat. But I also struggle continuously and have some intense panic attacks, fear, hopeless moments, and insomnia. I come to these boards, the Sisterwives specifically, and your comments and assessments never fail to lift my spirits. You all are my kind of people and your humour, wit, and insight into the Brown Idiocies rarely fail to help me get through the rough moments. So I offer a BIG THANK YOU for your amazing and snarky comments. You all are my people. 💜💜💜

Logan's adult responsibilities, while being a child, enrage me. I think the Brown weddings are boring and Aspen was difficult to watch (and hear). Logan and Michelle's wedding would be the only one of interest for me because they seem to be mutually in love and committed to each other. Part of me wants them to change their minds about not having kids. Logan would kick ass as a father and show Kody how a REAL MAN does marriage and fatherhood. But Logan and Michelle have my respect, whatever path they take. Unfortunately, I think Aspen will raise her kids much like her mother, unless Mitch turns out to be a wholly different type of man than Kody. Jury's still out on Mitch; we haven't seen much of him. He does seem underwhelmed by the whole TLC production and as someone above mentioned, merely tolerating the Brown Clowns.