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1 hour ago, gunderda said:
But why does Maddie need to have that pressure of being responsible for her brother?
I keep seeing this thrown around as the cure for this problem. She had a newborn, taking on the responsibilities of a teen is a lot of pressure. I don't agree with this move at all, but I am glad Maddie didn't take on this job. Caleb taking a job in NC has nothing to do with this. He may have just had a great opportunity and jumped on it. Home Depot is a great place to work, they have lots of opportunity for growth.
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11 hours ago, Jeanne222 said:
If Dayton is special needs what kind of college will be be attending?
Kids can attend college even with special needs. They may need more support, but they can attend if they want to.
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Sorry if this has been brought up before. I was poking around on Strive with Janelle website and this is being offered. An affordable activity tracker, I can get with that. Except it is on the wrist upside down, has zero description of what it tracks or if there is an app that it comes with. This is not great marketing for a product that admittedly I'd pay for, because I am cheap AF. Make me want this product.
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1 hour ago, Gothish520 said:
Haha, yep, she made a crack about how her house was too big for her, in a bit of a mocking way, in obvious reference to all the criticism she gets about her McMansion.
The thing about her McMansion is that it was built in a development. There are rules about a house size being built. It would have looked very odd to have 3 houses that were big and a tiny house at the end of the cul de sac. If that is where they decided to live, they had to go with the rules.
Whether or not they made a sound decision building there is another conversation.
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On 2/26/2019 at 12:35 PM, Sandy W said:
I totally missed Meri's remark about the size of her potential house. Darn!
I can see Christine's point about 4 bedrooms. She still has Truely. Gwendlyn, Ysabel and possibly Paedon at home, plus Annie. Even if she combined Gwen and Ysabel and Annie and Truely, if Paedon is still at home, she would still need 4 bedrooms.
Plus they have family we don't know about. They were getting ready for Thanksgiving in one episode and had 70 people. So 30 of them are local Browns, that is still a lot of people who might need a place to stay.
I'm not of the mind they need a McMansion but they don't need to dig a whole in a cave and make everyone live there.
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12 minutes ago, Tabbygirl521 said:
I really can’t criticize, seeing as how I’m a Universal Life Minister. LOL.
Me too. I've married a few people. I guess I'll be signing up to be a health coach next. You can say you posted with me before I was rich. 😂
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42 minutes ago, Kohola3 said:
But this is one spouse getting his way over the wishes of at least thee other wives, not one like your mother. I think he and Sobbyn have been planning this for a while.
There are two mothers (can't include Meri here) who have different wishes and dreams for their remaining kids being forced into "compromising" (AKA Bending to the Will of the Leader and His Latest Squeeze) all to fit the picture for one person in the group. That's not what I consider compromise. That's what I consider being browbeaten.
I agree completely. I don't think this family is about compromise, it is about Kody and now Robyn.
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6 minutes ago, Tabbygirl521 said:
I was a working mom myself so no dismissiveness here. It just struck me as disingenuous when Janelle got snotty about wanting the privilege of raising her child while ignoring and dismissing Gabe’s evident pain - to which there seemed to me to be an obvious solution or five. She could even have stayed behind with him but oh no, Kody had a shit fit over that.
I think the whole thing is shitty. I would have stayed if it were me. I realize after 20 years, they have just given up their free will.
This show used to be a mildly amusing look into a different lifestyle. Now it is about King Kody and I don't know how much longer I can stay on that train.
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3 minutes ago, Tabbygirl521 said:
That’s true, but I think the point was that she wasn’t the at-home hands-on mom for a lot of the time. So it was puzzling that she was so resistant to letting Gabe live with his sister for awhile.
I think it is a long reach to go from "she worked so she must be ok with them living 5 hours away for 2 years". I can't get onboard with that kind of dismissiveness about a working mom.
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On 2/25/2019 at 6:41 AM, bichonblitz said:
She never raised her own children. Back in Utah she couldn't stand to be a stay at home mom. She had a good job and made all the money for the family while Christine took care of her kids all day. That was back in the earlier days before Sobbyn came in to the picture.
Isn't this the benefit of sister wives? Someone has to work.
Sorry, I get prickly when people say women aren't raising their kids because they go to work. The kids were home with their other mom, not a drug dealer on the street hustling them.
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1 hour ago, Kyanight said:
OH - and did anyone else notice the timing when Christine shut down to everyone? It was when ROBYN came into the family and became the ONLY wife. Right after Truely was born.
I can't imagine having a newborn, the hormonal tidal wave that comes with that and watching a new wife in the mix. No thank you please.
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6 minutes ago, Tabbygirl521 said:
I think they could have found ways to reject the hats they didn’t like without being a-holes about it. I too get a kick out of conflict on these types of shows but I want it to be about the main players, not a new family member who is trying to be gracious and do something nice for them for their daughter’s wedding.
Exactly. Hanna was being gracious and they showed their ass. There is plenty of conflict without this behavior. They were haughty because she chose to walk away from their lifestyle. The religion encourages that thought because they remain faithful and she is the outcast.
I wish they could see 98.999% of the population were standing up and applauding her for living her best life?
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On 2/23/2019 at 7:26 AM, CousinOliver said:
I had no idea parole was that stringent
In my experience, most parole violations aren't because someone knocks off a bank. It's because of things like this. Parole really is a set up to fail system.
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1 hour ago, VedaPierce said:
Not sure how long I would sit around and watch someone 'not having something nice to say, so not saying anything at all'!
I get what you are saying, boring tv sucks. This was not someone that they were just buying a hat from. This will be someone that will interact after the kids get married. Not setting up a good relationship there with mocking her lifestyle, her hats and just being snotty overall.
It was just bad manners all the way around from them. How hard is it to be gracious to someone that is going to be part of your family? Hanna lived a different lifestyle then them, even rejecting their lifestyle all together. Instead of being happy she found her way in life, they had to knock it down to their level of thinking.
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11 hours ago, VedaPierce said:
It seems like she wants to out-polygamy the rest of them
This is very very true. I think she'd be like this in anything she was interested in. Vegan? Best most vegan ever. Runner? Only runs ultra runs. But she is in polygamy so she has to make that her prize. Sit down Robyn, nobody can see around your chin.
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2 minutes ago, Sandy W said:
That's the way I recall it too. It was very early in the introduction to the family that the viewers were made aware of Dayton's special needs.
Kody dismissed the doctor's diagnoses of Dayton as him "just being quirky". You would think that if Robyn were a responsible mother, she would have ensured that a potential step-father had a full understanding of Dayton's needs. Common sense must have eventually prevailed, as Dayton seems to have blossomed into a fine young man, despite Kody.
I don't stand up for Robyn very often, but I saw her as a mother who had been through it with a son that was born with difference. Kody was so dismissive of it. I have a child with special needs and that is how I vet anyone that comes into our lives. The only thing I will say is that religious brainwashing can really do a number on a person. She needed a lifeline and saw that in Kody (for whatever reason).
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5 hours ago, B in Lee said:
I believe that when Robyn joined the fambly, she was already claiming that her son was somewhere in the autism spectrum. We don't know for a fact if he was ever formally, medically diagnosed as such. That "special needs" card sure can come in handy when one needs a bargaining chip during family negotiations, after all.
Robyn talked about the drs appointments and his diagnosis process when he came into the family.
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23 hours ago, Persnickety1 said:
I have Philo and I couldn't possibly love it more.
Great selection of channels (alas no Bravo yet but hopefully in the future), live streaming and a plethora of episodes of all of the shows via their DVR.
I pretty much live my free time on ID Discovery and TLC with an occasional foray over to MTV2 for Teen Mom shenanigans.
Also, Philo has every season and every episode of this train wreck for anyone who wants to walk down the Brown Memory Lane of Delusion.
I love the internet, because I learn of things like this. Thanks for sharing!
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19 minutes ago, smores said:
Given the way that they've treated the daughter with scoliosis, I'm kind of shocked they've actually had him diagnosed and that they are entertaining Robyn being near him for college. It seems more like their way of thinking that they'd have said, Oh here's some essential oils, he'll be fine! and left it at that.
He was diagnosed before he came into the family. Kody and Robyn were on the couch and Kody was like "he's doesn't have Aspergers, he's just quirky". Robyn tried saying they had went to drs and had the testing but Kody just talked over her till she shut up about it.
Godforbid a human doesn't fit into the perfect vision of what Kody sees for humanity.
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2 hours ago, SunnyBeBe said:
You know, for a long time I thought that the ladies would really tear each other apart if they lived in the same house, but, they seemed to really be getting along on that trip. It seemed like they were really getting along, laughing, kidding, and just being pleasant. Where did that come from?
And I wish that Janelle could figure out how to be nice and pleasant lunch partner. I don't see why that's so difficult. Well.....maybe, if Meri is acting all weird, but, there are ways to handle that.
They seem to get along when not around Kody. They don't have to appease him or bow down to him. I think they'd at least be friends if it weren't for him. He is an emotional vampire that sucks the life out of the room. Even when they are on the couch with him, they interact differently with each other.
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4 hours ago, Kyanight said:
I thought the hats were fun, too.
I wonder what's up with Kody's love affair with his hair. It's like he just can't grow up - he has to keep the hair style he had when he was 20. He should just buzz his head, it would be an improvement. He is so clueless as to how awful that man bun makes him look.
His arrested development only becomes more apparent over the years. He is stunted and keeps his wives shifting so he doesn't have to grow up.
One side benefit to all the moving, they never really have to discuss their relationship problems. Between finding the homes, packing unpacking, nobody has time to dig deep into the real issues.
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13 minutes ago, suomi said:
Those hats were hideous. I was confused as to the message delivered by Hannah's one-button-from-disaster cardigan
overnear gouging bra straps: dressed? Undressed? Dressed? Undressed?Her hat looked great on her. She seemed like a lovely person but the sweater/bra combo was distracting.
Christine looks rough this episode to me.
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1 hour ago, Galloway Cave said:
I cannot handle The Perm.
I tuned in late and his talking and head and Perm where looking straight at me.
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On 2/13/2019 at 10:16 AM, Tabbygirl521 said:
Yay, polygamy!! It makes each of us better!
I think this everytime I watch this show. How are any of them better because of this lifestyle?
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S10.E06: Flagstaff Flirtation
in Sister Wives
I don't think there is a difference? I like Christine, but I don't think she's the sharpest crayon in the box.