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It appears that "Robyn Brown Sisterwife #4" on Facebook is now scrubbed entirely, except for a post made about an hour ago, wishing Meri and Kody a happy silver wedding anniversary. Is it just me? Anyone else still accessing that page, or is Robyn simply revising history as per usual?

I broke down and watched this morning, though not the all Christine ep yet, because nausea and disgust ensued. Hate-watching is such a weird compulsion. Christine's TH moments, filmed AFTER Galveston, were far more emotionally true than her smiley capitulation at the beach. Kody is simply a selfish dick, and she is miserable in her understanding of how completely he doesn't get it. Being on tv has temporarily relieved them from acute financial struggles, but one of the insidious costs is that any of them wanting to split from Kody know that their most personal battle will be made food for mass entertainment. After seeing the teaser for next week, I feel positive that David Jessop has already relinquished his parental rights, and it makes me sick. Robyn's little breakdown and subsequent TH to say that she just realized the lasting impact this would all have on Jessop and his family is either FU internets playacting, or a perfect example of how utterly selfish and unthinking she actually is. "I don't want to go to war." WTF?! Sure you do, Robyn! You sat right next to your man while he said it, and you didn't make a peep. This selfish bitch wants to erase her children's father as though he never existed, but simutaneously seem like she's a harmless little lamb in the process.

Joshie in the spidie hole--what a great visual. I'd like to see that footage: Josh staggering into the daylight looking like Tom Hanks in Castaway. Nope. In fact it will only make the leg-humping faithful love him all the more.

Are we sure this wasn't Famy doing pirate day at Dunkin Donuts? ;)

That Meri could be so deeply hornswaggled this way points to a lot of essential naivete about the real world. There are a lot of things about her that I find irritating, but I feel sorry for her for having this seriously disturbed person intrude on her life, and for no better reason than to publicly shame and humiliate her. It's awful. Has there been even a hint of conversation about Meri and college? THAT is what she needs to do. Embrace her liberty. Let the TLC money roll in, bank as much as possible, work like a dog on getting a college education, then get a decent job and GO.

Aaaagh! That is so awful. And GREAT. Bwahahaha!

Agreed. Jill and Jessa absolutely CANNOT be plucked out of that stew of bullshit and featured as though they aren't part of CLAN DUGGAR. This isn't about their molestation. It's about the way the apple doesn't fall far from the family tree. It's about how they have been raised to be self-righteous, smug, bigots who use their pseudo-fame to spread a message of condemnation and dim-wittery. If this happens, it is just the same old bullshit with a fresh coat of paint. Sure...let's bring back honey boo boo's sisters, too.

Sisterhood of the Traveling Cold Sore. Good times!

She could take a page from Christine Brown and use Aspyn, Mykelti, Paedon, Gwendlyn, Ysabel, or Truely.

Professionally? I'd love to know what that translates to from Duggar-speak. Trying to imagine hiring her to do a "professional" tile job, only to see her crawling around in a skirt and flip-flops with her hair hanging in the grout.

I love that she tells them to their faces that she's basically fed up with years of them being a public embarrassment. No end in sight for THAT, Janelle.

Hey, whose jurisdiction is mirror-cleaning in her house? Ick.

What...no Poisonwood Bible?? But...it has the word BIBLE! Oh, if only...

Gosh, good thing she took the info down. Because once you change something on the internet, the internet gets amnesia. Yay!

When I saw that they were chummy with that slimeball, I had the same thought. Collier didn't start out plyg, either. I will never forget his actual wife describing the pain she lived with when he started his campaign for having a second woman in his bed. Maddie, if your guy start wishing for two of "you" (one to make him cookies and one to cuddle on the couch), RUN. Run like your ass is on fire and your hair is catching.

Heck no--that may be the #1 SW snarkers' fantasy. Like I posted on CJ's blog: Robyn is terribly smug about the glorious sacrifices plyg wives make, due to their tremendous love for one another. But let's get real: her only experience as a sister wife is being the new toy. By all accounts and from everything I've seen, the absolute toughest part of plural marriage for the women is when your man displaces you with the next woman in line. Robyn has been an only wife (with Jessop), and the new toy wife (with Kody). If she really wants to roll around in the glories of polygamy, she should urge Kody to find a hot 23-year-old. Then she'll have a firsthand chance to show us how self-sacrificing sisterwives are. It should all make her feel wonderfully warm and fuzzy.

Guess Mr. Holy Pants forgot Matthew 6:2-4--So when you give to the poor, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be honored by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full. But when you give to the poor, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving will be in secret; and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.

I think it was a grand gesture of martyrdom calculated to keep her relevant to Kody--same reason she spearheaded helping Robyn in as 5th wife. The irony, of course, is that her grand gestures backfire and make her less valuable and less important, and Kody's appreciation is perfunctory at best. IIRC, that life-risking miscarriage happened before she got pregnant with Truely--I remember hearing Janelle expressing that she was very surprised when Christine got pregnant again after such a close call.

IMO, calling him an "uncle by marriage" is stretching it a little. He's the sibling of the woman her uncle married, so more like "uncle-in-law by marriage," and their kids would not be Kody's cousins. Is it too close to family for my comfort level? Yeah, probably (if I imagine my stepdaughter marrying her uncle's brother-in-law, there's a bit of a squick factor). Of course, in Kody World it's just your everyday sort of mildly creepy connection.

This is an odd fb page. Granted, I didn't spend too much time looking, but what do the letters TMI stand for? Why did they capitalize the word "Reality" in that sentence? Do you think Janelle knew about and okayed that particular bit of lackluster promotion? One positive: at least there is a trace of evidence that one adult member of this herd is making some attempt to have a marketable-ish skill for when the camera crew packs up for good. (Not that the real estate market in Vegas is anything to hang your hat on...)

I agree. As many of us know first-hand, at Maddie's age it's frighteningly easy to tell yourself you'll go back to school "soon," only to have the realities of life make that a more and more complicated choice.

I have one word about Nathan Collier. EEEEWWWWWW.

A couple of days ago I watched the tell-nothing from the end of last season, finally. After they watched part of the...bum-bum-BUUUUM!!--divorce episode, Sobbyn launched into her bullshit about how Meri's sacrifice was the kind of thing that someone in a monogamous relationship can't possibly understand. I've been watching these asshats from the start, and still I thought the top of my head would blow off. Robyn: Women in monogamous relationships DON'T HAVE TO EXPERIENCE THAT SORT OF SACRIFICE because they don't have to share their husband with three other women in the first place!! LOL...it's so utterly, laughably ludicrous. No, I will never experience watching the wife of the man I sleep with (and make babies with and call my "husband") signing divorce papers as a sacrifice for me. That's because I am ALREADY THE WIFE. My husband and his first wife had a divorce that was none of my business, and it didn't happen because his first wife wanted to show how much she loved him and how willing she was to lay down and let the emotional bus run her over. We monogamous wives simply don't put up with that sort of emotional bullshit. But that's something you polygamous women will never be able to fully understand.

My theory is that Meri went to this extreme for exactly the same reason she helped orchestrate the Robyn/Kody hookup: it is ingrained in her from being raised in polygamy that the way to get the attention you crave from your man is to make yourself the most specialist bestest wife of all, and the bigger a martyr you can make yourself, the greater the chance your husband will look at you with big googly lover eyes. I don't think she hooked up with Robyn to stick it to Janelle and Christine, I just think they were inconsequential collateral damage. With Mariah gone and no more Kody babies in Meri's future, she looked around at where Kody's interest lay, and instinct kicked in: Kody really loves Robyn and he wants to claim her kids as HIS; if I pull off this huge sacrifice, he'll remember that I'm the very best wife of all. *cue melodramatic music The trouble is, of course, that Kody takes everything as his due. Every emotional arrow they take on behalf of "this lifestyle" is just a ho-hum day-in-the-life for Kody. They think if they hold out their bleeding hearts in their hands they win brownie points with him, but their pain really means no more to him than if they described a stubbed toe.

Despite my previous tongue-in-cheek remark about mild-mannered accountants and embezzlement, I don't think Derrick and and Jill are intentionally mismanaging funds. I think they are scraping up against the harsh reality that when you live on monies acquired by direct solicitation, those who donated are going to expect a certain level of transparency and accountability. I have a hunch that's coming as a bit of a surprise to them. The Duggars always framed their fame-whoring as a "ministry," so Jill spent a goodly chunk of her growing-up years with large amounts of material goods, world travel, and cash flowing in for no other reason than just getting in front of a camera. For years, the equation has been "I'm a Duggar, I'm super special because God, therefore the money magically appears and how I use it is no one's beeswax. Long hair, baby, pious-smile big for the camera!" Derrick ought to know better, but he jumped aboard the train wreck just soon enough to get a taste of the TLC pie and start liking it (ha...how's that for a mixed metaphor?) No way do I think all the people pubically demanding to know about the Dillard's expenses are actual donors. But the situation has made the question gain traction, and has probably gotten the attention of some actual donors, and that's okay. There are enough grinning monkeys living high off the hog on the "love offerings" of the gullible. Maybe there is still time for the Dillards to choose differently. Not that I'm holding my breath.