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Paedon has said that the one thing he gives Robyn credit for is blowing the whistle on Meri's mistreatment of the kids, and that by doing so she "may have saved some lives." So I don't know what the hell was going on, but I suspect that the adult kids broke their silence sometime recently about stuff that had gone on in the past, perhaps in tandem with encouraging Christine to get the hell out. A lot of truth can be spilled once people get going sharing stories. Then again, it's Paedon, so who knows.

I personally found it funny that they used Kody to promote Christine's second marriage.

I forgive Christine's gushing not just because she clearly is ecstatic, but because she's probably being prompted endlessly to talk about what's going on, and that's foremost on her mind. What other content did we have? More Tony and Mykelti? Kudos to Aspyn and Ysabel for some nice contributions. I like that David has a large family and that the two families have had extensive contact and approve. That makes me feel better about the speed at which they moved. Looks like he's been single a while and didn't have a particularly happy marriage, and for Christine it's effectively the same. No wonder they wanted to get on with it.

I saw the heavy hand of production every time Whitney brought it up - seemed clearly to be expected of her even past the point of it making any kind of sense. Her heart wasn't in it - she's no actress. Heather freaking out was the interesting part. All I can think is that she saw the heavy hand of production coming for her and freaked. Or else knew what a fight with Whitney over this might lead to being revealed, and wanted to avoid that at all costs. Whatever it is. She seemed genuinely afraid, not just fed up - and she's also no actress.

I think we can all agree that no way in HELL would Sandy approach ACTUAL non-show yacht guests and harangue them to get off their butts. I would love if some future non-show guest of hers feels the need to state up front on day 1 that they're going to rest, relax, drink, nap, and enjoy the beautiful views and they don't want any pep talks. (Can you imagine the boon that would be to staff? Keep an eye on our beverage consumption, give us occasional snacks, otherwise don't hover, dinner at 8 is fine, we'll probably sit outside and enjoy a nice conversation after dinner, but nobody has to wait on us after 10.) I do get it - they weren't providing anything worth filming, and that's a serious problem. But it's also her problem that having to dance for the production company will affect how future clients react to having her as their captain.

It's pretty common in the nicer restaurants a typical charter cruise guest would frequent. It's just uncured bacon in blocks rather than strips. Often served with a sweet glaze. Maybe the interior is responsible for the guest accessed areas (and Captain coddling), and the deck crew is responsible for the "boat." After picking up after some of these monsters, I can only imagine if the interior had to clean up after their coworkers as well. I always enjoy learning after the season how well the chefs cooked for the crew. It seems to range from barely acceptable/forage for yourself to pretty upscale food. Jack seems like he could do some good family style meals without stressing too much.

I think he was raised/came to believe he was the center of the universe, the funniest person in the room, an outrageous character whose brilliance is unmistakable to all. And not only did somebody he not respect BEAT him, the OTHER guy he didn't respect TIED him.

Marcellas on Big Brother did that waaay back when - had a veto to secure his own safety but opted not to use it because he was SO certain he was safe. You young'uns can guess how that worked out for him. It seems like the obvious response to "google me" is "if people have to google you to know who you are, why bother?" I don't know who Bobby is or what he does, but his "You LAUGHED AT THE WRONG JOKES!" is a great reality show line - Mr. Arch Villain suddenly transformed into a four year old angry that grownups are ruining something he worked hard on.

I felt bad for Robyn's daughters. Their couch talks seem like hostage videos, and you just know Robyn and Kody are standing behind the camera. I hope that in the time between when these scenes were shot and today the siblings who missed them will reach out at school or elsewhere and embrace them and they can have relationships behind Robyn and Kody's back. Of all the wives, she's the one who's literally out hundreds of thousands of dollars (well, not sure how much her retirement was, but she also turned over a house to the family back in Utah pre-show, too, did she not?). Robyn came in with debt that they paid off and is living in a mansion, while Janelle's left with nothing except her name on a lot that will probably be foreclosed on. She needs to stay bitter and get her money!

I hope she doesn't get surgery and that she meets somebody who vibes with her weirdness and doesn't want yet another Jawline 3/Eyelift 2/Lip filler 5 from the California plastic surgery options chart. This may entail moving to the East Coast. I once had dinner with a woman who was moving out of Arizona because her sons were getting to middle school age and all the girls in town were getting nose and boob jobs at 16 and their moms were all completely overhauled and she thought they already were developing warped views of what female humans actually look like. Just from watching reality tv I feel like I'm adjusting to the manufactured "look" - occasionally I see a picture of someone I once thought was grotesque and find myself thinking they're not that bad...

She also was simultaneously doing a talk show the last few years (I think it's over now). She strikes me as somebody who constantly is working to stay working - definitely not sit back and rake in the HW cash (though she obviously will do that too!) We don't know their living situation, but it's also possible that they're just teenage guys, they're at school/extracurricular stuff 10 hours a day, sleeping 9 hours a day, playing video games 5 hours a day, and are annoyed when mom isn't waiting patiently in the next room to make them snacks when they deign to seek her company. Doesn't make anybody bad, just tunnelvisioned. I definitely agree that she could handle her kids' on air time better - film more lighthearted stuff than the deep discussions. But maybe she does and they don't air it. I also think it's pretty typical of older teen boys to want to try out other living situations and if Dad appears to be offering a more lax one (or even just a change in venue), they'll go for it.

He seems eager to be a regular - I think they worked up this act of Crazy Boss/Patient Butler together. (House Manager is the modern term for butler - they handle household logistics. Lots of overlap with personal assistant, but more likely to actually have formal training in function planning, etc)

They're Jewish and it's pretty strongly discouraged in most traditions - perhaps even more strongly in Mexico? His reaction seemed genuine, like Kyle knew it would be a problem and intentionally revealed something they would have no way to know about otherwise. And that even if they're not in a good place, that was below the belt.

Christine has always struck me as being pretty savvy when it comes to interpersonal relations (Kody aside). Maybe it comes with being in enormous families from childhood, but she's observed a LOT of human behavior up close and personal, and if there's one thing you learn once you've seen it play out more than once is the power of playing the long game. Many divorced parents inwardly seethe at their kid's hero worship of an absent, neglectful parent (or fourth mother), but know saying anything is counterproductive. Sometimes you have to wait these things out until the kid is an adult and gains perspective about the relative merits of each person and their behavior over time. Once they start witnessing certain behaviors as an adult, they revisit the echoes from their childhood and renegotiate everybody's role.

She knew they need to film. The anniversary gave her an excuse to film with Kody and without Robyn and maybe have a more candid discussion in the restaurant itself without the tape rolling. I imagine opportunities to speak with Kody without Robyn present are pretty rare. We never really did zoom as a family, but I remember sitting in cars two spaces apart, rolling down the windows and chatting from there (with masks on). Pulling into a driveway and chatting to someone on the lawn (with masks on). Dropping groceries at my mom's condo door and standing 20 feet away to chat when she opened her door. People who wanted to see each other definitely saw each other!

I thought the feet on the ground thing was to allay her fears of falling - "see? You can catch yourself! Look how easily your foot is firmly on the ground! You're in control!" Agree with the poster upthread that knee/elbow pads would also have helped. I understood where Christine meant by "you're going to fall, everybody falls!" but this is why you generally learn when you're 6 or 7 because the older you get, the scarier falling gets. At 7 you're lighter, lower to the ground, and usually scraped up from something or other (at least if you play outdoors, which perhaps she never did). At puberty? Totally different sets of fears.

Kody will be working three shifts at McDonalds before she gets a job, and she'll complain about having to pick him up because they only have one car and it's not like she can be home all day without one.

They've probably only been making minimum payments Since Robyn got comfortable in her mansion, and now that Christine (and possibly Janelle and even Meri) are off the deeds, that just means Kody and Robyn are the ones that the bank will take it back from. Janelle as much as said that she hopes he doesn't lose it (with the wry expression of someone who knows precisely what is going to happen). I know they had a habit in the family of trading off bankruptcies one adult at a time, which worked when you had four adults, then five. When Kody and Robyn go kaput financially they're not going to be able to fall back on that method... unless that's what they're keeping her adult kids around for. Doesn't work unless they're working, though.

I think after being the breadwinner she was not going to work and kick money into the family pot ON TOP of doing the show when the other wives weren't. I think Meri, smartly, banked all her MLM scam money in her own name. But as far as Janelle was concerned, it was the largest and steadiest paycheck they'd seen and enough to meet her needs, so earning more and splitting it 87 ways wasn't worth it. She definitely had an uncharacteristic scowl on, which I suspect came from the camera coming out to play happy families for the show. I think they did keto. I remember some insta post way back about loving the no carb lifestyle and showing something delicious they were eating. But then as the weight loss really began to show, there were MLM ads implying that was what caused the weight loss. But I'm going with keto. I enjoy the flashback scenes. Now that I'm used to the "kids" being "adults" it's fascinating to see them as grade schoolers, and try to catch the dynamics. Especially since first time around I could never tell all the blonde girls apart.

I know they're trying to paint the "Meri has a great relationship with the kids" picture, but it seems like she's the nice lady who gives good presents and brings rice krispie treats the three times a year they see her type relationship. They had to ask if she had a dog. Ariella walked up to her and hugged her while staring straight into the camera. They don't seem awkward with her, but this is not a relationship that has been fostered in recent years. She's not the extra mother/close auntie that we're being sold on. Which is not to say that from HER end they're not relationships that she wants to maintain. Having gone wrong with so many of the older kids, she may indeed have felt warmer/mushier with the tenders and her behavior reflects that. Most of us know people who are far warmer grandparents than they were parents, and that would not be unexpected in this situation. Which makes it sadder that their parents don't truly want her in their lives enough to actually include her on an ongoing (nonfilmed) basis.

Garrison/Robert did say he misses Dayton/David. I like to imagine they reconnect and Kody and Robyn find out that they're hanging out together. As for Leon, having withstood years of online abuse for being a selfish (we now know struggling) teen, I can imagine that the thought of opening themselves to genuine targeting by the super malicious anti-trans mob in addition to judgmental SW fans is NOT an attractive proposition. It creates an interesting conundrum - they won't want to be deadnamed, but casual viewers won't know who Leon is. So the easy solution is that Leon just doesn't come up in conversation, but then that creates more "where's Meri's kid?" questions.

I think last week or the week before they acknowledged a fairly big jump (6 months?) so maybe we'll get another one of those.

I remember it being used a lot in the "old days" of the 70s when referring to children of a tender age needing to stay with their mother in custody issues. I think the dawning realization was that they weren't going to move into "Sister Wives: New and Improved Without Christine" but instead "Sister Wives: One Down, Two to go" I don't blame her for that. I don't know anybody with a functional relationship who would withhold that kind of bombshell before their partner was about to appear on national television reacting to it. And obviously Meri knew she would, hence making her squirm by delaying saying it.

Yup. Scene with Meri, Kodi and Robyn We're expected to believe that: 1) Robyn hasn't already filled Kody in on precisely what Meri's about to say; 2) Meri isn't toying with Robyn knowing they all know what is going to be discussed but also knowing Robyn can't adlib worth a damn, so it's fun to make it awkward for her by acting coy. They all have no illusion that Kody will give a damn about Meri leaving, but the scene has to make some kind of sense for the storyline playing out, which is that Meri continues to hold on for more than just the show paycheck, and that Robyn wants to hold the family together. Kody's so disengaged from Christine's exit and the prospect of Janelle following her that he doesn't even try to fake it. In the moment he plays along with the barndominium proposal. but in the talking heads he's back to being candid. When he talks about disappointing Robyn, or losing Robyn's respect, it's that Robyn knows she's the villain in the story, and everything he does to chase the other women off looks like confirmation of what they're trying to deny. He's making her look bad by not trying. He's making her look bad by not keeping these women in line. He's making her look bad by not even TRYING in front of the camera to pretend that Meri has a shot, or calling his damn daughter on her birthday to keep Janelle from leaving and taking the franchise with her. They literally have nothing to film except with Meri. Based on the one and done earring caper, production clearly shut them down on expanding coverage of Little Tenders on the Prairie, which means if he doesn't meet with Meri or take Janelle to dinner, what's going to be aired? Christine decorating her new home? Kudos to Meri for making clear that Robyn for all her tearful "don't leave me!"s doesn't call or contact her. Seemingly ever. Janelle and Christine have each other and multiple children with whom to film. Meri got some footage with her exterminator buddy. It's clear who holds the power moving forward into the final season(s)/new followup series. And it's not Kody and Robyn. I did notice they acknowledged a 6 month time jump this week, so if they do it again we may edge closer to real time (reality show version).

Once you are "on" to a narcissist, it's actually quite satisfying to just compose your face and watch them perform their act, seeing it for just that, instead of reacting to it as if it were genuine as you had in the past. They're predictable and entirely accustomed to their tantrums triggering specific behaviors (mostly appeasement), and not giving them the accustomed response makes them CRAZY. It doesn't compute in their brains, because the tactic is supposed to work, and when it doesn't, they flail. And you just offer a sympathetic face and softly repeat the position you're sticking to, as if it's unfortunate, but that's just the way things are. Christine has mastered it, and you can see the freedom in letting him rant. She's not acting like she doesn't care - she really doesn't, and what used to feel oppressive now has as much power as waiting out a four year old who is screaming because he wants apple juice not orange. Less, because the four year old has an excuse, being 4.