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Maybe God does look out for these fools. By now that barndo should have burned down with the questionable electrical work and all the candles and fake flowers all over the place. Same with Kaylee's house and the wood railing with flammable Christmas decorations right next to the wood burning stove. I don't know what Dave Ramsey's position on MLMs is, but anyone styling themselves a financial advisor would lose credibility with me immediately if they recommended people get into one. Jon and Kaylee are going broke paying for that junk and she is putting her baby at risk if she is really drinking that stuff while nursing. Seems to me, I've heard that claim before that that pink crap increases your milk production. Maybe it was one of Kaylee's prior posts. And her overuse of commas makes me twitch. Gideon is going to be illiterate with her schooling him.

Dropping in again to comment on this. I was thinking about the fact that the wedding was around the time most colleges have midterms. It's entirely possible that Gwen had an exam coming up. She would have lost quite a lot of study time between travel and wedding activities if she had gone. Then if the exam was the next week, if anything went wrong with travel she wouldn't have made it back in time. I was a chemistry major in college and I can tell you that studying for organic chemistry is quite an undertaking. I needed a lot of space to spread out with my text book, notes, and scratch pad to draw out chemical formulas and do calculations. I even had a set for making models of molecules. I didn't use it very often, but my roommates loved it. I often came back to the room to find various sculptures made with my modeling set.

I agree. Christine doesn't always think before she posts, so it is entirely understandable that she wouldn't realize how that came across. I think it just rubbed me wrong because I really feel for Truley. That child has been through it with both her parents. I hope Mitch can help her learn to ride a bike including making sure she has one that is the right size for her.

Speaking of Mykelti, isn't it time she got over whatever went on with her wedding? Seriously, you have three kids with this guy and somehow live a pretty extravagant lifestyle with no visible means of support. Time to quit picking at Christine about it. And as for Tony, if he really wants to show off his weight loss, looking like an unmade bed is not the way to do it. Tuck in your shirt, dude. Like others, I was really moved by Annie's emotional reaction to being able to be there for Christine's wedding. It must have hurt to know she wasn't welcome at the first one because of their religion. It's good to know that some healing from stuff like that can take place even if it takes a while. I really hope Meri can find the kind of happiness Christine has. I know some don't like her and she has made some bad mistakes along the way, but I can't imagine living through what she did with Kody. It sounds like he was just as abusive to her has he was to Christine. Melting down the wedding ring she gave him and refusing to be intimate with her for years had to have taken a toll. I hope Christine and Janelle come to understand that someday. Meri does seem to have some empathy for what they went through now.

It wasn't in an episode. Someone imported part of a post on Reddit talking about a live Mykelti did where she talked about the story. I find her annoying on the whole, but I did feel bad for her in that situation and I think it informs a lot of her desperate quest for approval now.

I wanted to bring something over here that was being discussed on the Mykelti thread regarding Christine's social media post recognizing Mykelti for being the first of her children to accept David. First full disclaimer. I am thrilled that Christine ditched that ramen headed fool and that she has gotten to experience having a man that loves her and actually wants to marry her. I hope things go well for them and that she isn't just looking at this through rose colored glasses. Christine is pretty immature and doesn't always have the best judgement, but I don't wish her ill. That being said, this post really got on my nerves. First there's Truley. This poor girl has been through it the past few years. First, she was the last person to know about Christine's plans to leave Kody and move to Utah when she was the one who was going to be most affected by those plans. Then she had to find out by overhearing Christine talking about it on the phone. I get that Christine wanted to have Kody there with her to tell Truley, but she should have known what an a$$ Kody is and that he would avoid doing it. She should have stepped up. Was she going to wait until the moving truck arrived? Then she filmed telling Truley that they were leaving in two weeks or something and wanted her to discuss her feelings on camera. Truley did the right thing and walked away and gave her nothing. Then the poor kid has to manage online school while Christine galivants around and finally settles in the townhouse. So, Truley finally gets to go to in-person school and only a few months later, Christine trots out the new love of her life and Truley is just supposed to turn handsprings over him. I can't imagine how uncomfortable that was. As for the other kids, I can imagine they were pretty reserved around David because they wanted to be sure he wasn't some scammer who was going to take advantage of their mother. I would imagine Aspyn particularly wanted to check him out before getting too close to him. This is all normal stuff that any of us would do if we saw our parent rushing into a relationship with someone who was a virtual stranger. If Christine was trying to make amends to Mykelti by that post, it backfired on the rest of her kids. She just needs to stop with the public displays and start figuring out how to live day to day with David.

I do feel bad for Mykelti largely because of the story about the stupid ring she was denied because she supposedly did something at around 12 years old that ruined her purity or something. I never fully understood what that was about, but I am sure it hurt. My problem is that I guarantee you that came from Kody and Christine was just doing his bidding by enforcing it. Christine got all the blame from Mykelti for that I can't imagine being that age and being told you have to earn your way into the family and get some stupid piece of junk jewelry. And to top it off, there was never any indication of how she was supposed to do this. As I understand it, Christine finally went and got Mykelti some sort of ring herself. My issue with Christine's statement is that she threw the rest of her kids under the bus to supposedly make amends to Mykelti and that's not cool. I will expand on that in the Christine thread.

Michelle is shrinking at an alarming rate.

Gee Sobbyn lied again and got found out. What a shock. 😀 So now we have the lie about the personality test that was actually filmed and now the lie about the ring. I really hope Meri is finally giving up magical thinking regarding Kody and has really moved on. There was never anything she could do that would make him love her. I did love in one of the tell all episodes that she said that his being upset was not her problem anymore.

The one thing I felt bad about was Kody's parting shot at Meri. So now the story is that he had to acquire more wives because Meri was supposedly so awful that he couldn't stand to be married to her and couldn't divorce her (until much later apparently), so he just had to have other wives. Sure Jan. I'm sure Meri has heard all this before and just blows it off now. I do think the producers have had it with Kody and Robyn. Everyone else watched the clips they were given even if they were uncomfortable for them. But "I'm not dramatic" Robyn had to act hysterical and run from the room during one clip and refused to watch another because she claimed a panic attack. Then Kody flatly refused to watch the clip of him screaming at Janelle and proceeded to lean forward as a way of getting in the producer's face to rant about how it was all Janelle's fault anyway. Then he refused to watch the clip of the picnic table scene. I think at that point the producer had had enough, because you could see him in the little box actually watching the clip and making faces. Maybe they told him that if he wanted to be paid he had to watch. I have said this before and I will say it again. Why is he still so angry? He is supposedly with the love of his life and has what he wants. Christine is with the love of her life and is positively giddy. Why aren't he and Robyn at the very least content?

Sigh, another anti vaxxer whose kids are going to get all sorts of preventable illnesses and then spread them around. Way to go Mykelti. And I'm all for homeopathic stuff in certain cases, I even got my cat acupuncture once upon a time, but there is a time to get your kids to a real doctor instead of letting them suffer.

That picture of the guys in the hot tub with the TV so close by looks like a horrible accident waiting to happen. And I could have gone a long time without seeing doughy Duggar boys in swim attire.

I like Kodilocks myself. But some time ago on another discussion, my autocorrect suggested Kidney and I went with it.

I'd like to believe Jill wrote that nasty diatribe from Kaylee, but sadly, I may be wrong. It does have a lot of Jill's style like random capitals, silly emojis, and random commas. I certainly hope Kaylee didn't tell the mother who lost her baby that at least she had a spare, so that was OK. That's stunningly insensitive.

The site is working fine now, but much to the consternation of Sister Wives fans, it was down last night.

Yeah, I watched this scene and Robyn's response is one of complete panic because he is about to say something really stupid and damaging. And what made it worse is that he was responding to a guy who is one of his few fans. Kody needs some sort of psychiatric help.

Thanks @General Daysfor all the useful information. When I was in college, I took a class on sects and cults and I remember learning about sealing being for LDS eyes only. Even the room where it's done is off limits to anyone else. BTW, the green apron they wear looks to be borrowed from Masonic tradition. The Masons wear something like that and from my vague recollection, how you wear the apron denotes your status in Masonic hierarchy. As part of that class, I actually attended Sunday services at a local Mormon ward. It was fascinating and confirmed for me that I would make a terrible Mormon. People could have taken bets on how quickly I could get myself excommunicated. And I only saw that many pregnant women in one place at my OB/GYN's office. Anyway, as part of the main service, a family spoke giving their experience of going to the temple as a family to be sealed. So sealing isn't just for newly married couples, entire families will do it as well.

I was dubious when Jenn showed up to comment with Meri, but I really liked their interaction. They seemed to be genuinely enjoying themselves laughing at Kody and Robyn's dramatics. I also liked that Jenn seems to be trying to help Meri finally connect the dots around Kody and Robyn's constant lies to her. I even saw a lightbulb moment with Meri when they were watching the clip of Kody reminding Robyn of the covenant he made with her not to string her along if he was over her. Jenn pointed out as we all have that Robyn knew then (way before the catfish) that Kody has put Meri aside, but was still stringing her along. Kody is still trying to tie everything back to the catfish when in reality he broke the covenant probably before Robyn came along. He certainly broke it when he melted down the wedding ring and then later legally divorced Meri. I really hope Meri is finally deconstructing the delusion that Kody wanted to repair their marriage. He never did. Good for Janelle for pointing out again that she didn't need Christine to instruct her on how to leave Kody. Janelle has made some terrible choices about money, but I think she handled the rest of it well. And she was far kinder to Kody than he deserved. She didn't string him along with false hope, she just said she was done and wanted to stay separated. The only reason she considers herself married to him is because she can't sort out the religious aspect for herself. But, she is clearly done. I liked that Christine and Janelle really dissected that scene at the picnic table including laughing at Robyn's fake crying. Janelle hit the nail on the head when she said that Kody kept changing the narrative to try to get control over the situation with Meri and Meri was just not having it. I was disgusted when he said that she wasn't allowed to bring up anything he had said on camera. You said it, you own it, buddy. Also, Christine was absolutely right that Robyn was being selfish when she clearly knew that there was nothing in it for Meri to stick around yet kept insisting she do just that. And one more thing - Kitty!!!! The best cameo on the whole show.

Some kind soul posted the link to TLC's website where the talk back part 1 and look back how it started epis are posted. They are in the individual episode threads. I missed the how it started epi and wanted to see it just to see Crybrows' meltdown. It definitely delivered.

I noticed that this time when Jill mentioned Hosana Noble, she didn't add (KIM PLATH) on the end. She used to do that all the time to show that she was friends with someone who had a TV show. I thought Lydia Plath was hanging around casa de Rod last summer. Maybe she was trying to hook her up with Tim or Phillip. Either way, I'm sure she has written Kim off now. I notice she is really flogging her invite to the next Plexus event. I'm sure that's because no one believed she actually was invited on the cruise. Still doubt she'll go to this one either, but she wants us to know she was totally invited. I wonder what her excuse will be this time.

He still looks 14 and she looks like his algebra teacher.

These two are behind. The Bateses were doing parking lot photos a couple of years ago. Not sure why any of them did it.

Ghoulardi was a bit before my time, but I do remember the Ghoul (Jon Swede) who Ernie Anderson handed his material off to. It's very regional humor and I'm sure wouldn't translate to people without Eastern European roots, but I remember loving the Ghoul as a kid. My mother loved Ghoulardi as well. I'm sure that's why my parents had a record with Who Stole the Kishka? on it.

Yes, but his kids are adults now, so his punishments are meaningless to most of them. As Garrison said this season, he doesn't have to care anymore how Kody and Robyn react. That's got to be frustrating to a narcissist like Kody.

I do think it is disturbing that after all this time, Kody is still this angry. He has processed nothing over the two years since Christine left. That should be concerning to Robyn because all that rage has to go somewhere. I would not want my small children around that if I were her.