(L-R) Kody Brown and Janelle Brown on TLC’s ‘Sister Wives’.Photo:TLC
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Janelle Browncould see the end of her once-happy polygamous coming from a mile away.
“I will say, there was a lot of time that what Kody really wanted was this big, unified family,” said Janelle, 54. “When we all came together, we decided to have the children treat each other like brothers and sisters. So that was a huge goal of his for many, many, many years.”
From Janelle’s perspective, “part of [Kody’s] anger” stemmed from his dream of a big happy family “dissolving.”
“I think maybe this is where we were headed,” she continued. “He just didn’t want to admit it because he was starting to say things like, ‘I’m tired of shouldering the work here,’ ‘I’m tired of being the one who carries these relationships.'”
The entire Brown family from TLC’s ‘Sister Wives’.Puddle Monkey Prods/Kobal/Shutterstock
Trying to pinpoint what went wrong, Meri said during Friday’s episode that there’s “been a lot of speculation” around that topic.
“Look, we had our problems. There’s a big dynamic when you have those personalities, but we worked very hard together for the sake of the children,” Janelle said separately.
Meri later noted that she believes “polygamy can work” and it “did work” in the first few years of their family. Addressing his stance on the matter, Kody said, “Polygamy has just been something that I failed so badly at that I don’t really think that I believe in polygamy for me.”
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source: people.com
