Sister Wives star Kody Brown recently sold the Brown family’s Coyote Pass land for a whopping $1.5 million dollars, and before he did that, he decided to give his ex-wives Janelle and Meri Brown bigger shares of the Arizona land, which meant that each received $305,000. In other words, he basically gave away $610,000. When he made that sacrifice, Kody seemed like the perfect gentleman. The thing is, Kody might have felt intense pressure to relinquish his 97 percent ownership of the land.

Kody used to insult the long-suffering women who watched him fall deeply in love with another woman. He derisively described them as entitled “princesses.” That rude remark is just the tip of the iceberg, and Janelle, Meri and Christine Brown are good women. They waited decades before bailing out – they were really trying to make things work. In return, they were accused of parental alienation after their splits. So, how does a man who does that turn into a Disney prince, bestowing favors on hard-up “Cinderella” Janelle and the always overlooked Meri? Possibly, he didn’t change at all.

Kody Is Turning On A Dime

He’s Played The Victim But Now He’s The “Hero”

Kody seemed to resent the women who’d gone through so much of his life journey with him, and then left him only because he loved someone else. On the surface of things, this doesn’t make a lot of sense. Kody pushed them away and then seemed to complain about them – how is that logical? However, he has his own take on things, and his belief is that these women punished him for falling in love with Robyn. There may be a grain of truth to this.

Back in the old days, the plural marriage seemed less dysfunctional. It was often centered around the children, which made it seem sweet, homespun, and emotionally satisfying. The kids got love from an array of moms, and the family’s patriarch loved them too. They did fun activities as a group, and lived together. However, the days of sledding and pumpkin carving weren’t fated to last. The bad blood bubbling up from underneath began to poison the dynamic, hurting Kody, the women, and the children.

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The Now-Exes Couldn’t Stay The Same

They Were In Too Much Pain

Human nature always rears its head. It can’t be kept down. While women in polygamy are conditioned to accept a state of silent suffering when they feel very human emotions like jealousy and anger, after decades, it was impossible for the women to really repress all of those feelings. As per Mormonism Research Ministry, “sacred loneliness” is about women enduring soltitude while in plural marriage. Even now that Robyn is in a monogamous relationship, she and Kody are fighting, as seen in the clip above.

It’s hard enough to make it work with one person, much less four people. Kody gets all the blame, but imagine how hard it would be! Whatever goes wrong is going to be considered his fault. That creates so much pressure. He’s the family’s leader, and falling in love with Robyn wasn’t his fault. The family has been through the wringer, INCLUDING Kody. He gets the villain edit every single time – people don’t really give him a fair hearing, but he has feelings too.

Christine felt unloved, longing for passion her husband couldn’t provide. Christine found it with David Woolley, who’s now her husband. Janelle had the same desires, wanting a “real” husband, at least some of the time. Meri, cast out after an unfortunate catfishing scandal, was lowest on the totem pole, unable to get Kody’s friendship, much less his ardor.

It was a mess – a truly emotionally damaging situation that left three wives feeling like satellites orbiting around Kody and Robyn, who were on their own planet. In their world, there was a core family – Robyn, Kody and their children. Everything else seemed to come second.

During the pandemic, the pressures on the family reached critical mass. It was just impossible for the Browns to live as they had before, with Kody visiting his non-Robyn wives. He was too afraid of contracting the COVID-19 virus. So, the chasm between the core family and the “others” grew.

The Brown Parents Are Changing

They’re In A Different Stage Of Life

It’s easy to be glib about reality stars, but after decades, the love, time and energy that Janelle, Meri and Christine pouredinto the family was significant, and that meant significant pain when things ended. They had swallowed their pride a million times, trying to make a man who was in love with someone else pay attention to them. That is degrading. However, all believed in plural marriage, and had to re-examine their beliefs in order to free their minds. Above, Janelle focuses on what’s working, rather than Kody, definitely moving in the right direction.

As people get older, they change, and that’s a factor here too. The fighting gets tiresome – everyone wants peace and happiness. They say that in midlife, a new attitude about ego emerges, and a person is just different. They see the big picture, and want to use the time they have left to get along with others, and really enjoy their lives. There’s less focus on things that used to be important, but no longer are. In a sense, the midlife crisis and its aftermath also destroyed the Brown family.

In mid-life crisis, the person lashes out, longing for youth that is gone. They may regress a bit. When that ends, there’s a period when a person starts looking at their life with a pitiless lens, under very harsh light. They think about what they want for the future – do they really need to hold onto the same values?

All the Brown parents (Kody, Janelle, Robyn and Christine) are older now, and wiser. They have lived and lost. They’ve fought so many battles. The war over Coyote Pass is now over. Garrison Brown has died. These life events have shaped everyone, changing them from the inside out. And so, people are going their own ways, or trying to. Each part of the fractured Brown family is on a journey – the journeys are no longer the same.

Kody may not have sold Coyote Pass because he wanted to please his exes and make their lives easier. He may have done it because they threatened to take him to court. However, it wasn’t really wrong of those women to believe that they deserved more than the pittance that they would have gotten had he retained his full 97 percent ownership. They paid into the family too.

Kody may have awakened to this – to the inherent unfairness of him owning so much, while they owned so little, when he was the one controlling the money. All of this is quite sticky morally. Yes, he used his money to buy the lion’s share, but then again, his wives couldn’t freely spend the family money.

As the man of the house, Kody made the decisions. This is where the issue of fairness comes in. Now, except for the fact that Christine didn’t get a share, fairness is restored, but that doesn’t mean that the Sister Wives star Kody is at peace with his relationships with his exes. In fact, there’s probably more drama to come.