In the most recent “Sister Wives” episode, the reality star claims she doesn’t feel like she’s getting “what she deserves.” In the most recent episode of “Sister Wives,” Janelle Brown makes a significant decision that will affect both the course of her marriage and her life. The couple’s dramatic battle, which resulted in Kody Brown walking out, is depicted in the episode titled “Understatement of the Year” as they reunite for the first time in six weeks. Janelle Brown confesses in a self-made video that she hasn’t spoken to or seen her spouse since their dispute and that she won’t simply kiss and make up without seeking a real settlement.
“I have realized this time it’s just not working for me anymore. I really want to be treated differently and I want some more things out of a relationship. Can we do that with ours? It would be stupid to throw away 30 years or whatever, but I don’t know. I really just don’t know if we really can fix that,” she says.
Janelle Brown acknowledges while thinking back on her time apart from Kody Brown that she “didn’t really miss him” and isn’t “pining for him.” Kody Brown, meanwhile, calls the altercation “sad” and “ugly” in his own confessional. As is to be expected, the couple’s initial lunchtime greetings are awkward. Kody Brown says he’s “embarrassed by (his) behavior” as they begin to talk.
“This divorce (with Christine Brown) is affecting me in every way. It’s affecting all my relationships. I’m realizing that I am morphing or transmuting grief into anger. And I realize that I’m just not a safe place for you to have a conversation. So just one trigger after another just set me off,” he says.
Janelle Brown isn’t pleased with his justification and vents about it in her own confessional.
“’Well, my relationship with you is crap because I’m so angry about this divorce,'” she says. “Well, be a man, separate your relationships like you have for our entire plural marriage and pay attention here.”
Back at lunch, Janelle Brown addresses the status of their relationship.
“I do think I want to stay separated for now,” she says.
A surprised Kody Brown says, “Really? You want to stay separated?”
She then reiterates her last statement and says, “Yeah, I do.” In his confessional, Kody Brown says he’s “surprised” by his wife’s decision.
“We’ve been separated probably two or three times in the past. I always felt like that was because she couldn’t manage the relationship with her sister wives. I never felt like that was over me, but maybe I was wrong,” he says.
Back at lunch, Janelle Brown suggests that they attend counseling sessions together.
“I just know that I need to be separate right now, you know? I mean, I still have a lot of affection for you,” she says.
The father of 18 then says he’s learned something important from their big fight.
“If I get angry, I’m going to leave. I’m not going to be accusatory. I realized that I’m morphing this grief,” he says. The conversation turns to their ongoing feud about Kody Brown’s estrangement with his sons and how it has affected their marriage.
“I do not know how to reconcile with you unless my kids can all (be on good terms with you),” she says and asks why he didn’t call their daughter Savanah Brown over Christmas.
Kody Brown said he’s been “doing a lot of business” lately, making it challenging to visit his kid. The mother of six claims in a personal interview that she is “not really inclined to stay in this relationship with Kody.” She says, “I feel like I’m not getting what I deserve from him. I’m fairly independent, you see. I don’t require much of him. But when it comes down to it, if my children don’t agree with him, he suddenly doesn’t want to be their father, that kind of changes the cost-benefit analysis for me in this marriage.
Later on in the episode, Janelle Brown acknowledges that she does “miss Kody.”
We are each other’s best buddies. There are several chats between us. In my bed, I miss him. He is missed in my home. He is missed. However, I’m not getting the respect I deserve in this place, she confesses. Janelle Brown suggests that she might be better off moving on as the show comes to a close.
“Now, here’s the deal. I might, I might try to work on it if he wanted it. I’m not going to sit here and put all my work into trying to make it if he doesn’t want it, though, because I believe there is something greater for me,” she says.