Sister Wives’ Robyn Feels ‘Powerless’ in Monogamous Marriage With Kody: ‘Not What I Needed’

On Sunday’s all new episode of Sister Wives, Robyn and husband Kody Brown detailed how their lives have modified since going from a plural marriage with fellow wives Janelle Brown, Christine Brown and Meri Brown to a monogamous relationship inside the previous few years.

“I really feel actually powerless, and I really feel it is simply extra of my dream slipping away,” Robyn stated in a confessional after Kody informed her he sees no hope of reconciliation along with his ex-wives. “It is extra of what I hoped for slipping away. I simply do not know how one can let it go.”

However for Kody, even with Robyn expressing her hopes that he would possibly have the ability to repair his relationship with at the least Janelle, he is aware of the previous is the previous.

“I’ve considered this for a complete 12 months or two with Janelle, we’re not in love,” Kody informed Robyn. “Me and Janelle simply do not need to be round one another. She desires to do issues completely different than what I need to do. We’re simply not matching up.”

Regardless of this, Robyn admitted in her confessional, “I simply nonetheless suppose that they may work it out.”

However Kody is certain that it will not, with Robyn’s heartbreak over the lack of their plural marriage prompting some fear within the Brown household patriarch.

“Will you settle for me as a monogamist? Is there an issue with that?” he requested her.

Robyn informed him she’ll “at all times persist with,” however admitted in a confessional that “this isn’t what I needed for my life. I am simply kind of caught.”

“No matter I’ve performed in these marriages, they’re performed,” Kody informed Robyn, adamant that his prior lives along with his former wives are over. “No matter occurred between me and them, I am performed. I am not going to repair it with Meri. I am not going to try to repair it with Janelle anymore. She’s performed with me.”

“I miss nothing,” the daddy of 18 added of his former life — besides “the love” of his kids.

Unable to let it go, Robyn questioned whether or not Kody really beloved his former wives.

“However you, like, fell in love and was in love with every of them, although, proper?” she requested him. “Like, you are saying a variety of actually completely different, unusual belongings you’ve by no means stated earlier than about loving them and never loving them. It has been bizarre.”

Whereas Kody admitted to Robyn he hadn’t understood “deep divine love” in his first marriages, he is now prepared to shut the ebook on them … and this dialog.

“What do I’ve to say to make you truly let it go?” he requested her. “I would like you to let that go for me and never maintain it in opposition to me.”

Reflecting on Robyn becoming a member of their household, Kody added, “I should have offered her one thing particular as a result of she got here in desirous to be a part of this particular factor,” he famous. “And now that it is falling aside, it is messing along with her.”

Elsewhere in the course of the episode, Kody opened up about dropping his virginity in faculty, one thing he stated he nonetheless regrets to this present day.

“I had a lover in faculty, and it was somewhat tryst,” Kody stated in a confessional. The fact star confessed he was “a naughty boy based mostly on my religion” due to the dalliance.

“I had a relationship in faculty the place I misplaced my virginity,” he shared. “It was devastating to me. It was heartbreaking.”

Since “purity” was “every part” in his religion, Kody stated having intercourse out of wedlock messed with him. “It is such as you’re working your method again for it,” he informed the cameras, reiterating, “It’s devastating.”

Robyn helped him by means of it, nonetheless, with Kody including that he informed her about it within the first month, noting that Meri additionally knew about it, however he by no means informed Christine or Janelle as a result of he wasn’t as shut along with his former wives.

Whereas being a monogamist is a “bizarre” feeling for Kody, he stated he desires Robyn to see his price after going by means of the lack of three relationships in such a brief time frame.

“It is a bizarre place to be the place I am a monogamist now. Not out of some type of selection, so to talk, however out of a consummate failure in marriage relationships,” he stated to the cameras. “I’ve had three ladies who’ve determined I am not price it.”

“I do not need Robyn to see me as nugatory,” Kody added earlier than asking. “Am I actually type of simply not price it?”

Sister Wives airs on TLC Sundays at 10:00 p.m. ET.