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Sure, Sister Wives patriarch Kody Brown once felt quite strongly that his love should be multiplied, not divided.
His daughters’ affection, however, he’d very much like removed from the equation. After his and Robyn Brown‘s eldest daughter Aurora Brown brought home boyfriend Brodie Utley on the TLC series’ Oct. 26 episode, Kody reminded the rancher that it was his job to protect the 23-year-old—both physically and emotionally.
“When you’re protecting a girl like I want to protect Robyn,” Kody explained to Brodie, comparing it to his 15-year union with his sole remaining wife, “when I’m protecting her from myself, I’m trying to protect her from being hurt by me.”
So, while Brodie explained he’d given the college student one of his pocket knives, Kody intended for his point to cut a little deeper.
“After awhile, it’s clear that my dad’s talking about chastity,” Aurora summed up. “And I can tell Brodie’s very much thinking about tactics: ‘I know how to use knives. I’m trained in mixed martial arts. She’s good, sir.'”
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Of course, that’s not the sort of physicality the former polygamist was concerned with.
“I’m just constantly reminding Aurora and Brodie to take care because I don’t want my kids fooling around,” the father of 18 explained to cameras. “I say to these young men, ‘Almost always your job is to protect my daughter, even from yourself. When you’re just dating, you’re kissing another man’s wife until she’s your wife. And if she doesn’t become your wife, you’re kissing another man’s wife.'”
For that reason, concluded Kody, also dad to Dayton, 25, Breanna, 21, Solomon, 13, and Ariella, 9, with Robyn, “I believe in chastity, like, don’t take something away from them that doesn’t belong to you.”
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In addition to love being patient and kind, Kody noted, “If you love my daughter, then you’ll love her as much as I loved her mother. And I kept my hands off of her ’til we were married.”
Granted, he acknowledged, when courting Robyn, he was still married to his first three spouses Meri Brown, Janelle Brown and Christine Brown.
“I had an outlet,” he admitted. “I’m still loving with my wives. But we didn’t have real physical connection until we were married.”
Ultimately, Brodie was able to hang on through Kody’s intense questioning.
“He wears cowboy boots,” he summed up of the real-life cowboy. “He rides horses. He listens to country western music. He even plays guitar. The cowboy cliché is like the cliché of the drummer in a rock and roll band. It’s like, can I trust my daughter with a cowboy? Well, I think I can trust my daughter with this cowboy.”
Admittedly, Kody’s been far more critical of the boys his daughters have been rounding up in recent years.
Referencing Madison Brush‘s betrothal to Caleb Brush, Mykelti Padron‘s union with Tony Padron and Aspyn Brown‘s partnering up with Mitch Thompson, Kody acknowledged, “I feel like I’m more discriminating now.”
Having gone through his 2021 split with Christine, followed by separations from Janelle and Meri, he added, “It’s a totally different story.”
And he’s hopeful it will lead to a happier ending than the saga he’s been on with his three former brides.
“In the culture I came from, if at 22, I’m going steady with somebody, it’s because we’re going to get married,” he explained of rushing down the aisle. “Every experience that I had was, like, I knew within a few days, maybe a few weeks of dating that it was good or not. And then later in my life, 25, 30 years later, I was like, ‘Oh, that wasn’t a good idea.'”
And that’s just a bit of the sage wisdom he’s shared on the TLC series’ 20th season. Keep reading for more truths he and his former spouses have divulged.
Janelle Brown Is Considering a Spiritual Divorce From Ex Kody Brown
Officially done with former husband Kody Brown (and his nice pecs and six-pack abs), Janelle Brown revealed in Sister Wives‘ season 20 opener that she’s borrowing a page from Meri Brown‘s playbook.
Never legally entwined to Kody during their 29-year marriage, “I had sort of thought about a spiritual divorce a long time ago and didn’t even realize it was an option,” the patriarch’s second wife detailed on the Sept. 28 premiere. “And so when Meri got one, I’m like, ‘Oh, hey, Meri, who do I call?'”
And her former sister wife—who was granted a spiritual release from their former church on the grounds of abandonment—was more than happy to fill in some blanks. Said Janelle, “She has been kind of helping me get in touch with everybody.”
Madison Brush Would Like to Reconcile With Dad Kody Brown
Madison Brush is still working through the sins of her father. Amid her ongoing estrangement from dad Kody, Madison—the second oldest of his and Janelle’s six kids—admitted on the Sept. 28 episode that she’s still struggling with the separation.
“You want your dad to show up,” the mother of four shared in a confessional alongside husband Caleb Brush. “You want reconciliation. I know I played a part and I’m angry because I’m still trying to learn to not be disappointed.”
It’s a lesson she’s struggling to master. “I’m still learning how to just see him for who he is,” she noted. “I’m trying to understand that maybe he didn’t know how to show up. He might be hurting.”
He also might not be willing to cede too much ground.
Kody stressed his desire to have healing with Meri, Janelle, third wife Christine Brown and their children, explaining, “I think we’re in an impasse here because this healing can only happen on their terms only.”
Kody Brown Has This Concern About His Sex Life With Wife Robyn Brown
To hear Kody’s fourth and sole remaining wife Robyn Brown tell it, she always wanted the family, not just the man. “I had marriage proposals,” she revealed on the Sept. 28 episode. Not necessarily an on-bended-knee situation, she noted, just “different men at different times said, you know, ‘I’d marry you in heartbeat.'”
Her response never wavered: “I was just like, ‘Well, I plan to live a plural marriage.'” And had Kody been single when he pursued her, rather than a devoted family man with three wives, “I would have said the same thing to you.”
But now that they find themselves as unintentional monogamists, asserted Kody, “It’s you and me, baby.”
Though he admittedly had one concern.
“There’s something I want maybe more than you do,” Kody told Robyn, alluding to their sex life. The way he saw it, Kody continued in a confessional, “A polygamist is getting more than he wants and a monogamist isn’t getting enough.”
Meri Brown Reveals an Ex Broke Up With Her Over Her Polygamous Past
Throwing herself into dating, Meri knows precisely what she’s looking for in a man: In addition to a tall guy, “super important for me is to find somebody who wants to travel with me,” the avid road-tripper explained in the Oct. 5 episode. “And also must not have cats. Must love dogs.”
And she definitely needs someone who won’t scare easily.
“There was a guy that I was talking to,” she detailed of one of her more troubling dating adventures. Once he discovered she was a polygamist, “He was like, ‘I can’t continue talking to you. This is not something that I’m even interested in or open to,'” she shared. “And it was very hurtful to me. Because I was a polygamist, you’re not interested in pursuing a relationship with me?”
For Meri, she continued, “It was like my first real big realization that that’s going to inhibit some people from even wanting to start talking to me.”
Janelle Brown Thinks No One Else Really Wanted to Live on Coyote Pass
Janelle is convinced she was the only member of her sprawling fam who truly wanted to land on Coyote Pass.
Discussing the family’s standoff over the 14-acre property they purchased ahead of their 2018 move to Flagstaff, Ariz., Janelle admitted on the Oct 3 episode, “I’m not actually sure I ever had the dream of us all being out on Coyote Pass.”
Because while Kody’s second wife could imagine herself settling out there—”It’s a beautiful piece of property, why not?”—she alleged that it was more of a passing phase for her ex and his other brides.
“Nobody really wanted to live out there,” she said, adding that Christine definitely didn’t and Meri would have obliged “if everybody else had done it.”
As for Kody and Robyn, they “had a house that was pretty much there without being there on the property,” Janelle surmised of the two-acre, five-bedroom spread they have since sold for $1.7 million.
So as much as they all howled over the land they initially split into four separate parcels, said Janelle, “I just could see very soon after we moved to Flagstaff that that was not going to be a thing.”
Why Kody Brown Thinks He Has a Strained Relationship With “Most” of His Adult Kids
Kody has a theory about why his bonds with the majority of his adult kids (save for Robyn’s eldest Dayton, Aurora and Breanna) are kinda garbage.
“I think most of the relationships between me and my adult children are strained,” he acknowledged on the Oct. 5 episode. “It’s an issue of trash talk and innuendo, and it has challenged loyalties and trust on all sides.”
And these days, not many of his grown kids are on Team Kody.
Though Mykelti Padron—one of his six children with Christine—had been the most outwardly supportive of her father, months after she and husband Tony Padron made the move to North Carolina with their three children, she gave her take on the rift.
“I think that if he took more accountability in any of his actions, his kids—maybe not all of them, but at least some of them—would reach out,” she noted during an October 2024 fan Q&A shared on the Instagram account @withoutacrystalball. “Instead of blaming the children, or blaming how they feel about his relationship with his other wife or blaming the parents or blaming gossip or whatever, if he just said, ‘Look, I understand I did blank wrong. I’m sorry. Can we talk about it?’ I feel like that would go such a long way.”
Janelle Brown Admits She Would Have Taken Half of Kody Brown’s Assets
With the April 2025 sale of Coyote Pass, Janelle and Meri walked away from their marriage to Kody with a nice parting gift. (Christine had already signed over her portion of the land in exchange for keeping the proceeds from the sale of her Arizona home.)
As Janelle joked to Meri on the Oct. 5 episode, it was “a nice way to just be like, ‘See you later. Hope I never see you again. Goodbye.'”
But she certainly wouldn’t have waved off an even nicer present.
Had she been “legally married to Kody,” she noted, she absolutely would have taken half of his assets “because it would have been half mine.”
Kody Brown Agreed to Sell Coyote Pass for This Reason
Before Kody and Robyn agreed to close the door on their Coyote Pass dreams, they had to open, not a window, but the contract on their new $2.1 million manse. After months of going back and forth with his exes about unloading the massive property, “Selling Coyote Pass became a reality for us,” Kody detailed in the Oct. 12 episode, “only when we, we discovered we really wanted this other house.”
The dad of 18 is also eager to unload the bad memories of their previous home. “We’ve experienced a lot of heartache here,” he posited. “And we want a new beginning, something different, something new.”
Why Kody Brown Feels He Failed at Plural Marriage
Though Kody felt his love should be multiplied—committing to four different wives—his attention wasn’t divided all that equally. “I felt like I was devoted to our family and to plural marriage, but then I struggled to be devoted specifically to every single wife and vice versa,” he reasoned on the Oct. 19 episode. “I don’t think the wives were devoted to me or to each other as a whole.”
Among his missteps, he guessed, was setting up Robyn in her $1.65 million, five-bedroom Flagstaff home while other spouses were making do with less. “I don’t know what went wrong,” he said of ending his unions to Meri, Janelle and Christine, “but I know that I stirred up a jealousy putting her in this house. My wives, in whatever way, couldn’t handle that I was willing to fight so much to make sure that Robyn was safely kept.”
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