Kody Brown is dealing with an surprising problem in his marriage to Robyn Brown: adjusting to life as a monogamist after years in a plural marriage
The Sister Wives star opened up in regards to the challenges of navigating a monogamous marriage with Robyn after his separations from Christine Brown, Janelle Brown and Meri Brown.
“There’s this unusual factor that Robyn and I have been in plural marriage collectively,” Kody defined in the course of the Season 20 premiere on September 28. “All of it got here collectively after which all of them simply left. Like we’re monogamous, however we didn’t select that.”
He added, “I’m now in a special marriage than I’ve ever been in.”
Even Robyn, who shares two of Kody’s 19 youngsters, admitted she isn’t used to having him round a lot. “It’s positively a special stability,” she mentioned in her personal confessional. “He wasn’t there on a regular basis. It was a pair instances per week. I feel as a result of he had so many wives, he didn’t need to test in the identical manner as you’d as a monogamist.”
Robyn additionally revealed to Kody that monogamy isn’t one thing she has historically needed. She shared that she’s turned down previous companions who weren’t serious about a polygamous life-style.
“If there was someone who was actually supportive and actually needed to work and actually needed a relationship with me in addition to with you, not simply you,” she defined to Kody in the course of the episode, “After which we had a assure that it was going to be OK and it was going to be great and it was going to be what I all the time dreamed it was presupposed to be, that might be one thing to actually, really think about.”
Regardless of this, Kody admitted that the one motive he would think about opening up their marriage once more was sexual attraction. “My main motivation, I’m afraid, at this state in my life, could be how good trying she is,” he advised Robyn, who burst out laughing. “I’m not kidding.”
Robyn playfully referred to as him out, saying, “You don’t perceive the way you’re coming throughout.” In a later confessional, she added, “You’re simply type of being a pig proper now.”
The couple in the end agreed that including one other individual to their marriage wasn’t possible right now, however Robyn made it clear how off-putting she discovered Kody’s reasoning. “For me, I’m like, OK, so you have got the true relationship with me,” she defined in a confessional. “However then she’s similar to, what? A concubine? ‘Trigger that’s just about what that’s.” She continued, “It ought to be greater than that for certain.”
