Kody Brown doesn’t assume church is a “secure place” for him after going by way of three divorces — however he’s additionally not a fan of spouse Robyn Brown attending solo, both.
“Once I met Kody, he was very a lot concerned in our church and from my understanding he was comfortable in our church,” Robyn, 46, mentioned through the Sunday, December 15, episode of Sister Wives, reflecting on the place the couple stands inside their church congregation. “I imply, I wouldn’t have in all probability thought-about marrying him if I didn’t assume he was.”
Robyn, who’s Kody’s fourth spouse, defined that when their household went public with their polygamist lifestyle it modified issues for her husband, 55.
“I believe actually, the way in which that our church reacted to that actually, sort of, threw him off, and it made him really feel identical to, ‘Wait, what the heck?’” she recalled.
Kody agreed, telling the cameras, “I discovered that my religion began to contradict the religionist attitudes, kind of the gatekeepers.” He added that after the church began telling him to chop his hair or act a sure manner, it was a turnoff.
After splitting from wives Christine, Janelle, and Meri Brown in 2021, 2022 and 2023, respectively, Kody’s distance from the church solely grew. Robyn, nonetheless, advised her partner on Sunday’s episode that she desires to return.
“I need to come eventually,” Kody advised Robyn, who mentioned she and their eldest daughters need to check out new locations of worship.
Kody then teased, “Properly, you don’t need to go too lengthy with out me, as a result of I don’t need some man pondering you’re a single mom.”
The patriarch defined to viewers that “there’s loads of males occupied with Robyn,” who had been “kind of making an attempt to get round me and to her.” The scenario, he admitted, worries him.
“As a result of the primary time I noticed you in our church, we made that gaze, that connection,” Kody recalled to Robyn, who teased that she was the one who made the gaze.
Kody insisted, “Oh, no, no, no, no. I regarded longer. By the point you regarded away, I really mentioned, ‘That was in all probability inappropriate. She is more than likely married.’”
He bought an enormous smile on his face earlier than asking Robyn to recount what it was like seeing him greater than a decade in the past in church. “I need to know that God has been my wingman with you and that nobody can take you away,” Kody mentioned.
Robyn gushed over their connection as properly, saying, “I used to be sitting there with my cousin. I used to be wanting round. I checked out you for some time.”
She remembered seeing Kody’s “chuckle strains, as a result of I really like chuckle strains. And then you definately checked out me in a bolt of lightning photographs for my physique.”
Robyn later advised the cameras that though she first noticed Kody at church, it wasn’t till a month later that she “randomly” met him and first spouse Meri, 53, on their garden.
Kody and Robyn concluded their dialog by Kody saying he doesn’t need “some man” holding her “gaze” whereas she’s worshiping in his absence. “I’m mate guarding now,” Kody mentioned. “I’m protecting the pride.”
Robyn reassured her husband that she’d put on her wedding ceremony ring and inform everybody she’s off the market.
Sister Wives airs on TLC Sundays at 10 p.m. ET.