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As his plural marriage inched closer to its demise, Kody Brown admits he began to believe that polygamy was "unfair" until he reframed his mindset into something more positive.

In an exclusive conversation with PEOPLE, the Sister Wives star, 55, revealed that he first concluded that "plural marriage was completely unfair" after "much thought, much reflection, much prayer" and long discussions with friends.

He added, "There is not a disparity in fairness if there's not a disparity in choice."

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It wasn't until his marriages imploded that he "removed myself from thinking it was unfair."

"Janelle, Meri, Christine, even Robyn, have their choice whether they stay in this relationship or not," he explained. "Now that they've chosen not to be in it, that choice has been made, then I settle into whatever life continues to give me."

Confessing he'd previously felt like he could never "get out of these relationships," Kody said he had different standards for his wives.

"I always felt like my wives had the opportunity to get out," he continues. "Technically our breakups, mine and Meri's, mine and Christine even, with all my bitterness and frustration with it, it was technically a negotiation. We negotiated a breakup."

"It's been a dark time but I'm moving forward. I'm looking at these women with forgiveness, with love, with kindness. We're going to be connected for the rest of our lives because of our children. The best we can do is be kind to each other," he added.

Within 14 months, three of theSister Wivespatriarch's marriages crumbled. Kody's third wifeChristine Brown was thefirst to leavein November 2021. A year later in December 2022, it was revealed that he hadseparatedfrom his second wifeJanelle Brown. A month after that, the end of his union with his first wife Meri Brown wasconfirmedin January after the pair's relationship had beenplatonicand distant for years. Robyn Brown is his only remaining wife.

While speaking to PEOPLE in December 2023, Kody revealed that he and each of his former wives were all at different points in "accepting" and "rejecting" the changes that have come with the end of their decades-long polygamous arrangement.

"It is sad," he admitted. "It is heartbreaking. You're looking for answers in a state of confusion. Once again, the only answer you can make if you want to have a good relationship is moving forward with a lot of charity."

He continued, "You have to express forgiveness to the people you've been involved with. You have to express understanding and hope that at the end of an era for us as a family, we still have hope of a friendship and a loving or kind relationship with each other in the future because we're bound forever through our kids."

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After his recent podcast statement on the nature of men and relationships, famous gospel musician Mr Seed is at the centre of a social media storm.

During the controversial podcast, Mr Seed boldly expressed his views, stating that men were created to be polygamous.

According to him, a man can date a woman for three years, knowing she is not the woman he intends to marry.

One day, he wakes up, dumps the longstanding girlfriend, and weds a woman he just met.

The controversial remarks immediately drew attention and sparked a wave of reactions across social media platforms.

However, it was evident that Nimo did not take the words lightly, escalating tensions between the lovebirds.

She added that she could not finish watching the podcast after hearing her man's perspective regarding relationships.

To underpin how disgusted she was, Nimo confronted her husband over the reckless statement, adding that it portrayed her negatively.

In his defence, the Kumbe Kumbe hitmaker argued that his wife should have listened to the entire podcast before judging.

Mr Seed maintains that the words were taken out of context for the sake of inline traction, something Nimo disagrees with.

In February 2023, Nimo disclosed that she once dumped her singer husband but made up after he told her he loved her dearly.

She opened up about the relationship when Mr Seed was in the news for all the wrong reasons, but she stuck with him through it all.

The content creator revealed that despite the controversies surrounding her man, they are madly in love, although their relationship is imperfect.

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Gospel singer Mr Seed found himself at the centre of a trending discussion following a recent statement he made during a YouTube debate with Based Podcast.

His remarks about men having a natural inclination to marry multiple women stirred controversy and didnt sit well with his partner, Nimo Gachuiri.

In an exclusive interview with Nairobi News, Mr Seed expressed feeling harshly judged by those who commented on a snippet of the video.

He noted that the controversial statement was taken out of context, as the entire debate lasted an hour, but only 30 seconds were highlighted.

When questioned about his stance on polygamy, Mr Seed clarified, I have one wife, and I can never be polygamous. Why should I get a second wife when I have someone that I love? That is a statement that I have heard since my childhood that men are polygamous. I quoted that, but the way I said it came out in a wrong way.

He added, I have even sung for her that she is the only one. We are good; its just a small misunderstanding, and we have talked about it.

Mr Seed acknowledged the online pressure, explaining that it contributed to his wife, Nimos, reaction.

He urged people to listen to the entire podcast before passing judgment and emphasised the podcasts purpose of fostering debate and disagreement.

Also read: Mr Seed exposes mens secretive relationship agendas

Regarding Nimos public response, he stated, Everyone has a right to feel what she felt, and at that time, she was angry, especially because of the online pressure. About her unfollowing me, I do not know since I have not been online. She woke up well and prepared our breakfast.

Nimo, on the other hand, expressed her discontent with Mr Seeds statement in an angry rant and even unfollowed him on Instagram.

She criticised him for making such remarks, considering their stable relationship, and found his comments insensitive.

I saw a small part of the podcast done by Mr Seed, saying whatever he was saying. I didnt even finish watching it. I got angry. So I turned to him and asked, what are you really saying? she wrote in her Instagram stories.

What I want to say is that if its about love, it was an insensitive thing to say when you are in a committed relationship, she added.

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Summary

The dissolution of Kody Brown's plural family started with Christine Brown's exit during Sister Wives season 17, and now it seems he and Robyn Brown might be headed for divorce. Christine was Kody's third wife for 25 years and left Kody in 2021. Christine's decision reverberated throughout the entire Brown family. In 2022, after 30 years of marriage, Kody's third wife, Janelle Brown, decided to leave Kody too. Finally, Kody's first wife, Meri Brown, was tired of being neglected by Kody and followed suit, leaving the plural marriage. This leaves Robyn, Kody's fourth and newest wife, as his last remaining wife.

Sister Wives season 1 showed Kody courting and marrying Robyn in 2010. She was the first wife to be added to the family in 16 years. Though the complex plural family had their fair share of problems, Kody's marriage to Robyn was what triggered their dissolution. Janelle and Christine felt that Kody was showing favoritism to Robyn. For his part, Kody was open about Robyn being the only woman he loved. He claimed to never have loved any of his other three wives, but there are reasons to believe that his marriage with Robyn is headed for divorce as well.

Robyn has said she wants a plural marriage. She's revealed that a big part of the reason she fell in love with Kody was because of the Brown family dynamic and wanted to be a part of it. Robyn's first marriage was monogamous, and it ended badly in divorce. After several years of being a single mom of three kids, Robyn met Kody and his family. Robyn believes in the principle of plural marriage and doesn't want to be Kody's sole wife. Since Kody doesn't currently have any intention of bringing another wife into the family, it's only a matter of time before Robyn decides their marriage isn't working.

After being polygamous for more than 30 years, Kody became monogamous when three of his four wives walked away from their plural family. He remained married to Robyn and recently said that, due to his failed relationships, Kody's no longer an advocate for polygamy. That being said, Kody will get bored being married to only one woman. He may have entered into polygamy out of religious conviction, but the reason plural marriage worked out for him for so long is because Kody loves attention. Also, after raising 18 kids, Kody's used to having more people around; he will feel stagnant living with one wife and five kids.

When the series Sister Wives first premiered in 2010, Kody was legally married to Meri, his first wife, whom Kody now says he regrets marrying. He was also spiritually married to Janelle and Christine as a part of his polygamist relationship. When Robyn joined the family, she entered into a spiritual marriage with Kody. Kody and Meri were legally married for 14 years before he divorced her in 2014 so he could legally marry Robyn and adopt her three children. Unlike Meri, Janelle, and Christine, if Robyn were to divorce Kody, she'd be entitled to spousal support and child support.

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TDs are quite partial to the occasional bit of swapping.

There are big parties and small parties and its been going on since the early 1950s. Deputies meet in secret in special rooms in Government Buildings and Leinster House and occasionally they gather in upmarket hotels around Kildare Street just for the thrill of it.

Some politicians will go off with anyone if they get the right offer. They can sometimes hook up for years, but it always ends in grief.

These relationships never last. They are not durable.

Roderic OGorman, Cabinet Minister and member of the Green Party, knows this because he is currently in a politically polygamist arrangement with a number of like-minded parliamentarians.

Therefore, he was well qualified to speak to the subject when Michael McNamara, the Independent TD for Clare, held forth at some length on the subject of polygamy.

It wasnt a discussion we were expecting to hear late in the afternoon on the Dils first day back since the Christmas recess.

Housing? Yes. Gaza? Of course. Roscrea migrants shambles? Absolutely.

But not polygamy.

And throuples. Thats when most people in offices around Leinster House who had the proceedings on in the background reached for the remote and turned up the volume.

Are we to say that a polygamous marriage is not a durable relationship? wondered Michael during a debate on the referendums and the proposal to amend the Constitutional definition of a family to one founded on marriage or other durable relationships.

People in other cultures have been in polygamous marriages for centuries, he informed Roderic, the Minister for Children, Equality, Integration, Disability and Youth, who is the busiest Minister in the land, despite Heather Humphreys gushing praise for Housing Minister Darragh OBrien earlier on.

Working day and night, she marvelled as Darragh went slightly red and smothered a smirk.

Although she pronounced his surname differently, in the way comedian Dara Briain pronounces his.

The way things are going, maybe the Government could do worse than put a comedian in charge of a housing situation which a lot of people think is a joke.

[Expanded concept of family in Constitution will not cover polygamous relationships]

But back to Roderic, or Poor Roderic as he is increasingly known, such is his workload. He has his hands full with a dangerously simmering immigration issue which runs across many Government departments whose Ministers make fleeting guest appearances while he does all the heavy lifting.

For respite, he was confined to the Dil chamber all day on Wednesday, carefully reading through piles of documents and chewing his ballpoint during Leaders Questions and the Order of Business when Heather, the Minister for Social Protection, stood in for the absent Taoiseach and Tnaiste.

Then he nipped into her seat to take the committee stage debate on framing the terms of the forthcoming referendums.

It was scheduled to run for hours.

As the afternoon unfolded, what we desperately wanted was to hear that famous chant from Monty Pythons The Life of Brian ring out around the chamber.

Welease Wodewick!

Independent TD Michael McNamara riffed on polygamy and how it is probably misunderstood by most people in this country Photograph: Oireachtas TV.

Instead, he had to stay in situ while Michael McNamara riffed on polygamy and how it is probably misunderstood by most people in this country.

To say such unions are not durable would be inaccurate, I think he told Poor Roderic, who is a law lecturer and was well across the detail of the proposed amendments.

Would it be right to rule them out of constitutional consideration?

Polygamous relationships wont be recognised under the proposed changes to the Constitution, confirmed the Minister. They do not represent a moral institution in Irish law.

McNamara was like a dog with a bone. But once upon a time in Irish law homosexuality was not considered a moral institution. Look at it now.

Is polygamy not durable?

Its not recognised under Irish law, explained the Minister. Labour leader Ivana Bacik, a law professor, said its a criminal offence here.

No, said Roderic, it will not be classified as a durable relationship.

Why? persisted Michael.

The Minister started explaining again about the Governments clear policy intention whether its a polygamous relationship or some other arrangement.

Ive heard the word throuples thrown around these sort of relationships.

McNamara did a double take.

What?

Throuples, repeated Roderic.

Truffles? said Michael, who is a barrister.

Throuples.

Three, explained Labours Sen Sherlock, very slowly.

Oh, sorry. Truffles. I thought you said truffles.

No, I did not.

The penny dropped.

I thought you said truffles. I wondered if there were truffles in the restaurant. Sorry.

Deputy McNamaras sudden realisation was reminiscent of the great Mattie McGrath/Adrian Lynch exchange during a committee hearing last year when an RT executive thought Tipperary TD Mattie was asking him who he was lying to, until it dawned on him that Mattie wanted to know who he was loyal to.

And when Lynch then repeated the word loyal, the way McNamara repeated the word truffle on Wednesday.

Are you hungry? asked Ceann Comhairle Sen Fearghal. Its far from truffles he was reared.

Roderic OGorman, of course, is currently in a throuple with Fine Gael and Fianna Fil.

Not to be categorised as a durable relationship either.

At this rate, these referendums, which havent exactly caught the publics imagination yet, might provide some diversion after all.

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The Brown family patriarch tells PEOPLE he's been rebuilding his self-esteem "because it destroys your confidence when you go through a divorce or a family breakup"

Kody Brown is embracing healing after the collapse of his polygamous family unit.

Though the Sister Wives star, who turned 55 on Saturday, tells PEOPLE that he still has good days and bad days and that his last several years have been "sad and challenging" as three of his four marriages ended, he's still looking forward to better times ahead.

It's been a process, he shares. Really I just look forward to a future of a lot of forgiving and a lot of more understanding.

Related: Why Kody Brown Thinks the 'Healing' Between Him and His Exes Is 'Just Beginning Now' (Exclusive)

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Kody admits that he's had to rebuild his self-esteem because it destroys your confidence when you go through a divorce or a family breakup.

I feel like my confidence is coming back, he says. I got to find that space of grace and love for myself as well. Be it really forgiving of simple things, like just being angry about what has happened. I want to forgive myself for that and move on.

Related: Kody Brown Views His Tattered Attempt at Polygamy as a 'Shakespearean Love Story'Turned'Tragedy' (Exclusive)

Kody says it's a journey that goes inward and it's a journey that's outward following the end of his spiritual unions with exes Christine, 51; Janelle, 54, and Meri, 53.

You have to express forgiveness to the people you've been involved with, he adds. You have to express understanding and hope that at the end of an era for us as a family, we still have hope of a friendship and a loving or kind relationship with each other in the future because we're bound forever through our kids.

Related: Sister Wives: Kody Commends 'Brave' Christine for Leaving After He Felt Like a 'Prisoner' to Her for Years

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In November 2021, Christine, left her spiritual marriage to Kody, unknowingly becoming the first domino to fall in what became a 14-month Sister Wives exodus. Then in December 2022, Janelle confirmed that she and Kody had separated as well. And in January 2023, Meri confirmed her split from Kody after 32 years of marriage. Kody remains married to his fourth wife Robyn Brown, 45.

With some distance from the fallout of the splits, Kody tells PEOPLE he's in a place now of just healing in time and getting to a point where you feel forgiveness towards somebody who's just said bad things about you.

He continued, What will move us forward will be the grace, the love and the forgiveness. The same grace and love that we were giving each other 10 years ago as we're going through this very difficult process.

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