‘Sister Wives’: The One Thing The Brown Family Has Taught Fans About Polygamy – Showbiz Cheat Sheet

KodyBrown and his four wives once claimed they signed up for reality TV so theworld could better understand polygamy. Meri Brown, Christine Brown, JanelleBrown, and Robyn Brown all once claimed that they wanted people to realize thattheir alternative lifestyle was a happy one. Throughout several seasons of Sister Wives, fanshave learned that the Brown family is anything but happy together. The Brownshave effectively taught their viewers that polygamy is more about sacrificethan collaborative living, insistfans.

Kody has beenmarried to his first three wives for 30, 27, and 26 years, respectively. Hemarried his fourth wife, Robyn, in 2010. Meri, Janelle, and Christine, inparticular, should have had a lot of practice when it came to plural living,but both Christine and Meri seemed to struggle mightily withfeelings of jealousy. Robyn has seemingly struggled with the same emotion.

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Janelle and Robynhave both suggested polygamy is all about sacrifice, and Janelle admitted, in atell-all episode, that the first 20 years of her marriage were not particularlyhappy ones. If the Brown family was hoping to show viewers that their union wascollaborative and comfortable, they managed to do the exact opposite.

The Browns onceinsisted that all decisions must be made as a family, but in the last twoseasons of the show, fans have noticed that the Browns might not operate thatway. Thefamilys move from Las Vegas to Flagstaff, Arizona, and all that has transpiredsince the move, appears to highlight a severe imbalance of power.

Fans strongly believeKody bullied at least two of his wives into making a move to appease his fourth,and now legal wife. Flagstaff, where the family currently resides, fits inperfectly with Robyns plans for her eldest child, Dayton Brown, but seemed to impactthe others negatively. Why did they move then? Seemingly, because Kody wantedto.

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Kristyn Decker, whois directly related to Christine, has spoken out against polygamy, stating thatthe entire practice is rife with abuse and is built on a complete imbalance ofpower. Decker, herself, left polygamy. She has now spent years speaking outagainst the practice and has dropped some tidbits about the Brown family, inspecific, to RadarOnline.

During the firstseason of Sister Wives, the Browns repeatedly stated that theyworked as one, large, happy family. The wives even suggested that theirfriendship with one another was just as important as their individualrelationships with their shared husband. Many seasons later, and its clearthat is not the case.

The familys book, BecomingSister Wives, even highlightedthe tension that exists within the family. Janelle and Meri could barely standto be in the same room together, and Christine has suggested Meri makes heruncomfortable. Christine and Robyn also appeared to start off with a frosty relationship,and little has been done to strengthen that friendship. The idea of sharing alarge house again almost sent Christine into an epic meltdown.

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Decker hassuggested that the Brown wives were never actually friends, and friendship betweensister wives is incredibly uncommon within sects that practice plural marriage.At best, it seems some of the wives have a lukewarm understanding. At worst,they cant stand each other.

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'Sister Wives': The One Thing The Brown Family Has Taught Fans About Polygamy - Showbiz Cheat Sheet