There’s no love lost between Christine Brown and her former husband.
That’s what she tells host Sukanya “Suki” Krishnan about the sad end to her marriage to ex Kody on Sunday’s edition of Sister Wives: One on One: Part 3.
“For a long time it was just fun and it was just a blast, you know, we just had a lot of good times,” she said in a preview clip shared to the TLC Instagram account. “When he married Robyn, that’s where I was like, ‘Oh, there definitely is something missing here,’ but at that point it was already, like, so almost over anyway.
“But it wasn’t a real, true intimacy. There wasn’t taking care of me emotionally, romantically, physically, financially, nothing, I was independent at that point.”
Kody spiritually married Robyn in 2010, 16 years after his and Christine’s union and 11 years before Christine left. During those last years together, Christine said the sex was infrequent and felt like an obligation.
“We didn’t talk about it, no, did not talk about it because we both knew there was something lacking and something missing. When you have sex five times in a year, you realize there’s a problem, you know, it’s like, ‘Do we really want to talk about it?’
Suki suggested that the couple’s infrequent sex probably became a “a marital obligation.”
“Probably for both of us. Yeah. Sad,” Christine responded. “The sex was never … God, it was just so broken.”
Christine admitted that she and Kody failed to discuss their intimacy issues.
“We had one conversation on intimacy and it was like, ‘Are we going to have any kind of intimacy, sex in our marriage?’ and he was like, ‘No,’ and so the next time he came over I’m like, ‘You’re done, you’re not staying here anymore, I don’t want you in my bed, we’re done,’” she said in the preview clip.
Christine and Kody announced their split in November 2021 after more than 25 years and six children together. In a ‘Sister Wives’ episode that aired in January 2022, Christine shared how she felt when her husband said he no longer wanted to have an “intimate marriage.”
“I’m not OK with staying in a marriage where there’s no intimacy,” she said. “That’s not a real marriage. I’m not interested in a half-marriage or a partial marriage or whatever we have.”
In another preview clip shared by TLC, Janelle and Christine detailed how Kody would do things like withholding intimacy to purposely hurt exes.
“He’s attacked all of his wives that are leaving in the area that hurts them the most, or that they pride or that they value, right,” Janelle said. “For Christine it was devastating that he wasn’t physically attracted to her, and for me, I’m one of those people who wants to be very fiscally responsible, I’m very about, ‘Let’s be responsible with our money,’ and so he wants to, like, sort of undermine that or try to undermine that for me.”
Christine agreed with Janelle’s assessment in her interview.
“He knows the buttons to push, so with me it was like, ‘No, we’re not going to be intimate anymore.’ Then he would be like, ‘Well, you know, you could do this and you could do this and you could do this,’ and put it all on everybody else,” she said.
“He knows how to push the buttons but he doesn’t know how to take accountability for the fact that he just pushed a button.”
At the time of their split, Christine said that Kody blamed her for the romantic issues in their relationship.
“He goes, ‘I’m not interested in having an intimate marriage anymore. I don’t like your behavior. We’ll see if you can be a good sister wife,’” she said in a January 2022 episode of ‘Sister Wives.’
Married to David Woolley since October 2023, Christine no longer has to deal with a husband withholding loving intimacy from her.
“David has kind of come in and fixed all of that, and she feels loved,” Janelle said in a special episode about Christine and David’s wedding, as recapped by The Ashley. “She feels seen, she feels attractive. She feels all of the things you should feel with your spouse. It’s kind of come to this nice, happy ending right here.”
‘Sister Wives: One on One: Part 4′ airs June 15. Before tonight’s episode, read The Ashley’s recaps of Part One and Part Two.
(Photos: Instagram; TLC)
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Now, I don’t watch this show much, but it’s obvious to me that Christine is the cancer that brought down the entire house. She is jelly, plain and simple, so she burned it all down and found a simp to be with her mid ass. Sad woman.
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Ye gods. Enough of Christine and her slobbering over David’s face. She chose to be wife #3 and have 6 kids. Shut Sister Wives down once and for all.
U clearly are very bored with your life .
Surely you jest? Christine embarrassed her kids with her slobbering on David’s face. No. I am not bored with my life. Apparently you are as you need Christine to entertain you.
Apart from the monetary compensation, I don’t know why any of them want to drag this show on any longer. It’s the same old, same old. Grody is a weirdo and a narcissist. Three of his four wives left him and are living their own lives and pursuing their own interests. The majority of the children are adults and live independently. It’s redundant, a weekly rehash of the reasons why the marriages failed and past grievances and perceived slights.
Exactly. How many different ways can we see Robyn and Kody being evasive and never taking accountability. IRL most people walk away and these sort of people are led to babble about their victim hood to their next target. In this universe they are paid to hoard ugly art and dolls for viewership. This might be the end of the road for me unless it becomes a show about the 3 ladies loving and living their best lives. Robyn and Kody can be on their own boring ass show about how deep and sexual they are that they are the envy of their adult infantilized children, the Victorian ghost child who lives with them and Areola.
I’d watch any show about Janelle 2.0 living her best life! She’s so funny and honest. She just drops a truth bomb, shrugs and moves on, it’s great!
I would watch the child support court episodes.
Jenelle should get a Spritual Release because man that pissed him off when Meri did.
Didn’t read the article, I am so sick of her talking about Kody, move the F on Christine. It is for this reason I can’t stand her anymore.
You know she’s on a TV show answering questions they asked her about Kodi right?
Right. Like what else are they supposed to talk about?!?! She’s answering the host’s questions and giving the viewers the very details they were craving after years of them all keeping sweet.
BS, she puts out more stories about her and Kody than any host has ever asked her about.LTSIB
I think that once you’re removed from a bad situation, you begin to see it more clearly. I think that’s where she is. Once she gets through putting it all in perspective, I’m sure it’ll become something she thinks about much less often.
I feel like she’s still processing as well. There were likely so many things she never even knew about monogamous relationships. I’ve been with my husband 35+ years. If we broke up for any reason, it’d probably take some time to work through and heal. Christine is still learning about life outside their cult and esp about relationships. While her talking about the same old stuff week after week is annoying as shit, I doubt in her daily life that she really ever mentions Kody except to the kids or in passing. UNTIL it’s time to film & then they ask all the questions we’ve wanted answered and the OG3 are finally giving us the honesty they never did while together. So I do enjoy getting that piece of things but can completely agree that it seems like all she can do is talk about what was, I also know that production is behind all of it. Not sure why people think she’s continuing to discuss her & Kody’s marriage bc she wants to. I think she doesn’t mind bc it’s for the show but again, I don’t think she gives it this much energy IRL. I may be totally off base but seems kind of obvious to me that the show is steering the conversations where they want them 🤷🏻♀️
She has been removed from her bad situation for a long time, so I guess next the year will be 2050 and the headlines will read SINCE CHRISTINE BROWN WAS REMOVED FROM A BAD SITUATION, SHE CAN SEE IT MORE CLEARLY NOW.