RECAP: ‘Sister Wives’ Christine Gets Engaged, Ysabel Cries For A Daddy, Robyn Plays Victim Again!
The November 17 episode of Sister Wives, delivers a heavy dose of drama, tears, and awkward encounters. From Christine Brown navigating her new life with David Woolley to Meri Brown closing the door on her decades-long marriage, the episode is packed with emotional highs and lows.
Christine and David: New Love, New Beginnings
The episode kicks off with Christine Brown and David Woolley making a stop at Mykelti and Tony Padron’s to babysit — the young parents are on their way out for a much-needed date night. After all, Mykelti has been in full-on mom mode since giving birth to twins, and Christine knows a thing or two about managing chaos.
Christine reflects on the recent introduction of Kody Brown to David at Gwendlyn’s engagement party. The memory of that awkward encounter is still fresh.
“It was honestly fine. I was out of control stressed out about all of it,” Kody Brown confesses.
While Christine was sweating bullets over the introduction, David was cool as a cucumber, even expressing excitement about meeting Kody and Robyn.
“I was nervous,” Christine admits, “but David was really looking forward to meeting Kody and Robyn.”
Despite their short time together, Christine and David are already making big moves — literally. Christine reveals they’ve bought a house together, much to the shock of her kids. The new place is conveniently located near Mykelti’s home and David’s daughter’s house.
Christine can’t help but compare David to Kody.
“He’s so handy!” she gushes, adding that David has already started mapping out plans for the backyard. “Kody never completed tasks around the house. David gets things done.”
But the trip down memory lane isn’t all sunshine and roses. Christine recalls the early years of her marriage to Kody when she found herself juggling Gwendlyn and Gabriel, who were born just four days apart. With Janelle Brown back at work, Christine essentially became a full-time mom to two newborns.
Meri Completes the ‘List’ But Kody Still Walks Away
Meanwhile, in Parowan, Utah, Meri Brown is deep in preparation for her move from Flagstaff to focus on her bed-and-breakfast, Lizzie’s Heritage Inn. Painting the inn’s interior gives her plenty of time to reflect on her tumultuous 32-year marriage to Kody.
In a conversation with her best friend Jenn Sullivan and Jenn’s husband, Meri opens up about the hoops Kody made her jump through over the years.
“He’s like, ‘Can you do this? And then, we can work on a relationship,’” Meri shares.
She reveals that Kody had given her a “list” of tasks to complete as a condition for saving their marriage. And yet, even after checking off every item, Kody was done.
“Once I completed that list, he was done [with me],” Meri explains in her confessional. “I recognize now that he was like, there’s nothing else I can ask. There’s no other thing I can use as an excuse of why I’m not working on this marriage with her because I had done everything that he asked of me.”
Despite officially being single, Meri isn’t rushing back into the dating world.
“I’ve been single for like a month,” she tells Jenn.
“Or, 10 years,” Jenn quips, referencing the platonic nature of Meri and Kody’s relationship for the better part of the last decade, especially after her infamous catfishing scandal.
Later, Meri drops by Kody and Robyn’s home to announce her plans to move sooner than expected. But she doesn’t leave without a parting shot.
“I was wondering if you’d be willing to help me load some stuff,” Meri asks Kody. “And then would you be interested in driving a truck up there for me? Call it my severance package.”
Kody is visibly taken aback.
“On what? Our marriage?” he asks, his confusion palpable.
In his confessional, Kody struggles to decipher the tone of Meri’s request.
“It’s a weird space to be with the severance package thing because I don’t know if this is passive aggressive or if it’s just aggressive,” he says, “or if it’s a joke and I don’t know. And I haven’t known my whole marriage.”
Meri is candid about her reasoning.
“I failed to ask for alimony when we got the legal divorce, so I’m kind of out that,” she explains in her confessional. “I put 30 years into this, like, help me move and get out of here, then we’ll just be good to go. We’ll call it even, I guess. I don’t know.”
Robyn: The Perpetual Victim
Robyn Brown takes center stage to air her grievances about her relationships with Christine and Janelle. She accuses the two women of failing to support her in her role as Kody’s wife.
“I saw these other plural wives and other families have this bond, you know, have each other’s backs, and I wanted that,” Robyn says through tears.
She goes on to claim that there’s been a “campaign” against her.
“I mean, I’ve definitely felt like some of my sister wives haven’t had my back,” she says. “There’s days when I just want to scream at everyone and just say, ‘You guys, what the heck?’”
Robyn’s sense of betrayal is palpable, but her comments seem to fall flat, especially given her perceived status as Kody’s favorite.
Ysabel’s Tearful Confession
Christine’s daughter Ysabel shares her fears about David stepping into a fatherly role.
“He won’t try to replace Dad, right?” she asks Christine.
Christine reassures her daughter that David has no intention of replacing Kody.
“If you need a father figure, David will be whatever you need,” Christine says.
But Ysabel can’t shake the fear that her already strained relationship with Kody will continue to deteriorate.
“I worry that my dad and the chance of having a really close relationship with him is slowly going away,” she admits, tears streaming down her face.
Christine empathizes with Ysabel’s struggles, acknowledging that her daughter has always wanted a stronger bond with Kody.
David Pops the Question
The episode ends on a high note for Christine as David proposes during a getaway in Moab, Utah. Christine is visibly shocked and overjoyed.
“I’ve never felt like this before,” Christine gushes. “Never been this much in love either.”
She doesn’t hold back when comparing her past relationship with Kody to her current one.
“I never loved Kody as much as I love David,” she confesses. “Never.”
David’s proposal is everything Christine could have hoped for.
“Everything that he said was absolutely beautiful and perfect. It was a perfect day,” she says, practically glowing.
Sister Wives continues to air Sundays, at 10 p.m. ET, on TLC.
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