Kody Brown Says He Had ‘Special Requirements’ for Janelle and Christine Before They Joined the Family (Exclusive)

Kody Brown reveals the conditions he gave his wives before they joined his family.

In PEOPLE’s exclusive sneak peek of Sunday’s episode Sister wivesKody opens up about some of the “special demands” he’s come to expect from his ex-wives Janelle and Christine Brown, and admits he’s been too thinly spread among his four wives.

While speaking to the cameras, Kody introduces a term called “holy loneliness,” which is used to describe women in multiple marriages because “their husbands aren’t around as much.”

“Holy loneliness? Like you’re supposed to respect the fact that you’re lonely?” Christine laughs as she reacts to Kody’s statement.

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The cast of ‘Sister Wives’. Bryant Livingston/TLC/Everett

Janelle says of the term, “The idea is that you’re sacrificing some of your emotional needs because you want to live in a polygamous marriage… I always thought that was so stupid. I’m sorry.”

Meri then reflects on this, noting that she often hears Kody talk about the difficulties women face in polygamy and adds, “Really, you get it now?”

But Robyn says, “Yes, polygamy can be lonely. In my mind, it’s an opportunity to have a relationship with God.”

In another scene, while talking to David Mitchell “Mitch” Thompson, Kody notes the emotional difficulties that women can face in multiple marriages, but admits that he was “tired of hearing about the struggle” and notes that “they all agreed that do it.”

Mitch notes in the confessional that until you’re “sitting in a seat and being a guy who’s had four wives and trying to meet the emotional, spiritual, physical, mental needs of four women,” it’s hard to talk about it with confidence. “There’s an arrogance that comes with being judgmental,” he points out.

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Christine Brown and Janelle Brown.

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But in his own confessional, Kody tries to defend himself.

“I courted Meri and Robyn, but Christine and Janelle both asked if they could be in the family,” he explains. “And with that inquiry, I had some special requirements that I wanted them to fulfill in order to enter the family, and mostly it was that there would be other women, you have to commit to me.”

Janelle, on the other hand, clarifies Kody’s claims about how she and Christine asked to join the family and notes that the duo “deserved no less” than his fourth wife Robyn, who was “invited.”

“It’s inappropriate for a man to be out looking for women,” she says. “It’s generally a woman [that] he approaches the family and says, ‘Look, I feel like I’ve had a spiritual revelation that I might belong in your family.’ Now she keeps saying how Christine and I asked to be in the family and Robyn was invited.”

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She adds: “Because Christine and I asked, we deserve less [and] should we be satisfied with what we have? It wasn’t like we were begging to be in the family. We simply asked, there was a courtship and then we all got married.”

Christine first announced that she was leaving the polygamous union in November 2021. During Sister wives: one on one specifically in December 2022, both Meri Brown and Janelle revealed that they were both separated from the patriarch of the Brown family. Robyn Brown remains the only wife still married to Kody.

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Sister wives airs Sundays at 10pm ET on TLC.

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