<p id=”par-1_53″><em><a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/sister-wives/”>Sister Wives</a></em> Kody Brown’s negativity toward his ex-wives and their children has deeply affected their relationships. Kody is disliked for not only his negative reactions, but lack of action toward mending fences with his family. This behavior allowed him to become perhaps the worst husband and father ever seen on reality TV. </p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-1-kody-brown-discarded-his-wives-after-marrying-robyn-brown”>1. Kody Brown discarded his wives after marrying Robyn Brown</h2>
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<p id=”par-2_43″>During the early seasons of TLC’s <em>Sister Wives</em>, the Browns were depicted as a cohesive family unit. Kody was their goofy and caring patriarch. He believed in polygamy and appeared to have a clear affection for wives Meri, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn Brown.</p>
<p id=”par-3_29″>However, as history has revealed itself, Kody was anything but. The events pictured in the show were an effort to make the family look better than it was functioning.</p>
<p id=”par-4_54″>It has since been discussed at length by Janelle and Christine Brown, and some of their adult children, that Kody abandoned them once <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/sister-wives-robyn-brown-innocent-saint-kody-brown-project.html/?swcfpc=1″>he married Robyn</a>. Christine once said during a <em>Sister Wives</em> 2023 tell-all, “I feel like to Kody, Robyn’s more important, certainly than I am. I know it and everybody knows it.”</p>
<p id=”par-5_24″>She added, “It’s sad and it sucks, but my relationship with Kody isn’t as important. It’s not. No matter what he says it isn’t.”</p>
<p id=”par-6_47″>However, Robyn and Kody maintained he was a good father and husband, and it was his wives’ fault that he never spent time with them. Robyn agreed in a TLC tell-all episode; “They handed him to me and said ‘We don’t want to spend time with him.”</p>
<p id=”par-7_33″>Kody made a statement regarding Meri, but true to all his <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/sister-wives-meri-brown-regrets-1-thing-legal-divorce-kody-brown.html/?swcfpc=1″>broken marriages</a>, “Don’t blame me for not loving you. I was doing my duty. Blame yourself if I don’t love you, OK?”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-2-kody-brown-blames-his-kids-for-broken-relationships”>2. Kody Brown blames his kids for broken relationships </h2>
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<p id=”par-8_33″>Some of Janelle and Christine’s children have spoken out about their father’s abandonment. Those who have been public in their comments against Kody include Gwendolyn, Maddie, Garrison, Ysabel, Gabriel, Paedon, and Mykelti Brown.</p>
<p id=”par-9_54″>“Some people think that parental-child relationships don’t have to be reciprocal, but <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/sister-wives-kody-brown-loved-his-kids-harder-relate-adults-janelle-brown.html/?swcfpc=1″>when they’re adults</a>, yes they do,” said Maddie during an episode of her podcast <a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDqNAhNhVLg” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”><em>The Authentic Society</em></a>. She continued, “He doesn’t have any respect for boundaries, and you have to play by his rules, and I just don’t care to do that.”</p>
<p id=”par-10_62″>Garrison shared his feelings in a Season 18 episode, saying, “We’ve reached out and tried to be open, but it’s been neglected and overlooked for offenses that were believed to have happened but they never did.” Paedon told John Yates in a <a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xyLJSINhKw” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>YouTube</a> interview that Kody was trying to censor the older children from speaking out against him or they would be sued.</p>
<p id=”par-11_52″>Ysabel expressed in a season 18 episode of <em>Sister Wives</em> that her relationship with her dad had “never been 100% solid.” Mykelti shared on her Patreon that she and her siblings need Kody to say “I’m sorry. I know what I did wrong, how can I fix it, what can I do?” </p>
<p id=”par-12_61″>Finally, Gwendyln Brown exclaimed on a YouTube video, “Oh my God, imagine your father loving you,” while Gabriel Brown said that Kody wanted him to apologize for the issues in their relationship. He told his mother, Janelle, “Eventually, I was just like, ‘Hey, unless you’re, like, actually ready to have a relationship and fix things, then we’re not going to talk anymore.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-3-kody-lacks-accountability-for-his-mistakes”>3. Kody lacks accountability for his mistakes</h2>
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<p id=”par-13_36″>Part of the reason Kody Brown is so disliked is that he lacks basic accountability. He is uncaring, demeaning, and disrespectful toward most of his family members, and takes no responsibility for his actions or remarks.</p>
<p id=”par-14_40″>Instead of addressing problems by listening and responding in kind, Kody lashes out. He is convinced that the women are “trash-talking” him to his children. Therefore, he can’t have a relationship with them if they have been reportedly poisoned against him.</p>
<p id=”par-15_29″>Kody Brown has often been caught on-camera talking badly about all his wives, except for Robyn Brown. He called Janelle Brown “lazy” and <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/sister-wives-kody-brown-calls-janelle-a-victim-robyn-role.html/?swcfpc=1″>a “victim” </a>during heated arguments. </p>
<p id=”par-16_29″>He blamed Meri for the dissolution of their marriage. Kody said, “You know what really sucks? It’s not divorce that sucks. What sucks is marrying the wrong person.” </p>
<p id=”par-17_43″>Of Christine, Kody told TLC’s cameras, “I feel so betrayed after all that I’ve done for this marriage. And then to have her s*** talk me to the kids; I kinda feel like in my heart, I never want to see her again.”</p>
<p id=”par-18_10″><em>Sister Wives</em> airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on TLC.</p>