Meri is a product of her environment, and that blame goes to Kody.

This last episode just showed a lot of true colors for Kody I think. He's a manipulative ass.

Janelle and Christine need to move out on their own, Kody can stay with Robyn (who is super needy/naive) and Meri can head her own way.

Moving to Flagstaff was stupid. THey have the perfect set up and it makes zip sense to move the way they did and as fast as they did.

Meri has been alienated but she doesn't do herself any favors. She seems difficult to get along with on practically everything, but isn't always given a fair shake.

I think Robyn is a die hard plural marriage wife and the favorite. She seems to care about the other wives, but it all be fake.

I like Christine alot. She seems the most "normal"

This show gets better (?) by the week. These people are delusional. God is not in charge of the rental market in Flagstaff, AZ! This week we witnessed Robyn's 17 year old (her bio dad is a Jessup OMG) have a massive panic attack on air. She's a minor and TLC should not have allowed us to see this. Kody continues to show us that he is dumb as well as a bully.

Anonymous wrote:I like Meri. I think Kody basically has alienated her with lack of affection for decades and that made her very vulnerable to the cat fishing thing and now Kody blames her for that and takes it as a personal embarrassment. She only had one kid in a culture that prizes children above all. Her sister wives could pump them out regularly and did. And yet, she seems to have very real kind loving relationships with many of their children. She has always worked ( or mostly) bringing money to the family. I think Kody keeps making decisions for her and not with her and that rubs the wrong way. The house plot is an example. Plus, he went about the one house thing all wrong. He should have described it was townhouses where they each had their own home and directly addressed Christine?s issues. With the four separate houses- they will be much further apart than they were in LV and they are not recreating that circle. It will only move them after away from each other emotionally- when they will empty nesters (not Robyn) soon.

I also like Janelle and Christine and Robyn. All of their children seem to be brought up in their faith, but they stilL went to public school and are being allowed to make their own faith decisions. They seem to be excellent parents and raise independent thinking children.

I tend to think this is why Meri stays.

Latest episode: Kody and Robyn have to move bc Robyn's rental has sold. No rentals large enough on the market. Robyn believes that God will make one materialize, while Kody wants to just buy a house bc they have to be out on in 60 days. Also, it seems that the kids all like Flagstaff. The most interesting thing to me was that Robyn really believes that God will intervene in her life to provide her with a large rental house.

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Anonymous wrote:The show needs to end. They all seem so completely miserable with one another, with being married to him, and with this ridiculous move and all of the financial troubles. I feel like every episode this season has been exactly the same talking about how he wants one house and nobody else does.

Right! Need to come up with another angle. I am intrigued with the interesting architecture of Meri's rental house - the waterfall, the elevator, the outdated-ness. That's honestly been the most interesting part of this season for me.

Do you have a favorite SW? They all have some good points, for me. I admire how Christine appears to be so carefree and fun and go-with-the-flow (except for when it comes to living in one house!) Meri does some "over it" in many respects, but something is keeping her there. Not sure if she stays for religious reasons for because she likes the family community. She does seem to be close to some of the kids.

I think Janelle is level-headed and the voice of reason. She is calm, realistic and seems to be the most intelligent of the group. She is not a sad sack of shizz like Meri, not bossy and competitive like Christine and not a whiny crybaby like Robyn. I believe she is the only one to have maintained a professional career throughout their lives also. I think she previously worked in finance or bookkeeping, and is now a real estate agent. I have no idea what Kodi does — I think they are all just living off of the paychecks they and the kids are making from the show, which of course is not good for future planning.

+1. Janelle is the only reason I still watch the show. If she decided to leave Cody, I would totally watch a spinoff with her.

How does this work?
Every wife gets the same amount of space regardless of the number of kids?
Every wife looks after their own kids. The other wife is not a babysitter

That episode gave me insight into why they did not want one house. I always assumed one house would be better - especially since what Kody planned with different townhomes that had their own kitchens and then a big space seemed to meet their needs, but Janelle talking about what a brat Meri was when they lived in one house and how she was always complaining about the noise and kids running made me think that the other wives were more worried about that. Like how annoying to be playing with your kids and have Meri walk through all sour about the noise. I honestly think if it was just Janelle, Christine, and Robyn they would have agreed to the one big house

I like Meri. I think Kody basically has alienated her with lack of affection for decades and that made her very vulnerable to the cat fishing thing and now Kody blames her for that and takes it as a personal embarrassment. She only had one kid in a culture that prizes children above all. Her sister wives could pump them out regularly and did. And yet, she seems to have very real kind loving relationships with many of their children. She has always worked ( or mostly) bringing money to the family. I think Kody keeps making decisions for her and not with her and that rubs the wrong way. The house plot is an example. Plus, he went about the one house thing all wrong. He should have described it was townhouses where they each had their own home and directly addressed Christine’s issues. With the four separate houses- they will be much further apart than they were in LV and they are not recreating that circle. It will only move them after away from each other emotionally- when they will empty nesters (not Robyn) soon.

I also like Janelle and Christine and Robyn. All of their children seem to be brought up in their faith, but they stilL went to public school and are being allowed to make their own faith decisions. They seem to be excellent parents and raise independent thinking children.

Have you guys noticed that the kids have not been in any/much of the last few episodes? I wonder if this is a sign from TLC that the show is winding down. They don’t want to pay salary to the kids to have them on air…