Sister Wives ' Janelle Says Kody & Robyn's Courtship Wasn't Appropriate

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16-06-2025

Originally appeared on E! Online
Sometimes size really does matter.
At least when it comes to the length of a relationship. Because while hindsight is 20/20, Sister Wives star Janelle Brown feels that if she'd had a bit more time to date Kody Brown before their 1993 vows, she may not have become the polygamist's second wife.
"If I had a year with Kody, I'm not sure I would have married him, honestly," she revealed to host Sukanya Krishnan during the final installment of the TLC series' one-on-one special June 15. "I might have seen him for a little bit more of who he was, you know what I mean? Gotten sort of off the charm ride."
Instead, reasoned the 56-year-old, who shares Logan Brown, 31, , 29, Hunter Brown, 28, Gabriel Brown, 23, and , 20, and her late son Garrison with the father of 18, she was taken by the saleman's "charisma" and hung on for nearly 30 years before announcing their split in 2022.
"Regardless, I don't need to go back and trash everything that was," noted Janelle. "If I were to say, 'Oh, I'm really sorry I did all that,' would I be in this great place?"
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And even if she could have logged more time with the Wyoming native, it doesn't mean she should have, considering he was already married to Meri Brown at the time. (Kody's first wife announced their breakup in 2022 while third wife Christine Brown revealed they'd split in 2021.)
While dating as a married man is a necessity in polygamy, Kody and his fourth—and sole remaining—wife Robyn Brown "had a very long courtship compared to the rest of us," Janelle noted. "It is not really appropriate for a married man to have a long courtship."
And yet, she continued, he and the divorcée—already mom to Dayton Brown, Aurora Brown and Breanna Brown at that point—"actually courted, I think, for almost a year."
Though to hear Kody tell it, he only needed a split second to know Robyn was his forever person.
Describing their inital charged interaction at church—"We locked eyes and I couldn't break away," Kody has said—the patriarch noted that he fell hard after they shared a first dance.
"I'm talking to her like we've known each other our whole lives," Kody described of the moment that took place with Christine and Meri in the room. "The kind of safety combined with just the depth of connection, she's very vulnerable and I was at the time and we just, there was a depth of connection that I do not believe I have ever had."
He knew pretty quickly that his feelings were more intense than the ones he'd shared with his previous three spouses.
"I noticed a marked difference from the beginning," acknowledged Kody. "I had no intentions of shifting away from it."
And though he calls the idea that he and Robyn only wanted each other "Internet B.S." and "crappy commentary on our family," he admitted the connection was strong.
As he recalled, "I'm sitting there with my journal going, 'God, what's going on? I'm already in love. I already have three wives.'"
The intensity of his early courtship with Robyn—"I fell in love hard"—is just one truth Kody has shared this season.
See what else he and his wives have recently divulged on the TLC series.
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