Sister Wives: Why Fans Think Kody Forced His Wives To Hide Their Emotions

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Meri, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn Brown have all had their fair share of meltdowns throughout their run in Sister Wives, but fans suspect Kody Brown encouraged his spouses to be as emotionally repressed as possible. With every season the Brown family starred in Sister Wives, Kody become more controlling and absent from his wives' lives, and although his first trio of spouses surely wanted to express their frustrations, fans think they knew to keep their feelings to themselves. From Meri's devastating advice for Christine to Kody's manipulative tendencies, here's why Sister Wives fans think Kody forced his wives to hide their emotions.

Unfortunately, Kody's wives had to do whatever they could to survive the low points of their plural marriage. As Sister Wives' audience knows well, there were plenty of low points in Kody's polygamous family for his first three wives ever since Robyn joined the Brown clan in 2010. Once Kody's fourth wife was initiated into his plural marriage, the patriarch poured all of his affection into his relationship with Robyn, leaving only crumbs of attention for Meri, Janelle, and Christine. Sadly, the trio of wives didn't have the best coping mechanisms available to them while in relationships with Kody. Instead of working through their problems like a family, Sister Wives fans think Kody forced his wives to hide their emotions.

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It didn't take long for Meri, Janelle, and Christine to notice that Robyn Brown was the apple of Kody's eye, and although jealousy is an expected consequence of polygamous relationships, Kody and Robyn's relationship was a difficult pill for the original sister wives to swallow. Instead of