Sister Wives' Robyn Brown Always Feels Like the ‘Bad Guy’ as Kody Calls His Family a Bunch of ‘Jerks’

“We’re still in a deep state of mourning, if you will,” theSister Wivesstar explains. “We are not recovering from this.”

He adds the pair are “a bit depressed” about what happened to the family, adding, “We’ve been through a very hard experience and our reaction to it has changed us. We are not the same.”

Robyn Brown, Meri Brown, Kody Brown, Christine Brown and Janelle Brown from “Sister Wives” arrive at the grand opening of Mike Tyson’s one-man show “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth - Live on Stage”

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“Moving forward is still one of those things where you go through a divorce, you almost feel like God doesn’t exist, and you’re so angry, so bitter, and … you need to let some sunshine back in. That’s the thing,” he adds. “I think we’re just in a transitionary point where I am letting sunshine back in.”

The TLC star says he and his former wives are now in “a different place” as they navigate their own paths to happiness.

“If we are breaking up and we don’t continue seeking happiness and go out and find that happiness, then the breakup was never a benefit,” he shares. “Then you’re living with regret.”

He continues, “But when you first break up, there’s a lot of doubt, especially if you are not the instigator. If you haven’t thought it out enough. If you haven’t been in awareness. I just thought we had killed some trust, and I thought we just needed to build the trust back.”

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Kody also reflected on the aftermath of Christine’s decision to walk away from the marriage. “As time progresses and I move out of the anger phase of that experience, I find myself going, ‘Yes, you need your happiness and you weren’t happy,’" he acknowledges. “It was making me unhappy. We go through this terribly unhappy part, and then we move to happiness. If she’s happy, then I’ll be happy. That’s just it.”

He continues, “It’s like there’s doubt and you wonder and you think, ‘Is this right to break up?’ If everybody finds happiness afterwards, then we’ll know that it was just a part of life, just transitioning to a new space.”

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