Meri is my favorite wife. I've never once thought about Robyn being autistic or their sexuality.

I do feel like the other wives and Kody have 'punished' Meri harshly because she is direct and matter of fact. Basically, I see it as ostracizing her or punishing her for not performing her femininity correctly. A lot of it's been underhanded and oblique. She can be abrupt, but abrupt is not rude or uncaring. She has a dominant personality.

Basically, all the things I really like about Meri are what she gets chastized for in one way or another. Like, of the 4, I feel like she and I could hang and I'd be comfortable enough around her to have a rip roaring good time. The others? Not so much.

I think you're spot on about the divorce, but I also think she was pushed toward it by the others which seems to be on trend. She seems to need a while to think things through and they immediately start pressuring her to 'get on board'. When she resists or looks I to it and finds pitfalls or asks questions about intent, she gets accused of selfishness.

I'm glad she's abandoned hope that she and Kody can reconcile. She's made it clear how important that covenant is to her, spiritually, and she's really clung in there. But you can't be the only one and sadly, she's allowed that desire to cloud her usual good sense that would show her how Kody has been stringing her along for years.

Man, I could write volumes, but I'm on lunch and don't have time.

More succinctly, Janelle is the only one who didn't grow up in polygamy so she's the only one it's not normalized for. It's odd to me that given that, she wants to still be married but for him to be elsewhere. You may be right about her being asexual. Seems like the status of being married is more important to her than Kody or the marriage. But I've missed a lot, so that may not be accurate.

I should say, I generally try to stay away from most reality TV shows because they're so problematic. That said, I'm human and they do have an appeal. Lot of people enjoy warching trainwrecks. Sister Wives is one I can't seem to help myself on. Naked and Afraid is the other one.

Robyn is my least favorite. I find her incredibly manipulative. Up until recently, I thought the current season would end with her leaving too because she's repeatedly said things that made it clear she wanted the sister wives and Kody was just a bonus. But word on the internet is that after the others bailed, Kody started talking about taking on more wives and now Robyn is suddenly singing a different tune. Monogamy is grand! That suggests that she was fully aware of and plotting usurping the others for a losition of primacy an now she doesn't want a younger woman doing that to her. That tracks as more sociopathic behavior than autistic behavior because as I understand it, autistics have a hard time lying. Low grade, I'm not saying she's Hannibal Lecter or Donald Trump. I'm not even saying she is a sociopath. I'm saying if we were playing pin the tail on the behavior, that's where I'd stick that one rather than on the autism donkey. More what you'd expect from a sociopath than an autistic, in other words.

I'm out of time.

Kody's a jerk. That Paula Abdul song comes to mind. Cold Hearted Snake.

Christine's ark is super interesting. Christinr and Janelle post Kody are making a stellar point. The biggest problem with polygamy is that the dufus men are choosing the wives. If men are going to be hypergamous, constantly chasing after younger, "prettier" fresher fruit, then women would be better off marrying each other for mutual support in raising children. At least then, you'd know you can count on your partner.