Kody Brown was married to 4 girls on the similar time, however in the case of his children, he firmly believes in chastity.
“I say to those younger males, nearly at all times your job is to guard my daughter, even from your self,” Kody stated in the course of the Sunday, October 26, episode of Sister Wives after assembly 23-year-old daughter Aurora's new boyfriend, Brodie Utley, for the primary time.
Kody, 56, revealed that from his perspective, “If you're simply relationship, you're kissing one other man's spouse till she's your spouse. And if she doesn't turn out to be your spouse, you're kissing one other man's spouse.”
The daddy of 18 additional defined, “That is the explanation that I consider in chastity … don't take one thing away from them that doesn't belong to you.”
Through the episode, Kody grilled Brodie over his potential to look at over Aurora, whom he had been relationship for just some months. (Brodie and Aurora celebrated one yr of relationship in September, according to social media.)
“Should you love my daughter, you then'll love her as a lot as I cherished her mom, and I saved my palms off of her until we had been married,” Kody claimed throughout a confessional, referring to fourth spouse Robyn Brown, who's Aurora's mother.
Robyn shares Aurora, Dayton, 25, and Breanna, 21, together with her first husband. She additionally shares son Solomon, 13, and daughter Ariella, 9, with Kody, whom she legally wed in 2014 after turning into spiritually united 4 years prior. After Robyn and Kody bought legally married, he adopted her eldest youngsters.
Kody advised the cameras on Sunday's episode, “Once we had been older, I had an outlet. I [was] nonetheless loving [on] my wives, however we didn't have an actual bodily connection till we had been married.” (He was married to Meri Brown, Janelle Brown and Christine Brown when he started courting Robyn, 47.)
Aurora, in the meantime, continued to brighten the household Christmas tree as her boyfriend was interrogated by her dad.
“I simply assume it's humorous as a result of after some time it's clear that my dad's speaking about chastity, form of,” Aurora stated. “And I can inform that Brodie's very a lot interested by techniques. ‘I understand how to make use of knives. I'm skilled in combined martial arts. She's good, sir.'”
Kody proceeded to inform Brodie that the “greatest form of relationship” is one the place if you happen to break up you'll be able to “nonetheless be associates” since you didn't cross the intimacy line.
“I really feel like I'm extra discriminating now than I used to be with [Mykelti's husband] Tony. Than I used to be with [Aspyn's husband] Mitch, and than I used to be with [Maddie's husband] Caleb,” Kody confessed. “I simply was much less discriminating. Now it's a completely completely different story. I've gone by way of three divorces.”
Kody added that when his eldest daughters bought married, he was in a distinct headspace. He shares Mykelti, 29, and Aspyn, 30, with Christine, in addition to 4 different children, and shares Maddie, 29, with Janelle, who mothered six of his children.
After splitting from Christine, 53, Janelle, 56, and Meri, 54, in 2021, 2022 and 2023, respectively, he has turn out to be extra vital of who comes into his children' lives.
“The issue was within the tradition I got here from, if at 22 I'm going regular with any person, it's as a result of we're going to get married,” Kody recalled. “Simply each expertise that I had was like, I knew inside a number of days, perhaps a number of weeks of relationship that it was good or not. After which afterward in my life, 25, 30 years later, I used to be like, ‘Oh, that wasn't a good suggestion.'”
Sister Wives airs on TLC Sundays at 10 p.m. ET.
