How Sister Wives’ Christine Brown Celebrated 1st Valentine’s Day Submit-Break up

Me time! Christine Brown leaned on her family members — and celebrated herself — on her first Valentine’s Day since splitting from husband Kody Brown.

“HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!” the 49-year-old actuality star wrote through Instagram on Monday, February 14, alongside a solo snap. The Sister Wives star reminded her followers to “take a break from this loopy world and deal with household at the moment!”

The TLC persona, who was all smiles whereas sporting an orange sweatsuit and a floral jacket, added the hashtags: “#valentines #valentinesday #focus.”

Christine’s empowering message got here three months after she introduced that she and Kody, 53, had parted methods.

“After greater than 25 years collectively, Kody and I’ve grown aside and I’ve made the troublesome resolution to go away,” Christine wrote through Instagram in November 2021. “We are going to proceed to be a robust presence in one another’s lives as we father or mother our lovely youngsters and help our fantastic household.”

The Utah native spiritually married Kody in March 1994, turning into his third wife. He legally wed Meri Brown in 1990 and spiritually tied the knot with Janelle Brown in 1993. Kody later divorced Meri, 51, to legally marry Robyn Brown in 2014 and undertake her three youngsters from a earlier relationship. He stays spiritually concerned along with his first wife.

“Christine’s resolution to go away comes with an excessive amount of disappointment. We loved a few years collectively and I’ve a considerable amount of respect and admiration for her,” Kody wrote in his personal assertion addressing his and Christine’s breakup on the time. “Though we’re shifting ahead on totally different paths, we are going to all the time stay dedicated mother and father.”

Followers of the TLC sequence, which follows the polygamist way of life of the Brown household, noticed Christine and Kody’s relationship hit a breaking level throughout the season 15 finale, which aired in April 2021. Their rocky romance continued to play out on season 16.

The estranged spouses — who share son Paedon, 23 and daughters Aspyn, 26, Mykelti, 25, Gwendlyn, 20, Ysabel, 18, and Truely, 11 — mentioned the place they stand now throughout the three-part Sister Wives: One on One tell-all particular, which started airing final month.

“It’s not enjoyable breaking individuals’s hearts. At my core, I simply need individuals to be completely satisfied,” Christine mentioned throughout the February 6 episode, referring to the hardship of distancing herself from the household post-split. “It tore me aside. It was tremendous, tremendous unhappy. Kody and I are divorced. We’re fully separate.”

Nonetheless, in terms of their non secular ties, Christine and Kody are nonetheless spiritually married — a scenario that Kody doesn’t plan on altering anytime quickly.

“Kody wouldn’t undergo with a ‘religious divorce’ from Christine,” a supply completely instructed Us Weekly final month. “He left her on her personal to make peace with the separation — it was her and God, not her and Kody.”

The Wyoming native hasn’t had a “formal ceremony at a church” to indicate the tip of his and Christine’s religious union. “He wouldn’t give Christine — or any of his different wives for that matter — the courtesy of going together with [a formal ceremony] since he feels betrayed,” the insider mentioned, including that the patriarch has “turn into extra offended and bitter” lately.

Christine, for her half, doesn’t agree with the establishment’s views about her private life.

“In our church, polygamous ladies can depart. They aren’t trapped. I haven’t been a member of that church for a very long time, I left a very long time in the past,” she mentioned throughout the February tell-all particular. “I don’t actually care. I feel that God’s high quality if I simply need to be completely satisfied.”