Sister Wives’ Kody Brown: Why I’m ‘Not Talking’ to Sons Gabe and Garrison

At a standstill. Kody Brown isn’t in place together with his and Janelle Brown’s sons Gabriel Brown and Garrison Brown after they argued over the household’s strict COVID-19 guidelines.

“[We’re] not good. Not speaking,” the 52-year-old actuality TV star says in Us Weekly’s unique sneak peek of the Sunday, February 6, episode of Sister Wives: One on One. “It’s like a type of relationships the place we’ve gotta do lots of work.”

In the course of the second a part of the One on One tell-all particular, Kody explains to host Sukanya Krishnan how fractured his relationships with 23-year-old Garrison (whose full title is Robert Garrison) and 21-year-old Gabe have turn out to be since he gave the boys an ultimatum about their social lives amid the coronavirus pandemic.

“I make guidelines, you guys abide by them. I perceive that these two wanted their social lives. I completely get it. However on this case, COVID is completely different,” the Wyoming native says within the clip, reflecting on what went fallacious. “It’s modified all the pieces for everyone, and so they need all of it to be the identical.”

The plural household patriarch — who additionally shares sons Logan, 27, and Hunter, 24, and daughters Maddie, 26, and Savannah, 17, with second wife Janelle, 52 — explains that his two youngest boys didn’t perceive that to ensure that him to go to their household, they couldn’t hold going out with mates.

“They should understand that they need to go and date that girlfriend, that’s nice, however it is advisable transfer out of the home so I will be residence,” Kody provides.

Earlier this season, followers noticed Kody attempt to lay down the regulation with Gabe particularly throughout a January episode of Sister Wives.

On the time, the daddy of 18 revealed that if Gabe wished to maintain seeing his girlfriend, then Kody can be pressured to avoid all of Janelle’s children as a result of danger of spreading the virus from home to deal with.

“The true challenge right here is, you had to decide on between me coming over or seeing your girlfriend,” Kody advised Gabe within the January 16 episode, which prompted the younger man to tear up. “Why? Why was I made to make that call?” Gabe stated, later noting, “My household is so targeted on being proper that that is ruining my household.”

Trying again on the scene throughout Sunday’s tell-all, Kody admits that he nonetheless seems like he wasn’t being revered by his boys in Janelle’s residence. That pressure, nevertheless, has prompted him to have main points together with his sons.

“We’d like remedy. I want a sit-down with my boys and get one thing straight,” Kody says to Krishnan. “I’ve gotten to the purpose the place I’m so offended about what occurred that we’re not speaking. And I feel they’re too.”

Along with his religious marriage with Janelle, who he’s been with since 1993, Kody is spiritually married to Meri Brown and legally wed to Robyn Brown. He and wife Christine Brown introduced their separation in November 2021 after greater than 25 years collectively.

Sister Wives airs on TLC Sundays at 10 p.m. ET.