Christine Brown couldn’t help but compare her relationship with ex-husband Kody Brown to David Woolley after David proposed in this week’s Sister Wives episode.
“I’ve never felt like this before,” Christine, 52, told the cameras during the Sunday, November 17, episode of the TLC series after viewers watched her proposal to David, 60, play out on screen. “Never been this much in love either.”
Christine then confessed, “I never loved Kody as much as I love David. Was never in love with Kody like I’m in love with David. Never.”
During the episode, David took Christine to Moab, Utah, to see the red rocks and clear skies before dropping down to one knee and asking her to marry him. The proposal, which took place in April 2023, caught Christine totally off guard.
“He’s just so sweet and so romantic and he’s just real and I had no idea he was going to propose,” she said of the moment when David told her she was “the only one” for him.
Christine, who was spiritually married to Kody, 55, from 1994 to 2021, admitted she was surprised by how loving David was when asking for her hand. (Christine and Kody share six children.)
“Everything that he said was absolutely beautiful and perfect. And he got down on one knee. It was a perfect day,” she gushed. “I’m so excited. I feel like this life is just starting all over again. And I love it.”
Christine, who was Kody’s third wife before their divorce, noted that her life with David has made her see everything differently. (Christine and David tied the knot in October 2023.)
“There’s a whole new level of being loved that I didn’t have before,” Christine said. “I’m now loved so deeply, so rich. I’m just loved. David loves me and there’s no question. He only loves me.”
While Christine was over the moon to be engaged to David, she threw a few jabs at her ex-husband in the episode. Kody, however, has slammed Christine more than a few times since they separated.
During a September 2022 episode of Sister Wives, Kody told Christine he “wasn’t attracted” to her on their wedding day. “I felt pressured into the marriage,” he said. “I did not know better at the time.”
Christine revealed in the same episode that there was a “romantic connection” for her when she said, “I do,” and was unaware of Kody’s feelings until he voiced them.
The following year, Christine said that a lack of intimacy added to her reason to leave Kody. “It was, like, five times in one year,” she said during a December 2023 appearance on the “Juicy Scoop” podcast of how often she had sex with Kody before their split.
“There’s sex and then there’s intimacy. What we didn’t have was intimacy. The intimacy itself had been gone for years,” Christine recalled, explaining that once Kody told her they were done having sex in 2020, she began “boxing up his stuff” and told he couldn’t sleep in her bed anymore.
Through all the drama — and first wife Meri Brown and second wife Janelle Brown eventually leaving Kody in 2023 and 2022, respectively — Kody has said he wasn’t the one in the wrong. He alleged in a September episode of the TLC show that he planned to stick out all of his now-failed marriages because of his duty.
“I didn’t kick me out. Christine, Janelle and Meri all chose to have me leave the home,” Kody said during the September 22 Sister Wives episode, insisting he wasn’t “playing the victim card.”
Kody further claimed that despite all their differences, he “wasn’t ever going to leave them, no matter how much I didn’t love them.”
While Christine and Kody have now both been vocal about their alleged lack of love for one another, Kody has had a different approach to Meri, 53, leaving.
The former couple, who were legally married in 1990, had a rocky decade before they parted ways in January 2023, but in Sunday’s episode, Kody got melancholy for what they used to have. (Meri and Kody divorced in 2014 and Kody subsequently married fourth wife Robyn Brown and adopted her three kids from a prior marriage. Meri and Kody remained in a spiritual union for nearly 10 more years.)
“I don’t understand Kody. He’s done everything in his power to push me away for the past decade,” Meri said during a confessional on Sunday’s episode after telling Kody she is moving to Utah earlier than planned. “And now I’m moving. And he’s like, ‘Why are you doing it so early?’ Like, why do you care? Isn’t this what you wanted?”
Kody gave insight into his feelings telling the cameras, “My immediate reaction in my heart was, ‘Good, this will be good for Meri.’ But I never tell Meri what’s going on in my heart anymore. It’s not actually safe.”
During a conversation with Kody, Meri asked him to drive a truck from Arizona to Utah to help her move. “Call it my severance package,” she said, laughing.
“It’s a weird space to be with the severance package thing because I don’t know if this is passive aggressive or if it’s just aggressive or if it’s a joke and I don’t know,” Kody said. “And I haven’t known my whole marriage.”
Kody later confessed: “There’s so many mixed emotions. It’ll be good for Meri to move. It’s a beginning. [But] I got a bit of a nostalgic heart and it’s a little broken.”
Sister Wives airs on TLC Sundays at 10 p.m. ET.
