ChristineandKody Brown’s sonPaedon Brownhas shared some hard truths about his family.
“This represents a really big break in our family tradition,” she said in a confessional interview. “I mean, I had all these mixed thoughts going on, but I really was happy to be here. It was a really great day. We were having a lot of fun. It was perfect, really.
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And while Christine also appeared to enjoy herself, she also saw still the family’s separate holidays for what it represented in the grander scheme of the family’s escalating problems.
“Our family has been hurting for a long time. We’ve done our best to be as OK as possible, but there’s still hurt feelings from 12 years ago,” Christine, 51, said in a confessional. “Everything has been accumulating and accumulating for years. It’s at a breaking point. Sorry, it’s just at a breaking point.”
The topic of family divide is something the Brown family children have been thinking about as well. At Christine and Janelle’s Thanksgiving gathering, Christine and Paedon, 25, had a separate discussion about the ongoing tension, which saw her only son sarcastically talking about the other side of the family. Christine noted that Paedon’s sarcasm stemmed from “anger.”
“My mom’s kids and Janelle’s kids have chosen a side,” Paedon said in a confessional. “To the best of my knowledge, all of us chose my mom.”
“Everyone was trying to deflect, but it just kept spiraling, and it was done,” Janelle explained. “With some of the things that were said and expressed, I don’t know if we ever come back from it.”
“When we first went public, the purpose of going public was to say, ‘Polygamy works,'” Paedon then told the cameras. “I don’t think it works in my family anymore.”
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As footage of Christine’s conversation with Paedon continued, she also shared in a confessional: “I’m trying to, like, make it so that he can have a relationship with his dad, but his dad has picked sides.”
She admitted, “In front of Padeon, I’m gonna say, ‘I think we can work all this all out. I think everything is going to be fine.’ Is it going to be? No.”
Christine summed up, “Once again, I feel like our family is just dividing. I think we are looking at a permanent separation.”
“None of our children have chosen to live polygamy. We don’t even have any really that are in the Mormon church, the mainstream LDS church,” Janelle recently told PEOPLE in a joint interview with Christine. “When they were growing up, we always just encouraged them to have a relationship with God, and I think many of them do in their own way. … I think polygamy is hard, and I think you really do have to have a religious conviction, and they just don’t.”
Christine added, “Some of our kids have seen how hard it is, and some of our kids have seen the separation. They see how hard it is and they’re like, ‘No, no, no, no, no. No, that’s not for me.'”
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