Kody Brown Says Wife Janelle Doesn’t ‘Respect’ Him

• Kody Brown said on “Sister Wives” that he didn’t want to help his wife Janelle build a house.
• “If you don’t respect me, don’t bother with the love,” Kody said. 
• Janelle said Kody was taking his relationship problems out on her, which she called “astounding.”

Tensions were running high between Kody Brown and his second wife Janelle Brown on Sunday’s episode of “Sister Wives” because Kody refused to “break my back” for a wife he felt didn’t “respect” him. 

As documented in season 17, Janelle moved out of her home in Flagstaff, Arizona into an RV on the Brown family’s Coyote Pass property with her daughter Savanah Brown, 17. She hoped the rest of the family would start building homes there as they’d originally planned to do. 

But living in the RV was harder than she anticipated, so Janelle shifted her plans and told Kody she now wanted to rent a home to live in until her house was built.

The couple argued multiple times throughout the episode because Kody wanted Janelle to buy his ex Christine’s house (which was on the market at the time) so they could rent it out in the future. Janelle resisted because she said she couldn’t afford the mortgage on both of the houses. She believed she could get her house on Coyote Pass built within a year. 

In a solo interview, Janelle said the only reason Kody wanted to buy Christine’s house was that he wanted to…