'Sister Wives' Star Robyn Brown Says Life with Kody Has Been 'Hell' at Times amid Splits but 'He's Doing His Best' (Exclusive)

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The "last wife standing" shares how the other relationships ending has impacted her and Kody’s marriage: "No one should be married while they’re going through a divorce."

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00:00 There's no denying it's been a tumultuous few years

00:02 for the stars of "Sister Wives."

00:04 As season 18 kicks off,

00:05 only one of the four marriages seems to be secure.

00:08 I wanted to sit on a porch with my sister wives,

00:13 with our kids and our grandkids.

00:18 Cody's remaining wife, Robin,

00:19 is reflecting on the unique position she finds herself in.

00:23 The wife left standing.

00:24 That's what Cody calls me, the wife left standing.

00:29 The wife that stuck it out or something.

00:32 I don't remember what he says,

00:33 but it's along those lines.

00:35 I mean, Cody and I have an agreement

00:38 that if we decide we don't wanna be married anymore,

00:40 we're not gonna hold each other up.

00:42 But I never thought that I wanted to leave the marriage, no.

00:45 I just know how much I love Cody,

00:50 and I know he's a good guy, and he's doing his best.

00:54 I don't think anybody should be married

00:57 while they're going through a divorce.

00:59 Anybody who's gone through a divorce

01:02 knows that it brings out the worst in you,

01:06 and sides of somebody that you didn't know existed

01:10 type of a thing.

01:10 And I always look at divorce as kind of like,

01:15 'cause I've been divorced myself,

01:16 and so I always look at divorce as like the opposite

01:19 of all of the effort and the beauty and the wonder

01:22 and the happiness of marriage.

01:23 It's like the opposite of that.

01:26 And it's been very difficult.

01:31 And even though her marriage is still intact,

01:33 she admits she's been very emotional

01:35 about the other relationship's ending.

01:37 I feel like we've failed.

01:38 I feel like we,

01:39 I am embarrassed that we showed our family to the world

01:46 and then that we can't keep ourselves close together.

01:53 Like, that's really embarrassing,

01:55 and I feel like that we failed

01:57 because this was the commitment that we made,

01:59 and we were all in this,

02:01 and we all made this choice to do this.

02:04 There is a weird feeling of like,

02:06 this was the agreement,

02:09 this was the unspoken, well, even spoken agreement,

02:11 spoken and unspoken agreement to be together

02:15 and end up together and always be a family.

02:18 And I just feel like, you know, people left.

02:22 I know that it doesn't fully make sense.

02:26 It's not completely logical, but it's emotional.

02:29 And so that's kind of how I feel.

02:34 With so much uncertainty,

02:35 Robyn says she's been keeping her focus on her children.

02:38 My biggest thing right now,

02:39 the only thing that kind of keeps me going is my kids.

02:42 And just seeing how well they're just

02:49 sort of figuring this out.

02:51 And they're dealing with their own heartache

02:54 and pain about it, but they're also, you know,

02:59 they're really great kids.

03:00 And so I just think about that a lot, and I focus on them.

03:04 And if any of the other children, you know,

03:08 want to be in our life, then I open my arms.

03:13 My arms are open completely, and I just,

03:20 it's weird 'cause like all these years with the family,

03:25 I had a future in my mind.

03:26 I saw it every night as I fell asleep.

03:29 You know, I was always focused on being out

03:33 on our property together,

03:34 and I could see us all out there in my mind.

03:37 And like, now I don't know what my future is.

03:42 It's a weird thing to say, and it's a weird thing to,

03:46 it's a weird thing to admit.

03:47 It's a hard thing to admit.

03:49 But right now, like, I'm trying to sort of find my future,

03:54 if that makes any sense.

03:56 For more with the stars of "Sister Wives,"

03:58 pick up this week's issue of "People" on newsstands Friday.

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