Since Kody is *legally* married only to Meri, then my guess is that he might have his name on her checking account, so in that sense he "contributed" to the buying of @ least that one house. I thought there was a bit of hostility displayed in the interview also. But realistically I can't imagine *any* 4 women getting along all lovey-dovey all the time. That's wayyyy to much estrogen for that to happen. I wonder about all this on-going drama over trying to find 4 houses (or lots) side by side. I understand the need & desire for it. But we're talking Las Vegas..... one of the highest foreclosure rates in the country. It's hard to imagine that this has played out for so long. One thing that I get impatient with is women crying on TV .... and they are trying to sop up their tears with their fingers & not mess up their make-up. GET A TISSUE! These 4 all did the requisite boo-hooing,,, it's part of the shtick ... & not a one had a freakin' TISSUE!!! /rant I kinda like the characters. They all seem like good & genuine people. I cannot imagine sharing a husband, tho'. ~~shudder~~

Oh, I'm right with you about Meri--she went from my fav, to last on my list. I feel so bad for Robyn--I'm sure she figured by now, she'd have had a baby for Meri and would be about ready to get started on her own second with Kody. But Meri's got everyone waiting on her inability to admit she really doesn't want another, she just wants the ability to whine that she can't have any more of her own. And Robyn's got the wrong idea about that jewelry thing. There's no way that is going to be the business that supports the family. They NEED to be diversifying. It's okay one or two of them run the jewelry thing, and another one or two go into real estate. It would be nice if Kody found himself a career (does he really do anything?). And what happened to Meri's plan to work with at-risk youth?

I agree that I don't want to buy a necklace because Robyn gave it to Meri etc. etc. I want to buy it because I like the design. I went on their website and didn't see much I liked, plus it did seem overpriced. After the expo failure, seems like they should scrap the whole thing. Or at least change the name to something less controversial. I think at least 2 of them (Meri & Janelle) need to get a "real" job with a stable income. Real estate CAN be a great field, but it's not steady esp in the beginning. They have no experience and no customer base?? Plus, Cody doesn't seem to be working much either. Do you really think Meri is purposely stalling on having another baby b/c of Robyn and Cody? I thought she was really just trying to decide if she wanted to start over again-having one in college and one in diapers? Looked like the next epsiode showed her telling Mariah she decided, "No". It's not for me, but I liked the idea of them all in one big house. I thought that was the goal for this family. You can not tell me that 4 medium sized houses (and mortgages) could be cheaper then 1 huge house or a duplex model, but I guess it's more then Cody and his 1 legal wife could qualify for? I liked Meri, but she seems selfish with her house "needs". She has 1 daughter who will probably be away at college next year and she wants the biggest house so she can have a craft room and wet bar (Or whatever it was)?? It seems like the family has really fallen apart ever since Robyn entered the picture. I know they went through the whole fleeing Utah, which obviously disrupted daily life, but Christine acts like Robyn is this outsider to their family (which I agree she is). The original family grew up together for 15 years or so, and then cute little Robyn pops in with her 4 kids. I do feel slightly bad since Robyn feels like a part of them and I don't think the other 3 feel much for her. I think it would be a HUGE mistake for Cody to take on another wife, esp Robyn's sister.

coffeemom!!! LOL Good one! I watched the show. I love to see how different people live their lives. I think firemans wife had a good term "morbid curiousity"! Frankly, despite their "weird" situation, they mostly seemed happy. Are the wives fooling themselves? Probably? What will all those kids grow up to become?? Who knows? There seemed to be an inordinate number of girl children in that family or maybe it's because there is really only 1 older boy, who seemed to shoulder a BIG responsibility, taking care of all his siblings, because his mom worked all day 6am-7pm. So she works, the husband works. Thought the 3 different apartments in the house was an interesting idea. Wonder where #4 will go?? 2 of the 3 women grew up in polygamist (sp?) families, so it probably seems "normal" to them. Had to laugh when they said "having the one husband spend time with the other wives a few nights a week, really frees up time for me!" But how could there not be jealousy of knowing your hubby is sleeping with other women each night? In this particular case, it's not a dirty old man preying on young teen girls. He did seem like he was on uppers the way he was bouncing around all the time. The husband is around 40's and the 3 wives are just 2-3 years younger and it sounded like they all met when they were 19-20s. His 4th wife is in her 30's. Guess it's the perfect life for him? They don't "appear" to be in a cult like the families that were found in Texas. They weren't wearing the amish-like outfits. They seemed fairly normal. If you can call that normal. The kids were homeschooled then went to a "church" school where everyone has multiple wives. Weird, but I'll probably watch another episode, until the morbid curiousity is gone!