TLC’s reality show about a polygamist family Sister Wives returns tonight with an all-new Sunday, March 4, 2018, season 9 episode 8 called “The Truth Comes Out” and we have your weekly Sister Wives recap below. On tonight’s Sister Wives season 9 episode 8 as per the TLC synopsis, “Janelle’s house is all joy as Maddie has her baby shower, but Christine is devastated when Ysabel’s X-rays show that her scoliosis is worsening and surgery is imminent. In desperation, they turn to unproven alternative treatments.”
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Meri’s relationship with her daughter Mariah has definitely improved since the latter started dating Audrey and so tonight Meri had wanted to put together a dinner to introduce Audrey to everyone.
Most of the older kids know that Mariah is gay, however, she wasn’t too sure about the younger kids and so the dinner was a way to introduce Audrey as either her girlfriend or her very good friend depending on her siblings’ ages. But the dinner as a whole had been great. It had been good for Mariah who was clearly happier than she’s ever been and it had also been great for the family. They got to come together to “officially” celebrate St. Patrick’s Day which was a big thing for them and some of the younger kids were filled in on who Audrey’s really was. Robyn had told her son Solomon that Audrey was Mariah’s girlfriend and he had blown a frustrated raspberry because he hadn’t wanted to hear about anyone’s romance. And Solomon would have done that no matter his siblings’ sexuality.
Solomon was still just a kid and so he proved to be very adaptable. As for the rest of the family, they had happily welcomed Audrey who fit right in. She was funny and could joke with the best of them. So they all liked Audrey and Christina had even volunteered to crotchet their new St. Patty’s Day quote about the day being that they were gay (because of the rainbow) and not Irish. Audrey had loved that so much that she couldn’t wait for the gift and so she truly did get their sense of humor. And that day had been a great one for all the in-laws. Caleb had given the prayer for the dinner because they had all wanted him to do it and had even asked him to do it despite him being of a different faith. He was a born-again Christian yet managed to support the family no matter what.
He marched with them in Utah and had opened their eyes to accepting other faiths without writing them off because they feared themselves being judged. Plus, another good reason to have Caleb around was that he and Madison got to show off her baby bump. She was in her third trimester and was huge. There were some that asked her if she was going to give birth to a ten-pound baby and others that asked if she was sure she wasn’t having twins. It got to the point where she threatened to do bodily harm to anyone that asks her those questions again and so the third trimester wasn’t turning out to be an easy one for Madison. She and the family were all still happy about the baby and so the sooner the baby gets here the better it will be for everyone.
However, the family did discuss something later on that they were all concerned about. They talked about Ysabel and her scoliosis. She was diagnosed last year with the condition when her doctor noticed that she suffered from a twenty-six percent curvature in her spine. The doctor had recommended at the time that she wear a night brace and from there they had also discussed a full-time brace that had upset the teenager. She found the brace to bulky and embarrassing, so she wanted out of it. The teenager just wanted to be like everybody else and so her mother Christine looked into other forms of treatment. She had heard about a program that had significantly lowered the curvature for someone else and she thought that would be good for her daughter.
The other adults were willing to be onboard with the idea because they all wanted what was best for Ysabel and so the ultimate decision rested with both Christine and Kody although Kody will probably not understand how much Ysabel hates her brace as much as Christine would. Christine was a teenage girl and she didn’t want her daughter to hate her body or feel like the bulky brace was making her look bigger than she was. It was merely hard for someone like Kody to understand that and that wasn’t the only thing he couldn’t understand. The family likes to come together to handle the big things and that was usually very fine and well, but Kody was still going through certain things with Meri that they didn’t generally wish to share with the others.
The two have had problems for a long time now and so they have been in therapy in hopes of one day getting their relationship as well as their intimacy back through the experience hasn’t always been easy and they seemed to come up against each other on this whole buying a house business. Meri had wanted to buy back a house that her great-great-grandfather has built in the late 1800s and she had wanted support from Kody only Kody wouldn’t give it. He thought they would be overextending themselves if Meri got that house and so he tried to talk Meri out of it. He said that it wouldn’t be a good idea and had seen the look in Meri’s eyes that said she didn’t give up on it. So Kody told her that she does get the house that she couldn’t expect help from the family afterward.
What Kody meant by that was that Meri couldn’t expect financial help if she ran into some difficulties because she bought the house. She wasn’t the only one that Kody had to look after and like he always says “he has to look at the bigger picture”. Except telling Meri to go do this by herself isn’t something she wasn’t to do anymore. She wants to be able to share the experience with her family and, thankfully, they reached an agreement in therapy. They decided that Kody would go with her back to Utah despite the risks and that they would look at the house together. And so Meri wanted the trip to help bring them closer, but Kody was no longer sure about wanting their intimacy back. He had been reluctant to say what he wanted from the therapy in therapy and so he continues to remain at an uneasy truce with Meri.
Meri, on the other hand, was tired of doing things on her own. She knows that she can do it if she’s so inclined and so she didn’t need for Kody to tell her that. Meri actually hates it when he tells her that because she didn’t need him to tell her and that’s why they haven’t gotten very far in therapy. Though Kody was able to put his problems with Meri behind him when he went to Ysabel’s doctor’s appointment. The appointment was supposed to discuss Ysabel’s course of treatment and so they first had to get another scan. That scan showed that the daytime brace wasn’t in fact working and that her spine continued to curve only the doctor hadn’t been concerned. He has discussed surgery with Kody and Christine and he said that surgery would best when her spine is curved at fifty percent, so he told Ysabel didn’t have to wear her daytime brace anymore because they were going to try to get her ready for surgery.
In the meantime, Ysabel had to build up muscle memory. She went to physical therapy and had to wear something that wasn’t a brace yet it helped kept her spine aligned as she exercised and Ysabel hadn’t had a problem with it. She had liked the belt and was glad that it was so easy to wear. And she liked physical therapy. She had met another girl who went through the same thing and they had quickly bonded because Mariana was the one person that understand all that she was going through. From the embarrassment to finally feeling like she can do this if no triumph over it. So Ysabel slowly regains her sunny disposition and her parents were happy to see their daughter smile again.
The two would even walk around when she was off at physical therapy and so that eventually led to reflect on how things are between them. They had also had a few years when it was really hard and didn’t want to be around each other however Kody said that a lot of that had to do with petty insecurities. Christine had wanted to focus on them as a couple and Kody couldn’t do that because he had to think of his relationship with Christine in terms of their plural marriage. He later realized that he had to validate Christine more and what had helped her through all of that had been Robyn. Robyn had wanted the same thing as Christine and once Christine saw that for herself – she opened up to Robyn.
Their relationship was now a very close one and they were there for each other. Christine watched Robyn’s kids when they went to Utah recently to march and Robyn supported Christine as went through this ordeal with Ysabel.
A lot of people had come down on Robyn and started to call her a “home wrecker” though Robyn was the one Christine credited for her improved relationship with Kody.
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