Sister Wives’ Kody and Janelle Brown’s Relationship Timeline From Meeting in 1989 to Their Split

Meeting in 1989

While Janelle was still married to Adam, she met Kody, describing the moment as a “singular experience.”

Marrying in 1993

Janelle and Kody were spiritually married on January 20, 1993.

May 1994

Logan, the couple’s first child, was born on May 21, 1994, and was raised in Lehi, Utah.

November 1995

Their daughter Maddie followed soon after and was born on November 3, 1995.

February 1997

Born on February 9, 1997, Hunter is their third child and Kody’s sixth.

October 1998

Born on Halloween 1998, Garrison became the couple’s fourth child together and Kody’s eighth.

December 2004

The twelfth child of Kody’s and the sixth child of Janelle’s, Savanah was born on December 7, 2004.

2010

Production begins filming for Sister Wives, and the series’ first episode airs in September 2010.

2011-2012

Janelle and the rest of the sister wives relocated to Las Vegas in 2011, with Janelle buying a house there in 2012.

June 2016

On June 4, 2016, their daughter Madison married Caleb Brush. They would later go on to welcome two children: son Axel James Brush and daughter Evangelynn Kodi Brush, and are expecting their third child, a baby girl, due in February 2023

September 2017

Their son Logan got engaged to Michelle Petty on September 15, 2017, after roughly three years of dating, later tying the knot in an intimate ceremony on October 22, 2022.

June 2021

Janelle became the first one out of Kody’s four wives to set up a home base on the family’s land in Coyote Pass, Arizona, in an RV.

November 2021

Janelle moves off the Coyote Pass land for the winter, writing on Instagram at the time, “So long trailer! See you next spring.”

January 2022

Janelle’s son Gabe showed his frustration with Kody’s strict COVID-19 rules over the holidays, as shown in a January 2022 episode of Sister Wives in which he told his mom, “I’m tired of it. [His rules are] literally ruining our family.”

“I mean, my kids, my boys, and Kody, they’re in these very opposite camps and there’s no give and take,” Janelle said, noting the growing tension between her husband and their kids. “It’s just talk, talk, talk, try to convince. … That’s it. I’ve been trying for nine months to get us to find some sort of middle ground, and there is no give on either side.”

During the same episode, Kody gathered Janelle and the other three wives – Meri, Robyn and Christine, who announced her split with Kody in November 2021 – to discuss holiday plans. Janelle told him that he came off as “condescending” after he tried to lay out his holiday COVID rules for his wives, and later told him to “f–k off.”

February 2022

During part two of the Sister Wives season 16 tell-all, Kody told host Sukanya Krishnan that he and Janelle aren’t “in sync” before noting that he’s not “in love” with her.

“We don’t partner really well, but we actually just are able to have a marriage that’s, if you will, lower in attachment. I mean, we’re good friends. We get along well. It’s more of a … committed relationship,” he explained.

May 2022

Janelle and her kids Gabe, Hunter and Savanah hiked the trails of Mogollon Rim, a 200-mile stretch in Arizona that reaches New Mexico, without Kody in May 2022, further fueling rumors of tension in their marriage.

June 2022

A source told In Touch that “Janelle and Kody have more of a brother and sister relationship” amid their ongoing drama.

September 2022

Janelle joined Christine on a road trip to visit family in Idaho in September 2022, with Kody noticeably absent. Later that month, the pair also flew to Hawaii sans the businessman.

In the September 25 episode of Sister Wives, tensions were high after Kody slammed Christine and Janelle’s attitudes about his COVID rules. “It’s this snotty little attitude about the rules and stuff that I’ve had, and I’m sort of tired of the snotty attitude,” he said during a confessional.

October 2022

An insider told In Touch that Janelle “would never leave Kody,” despite the palpable tension between the pair.

“Janelle is perfectly content with the relationship they’ve always had and it’s never changed, and it’s always been the way it is and he respects her,” the source noted. “She and Kody are best friends.”

November 2022

Christine’s daughter, Gwendyln Brown, and her best friend, Sarah, ruffled feathers after hopping on a TikTok live, in which Gwendlyn hinted that Janelle had already left Kody.

During the November 20 episode of Sister Wives, Kody claimed that Janelle was “rejecting” him and favoring her relationship with Christine. “I’m begging Janelle for a closer relationship,” Kody said.

“Now the relationships [have] changed. We’ve said some very harsh things to Kody. Now it’s different,” Janelle said, acknowledging that she and Christine have a relationship closer than just being sister wives. “Now it seems like we focus on the common experience and the kids.”

Additionally, Janelle celebrated Thanksgiving with all six of her kids, as well as Logan’s wife, Michelle, and Christine’s son Paedon, without Kody.

December 2022

In a teaser clip for the December 2 episode of the long-running TLC show, Kody told Janelle there was something “fundamentally wrong” with their marriage. In another clip, Janelle put in her two cents about their relationship, saying, “I never thought I’d be in a place where I would be questioning my relationship, but the last few years, I’ve began to wonder if we’re compatible anymore [sic] .Maybe this doesn’t work anymore for me, I don’t know.”

Further fueling rumors of a split, Janelle celebrated their youngest daughter Savanah’s 18th birthday in Las Vegas without Kody.

Days later, on December 9, In Touch exclusively confirmed that Janelle had finally left Kody. “Janelle is a strong independent woman and realized she can do it on her own,” the insider said, adding that the TLC personality “outgrew him.”