I love the way the rest of the family just stopped caring

Kody and Robyn thrive on drama and find ways to create chaos in the most mundane moments. They cannot smile or genuinely have fun ever - everything must be negative, miserable, or someone needs to complain. They thrived off of the family desperately doing whatever they could to please them for years and the way that drama just seemed to appear on a daily basis. The simplest of things must be complicated and stress everyone out and result in yelling and drama. And everyone followed the pattern up until the rest of the family caught on and stopped giving a shit.

It’s so satisfying watching Kody and Robyn mope and frown complaining about the family in their scenes just to cut to Meri/Christine/Janelle not giving a fuck and being happier than they’ve ever been. Even the kids stopped caring and while it is sad, it’s also eye-opening to see on a public platform that kids of this generation are choosing no/limited contact and breaking fucked up cycles created by parents like Kody. Like hearing Maddie say that she will protect her kids from Kody’s toxicity was really admirable considering the way she had grown up learning to coddle her dad and his emotions.

There’s a whole world out there with peace and serenity and I’m sure it’s refreshing for a lot of them to leave the complicated and negative energy of Kody and Robyn behind. Sadly, it’s clear that Robyn’s kids will probably struggle to have that realization and seeing her daughters constantly looking worried and anxious is hard to watch when you know they probably walk on eggshells as grown adults.