Sister Wives Star Kody Brown’s Daughter Ysabel Breaks Down Over Their Strained Relationship

On Sunday evening’s new episode, Kody and ex Christine Brown’s daughter Ysabel, 20, went via a spread of feelings as her mother moved in together with her new boyfriend, David Woolley.

“He will not try to substitute dad, proper? For us?” Ysabel requested her mom, getting emotional as they pair spoke. “He cannot substitute dad. He isn’t attempting to, proper?”

In a confessional, she continued, explaining, “I fear that my dad and the possibility of getting like a very shut relationship with my dad is like slowly going away.”

Christine tried to persuade her daughter David wasn’t coming for the dad title, and is as a substitute centered on being one of the best stepfather he might be.

“Nobody’s going to switch your dad, nobody. Should you want a dad determine or a father determine or somebody like that, he’ll be no matter you want,” Christine assured her daughter, earlier than including in a confessional of her personal, “She needs a dad, huge time. However she needs her dad.”

Ysabel then continued to clarify why she thought the connection between herself and her father may proceed to deteriorate.

“So I am frightened that my relationship with my father can be desolate, will like not exist anymore as a result of David will,” she started, earlier than catching herself and altering her ideas on David in actual time. “Truly, I like do not imply to love say that he could be that type of particular person, as a result of he would solely ever come into any scenario with like all people else in thoughts and solely with respect to all people else as effectively.”

“David like he comes off as like a really like current dad like together with his youngsters,” Ysabel added, once more tearing up as she spoke. “So, I imply, how pretty would that be, proper? I might like to have a relationship that’s as wonderful with my very own father.”

The dialog ended with Christine once more reassuring her daughter that she’s “all the time” wished her youngsters to “have an excellent relationship along with your dad” — and whereas David becoming a member of the household offers all of them “another person to like,” he isn’t attempting to switch their precise father.

This breakdown comes amid Kody’s strained relationships with a lot of his youngsters, lots of whom have felt lately he is begun to favor the youngsters he shares with spouse Robyn — the one considered one of his “wives” with whom he’s nonetheless in a relationship.

Sister Wives airs Sundays on TLC.