In a raw and emotional television revelation, a man at the center of a famous plural family has disclosed a period of profound personal crisis, during which he contemplated abandoning his last standing marriage.
The figure, known for his long-term practice of polygamy, described feeling “slapped” by the lifestyle he once championed. During a Valentine’s Day dinner with his current wife, he confessed to a deep-seated bitterness over his experiences. “It’s hard not to be bitter about the fact that I bought off on it and did it,” he stated, reflecting on the collapse of his multi-wife household. “In the last moments of it, it felt terrible.”
He was unequivocal about his changed perspective, telling cameras he is no longer interested in plural marriage. Citing a desire to avoid “that headache, the questions, the struggles, the wonder about trust,” he declared he would not pursue another partner. While he expressed gratitude for the children born from his previous unions, he admitted to being “completely discouraged” by the notion that others might feel pressured to follow a similar path.
His wife, for her part, shared that she is “heartbroken” by their family’s dissolution and now feels “very scared” of plural marriage due to the fallout.
The most startling admission came when he linked the failure of his polygamous structure to a desire to flee his current monogamous relationship. “When we failed at it, I was sabotaging myself,” he explained. “There were days… that I thought about just walking away from our relationship, too. And that was just because I was so broken, I became self-destructive.”
He concluded with a direct apology to his wife for this “dark space,” acknowledging that his anger and sense of rejection were unfair to her and led to “bad thoughts about us.” The confession paints a picture of a man grappling with the severe emotional aftermath of a very public family breakdown, struggling to find stability in its wreckage.
