Although there’s no record of “basement wife” as an official term in polygamous relationships, when Christine refers to herself as one, it makes a lot of sense. “In the plural community, there’s certainly a 'basement-wife' mentality,” she explains during the Sister Wives reunion. “If you have a situation where there’s a wife that’s the queen bee, well, the other wife goes in the basement, and she doesn’t matter as much. And I’ve seen it enough. I’ve seen it a lot.”

When asked why she didn’t try to pick herself up out of being the “basement wife,” Christine shares, “‘Cause I didn’t even know, I didn’t know at that time about basement wives. I didn’t know that it was anything. I had no idea. I chose to just let it happen. And I chose to be weaker. I just did.” So eventually, Christine decided that the best thing to do was to leave Kody. As far as we know, Christine moved back to Utah with her daughter, Truely Brown.