8 Cringy Situations You Can Expect From Season 5

Summary

• The new season of Seeking Sister Wife features returning and new families navigating complex dynamics and internal struggles.
• Garrick and Dannielle Merrifield are seeking a new sister wife after a cringey experience with their previous Brazilian wife, Roberta.
• The Davis family faces conflict as Nick, April, and Jennifer persist in seeking a fourth wife despite Danielle’s reluctance.

Seeking Sister Wife season 5 premiered recently, and this season promises to be the wildest and cringiest yet. For four previous seasons, the show has followed plural families as they search to add a new wife to their clan. Some of the families are searching for a new wife for religious reasons, while some are more secular in their motivations. Regardless of motives, the search for a new wife is never easy but always entertaining.

The cast of Seeking Sister Wife season 5 features plural families returning from past seasons for additional insight into their lives. Several new families have also joined the cast, hoping to add a new sister wife to their clan as family dynamics are highlighted and internal struggles are hashed out. Like past seasons, this season is sure to explore the complexities of their relationships as jealousy becomes a formidable force in their dating lives.

8 Dannielle And Garrick Merrifield Seeking Another Brazilian Sister Wife

Back In The Saddle

Fresh off being used and abandoned by their last Brazilian sister wife, Garrick Merrifield and his wife, Danielle Merrifields, are dating a new Brazilian woman, and Garrick is already itching to propose. They met and married Roberta Pache during the last season of Seeking Sister Wife, but the honeymoon didn’t last. Roberta refused to move to the U.S., kept taking money from the Merrifields, and divorced them when she learned they wanted to find a third wife. Having learned nothing from the experience, the Merrifields are sure to have an equally cringey experience this season.

7 Nathalia Trying To Push Out Dannielle

Wife On Wife Conflict

Despite her many flaws, Roberta seemed to genuinely love Dannielle and didn’t want Garrick all to herself. In fact, there were times when it seemed she would rather spend time with Danielle than be alone with Garrick’s out-of-control ego. Although Nathalia has a lot in common with Roberta, like being another Brazilian who speaks zero English, she’s unlikely to be as happy to share Garrick with Dannielle as Roberta is. Dannielle is also going to be less cooperative this season than she was in the past since the experience with Roberta has tainted her view on plural marriage.

6 The Davis Family Not Respecting Danielle’s Wishes To Not Expand Yet

Too Soon?

Viewers met the Davis family during Seeking Sister Wife season 4. The family’s patriarch, Nick Davis, and his two wives, April Davis and Jennifer Davis, spent the season dating Danielle Davis. The family married Danielle in an odd commitment ceremony during the season finale, but all is not well within the Davis family. During Seeking Sister Wife season 5, Nick, April, and Jennifer are determined to marry a fourth wife to add to the giant, custom-made bed they all sleep in together, while Danielle makes it clear she isn’t ready.

The Davis’ persisted in their desire to add a fourth wife to Nick’s collection, so Danielle packed up her things and moved out of the family home. Teasers for future episodes indicate that Danielle will still be a part of the cast of Seeking Sister Wife season 5. However, it’s hard to say in what capacity she will appear.

Whether Danielle reunites with the Davis’ during the season is an open question, as is whether they will continue to seek another wife.

5 Shane Sherwood’s Insecurities

No Man’s Land

The Sherwoods are different from the other families cast in Seeking Sister Wife season 5. Instead of looking for another wife for Shane Sherwood, they’re looking for a wife for Ashley Sherwood. Ashley identifies as bisexual and wants to add a woman to her marriage with Shane.

The situation triggers Shane because it’s not the first time that he has driven a woman into the arms of another woman, as it happened to him in a past relationship. Shane’s hangups are sure to ignite major jealousy this season as his wife, Ashley, who courts Grace, a lesbian makeup artist they met when she did the makeup for their wedding.

4 Nick Davis Boasting About Being Taken Care Of By His Wives

A Kept Man

Throughout Seeking Sister Wife season 4, it was clear Nick’s wives flat-out worshiped him. Each woman dotes on him, seemingly determined to make his life as easy as possible. All three women work full-time jobs, while Nick is a stay-at-home dad who takes care of their new baby, Vera.

When Nick and his Davis wives pile into the car, Nick never drives, he is driven by the wives. They talk constantly about what a genius he is and how much they love his “big brain.” They can’t seem to praise him enough for his intellect, wisdom, and prowess. Seeking Sister Wives season 5 is sure to include more of Nick talking about being taken care of by his wives.

3 Becky Ryan Finding Women To Date Her Husband

Awkward Moments

One of the three new couples making their debut in Seeking Sister Wives season 5 is Justin Ryan and his wife, Becky Ryan. Ryan and Becky have been in a monogamous marriage for 26 years, so adding a new wife to their family is a big change and is sure to be a challenge. During this season, Becky will be approaching strange women at bars to ask if they want to date her husband, which is sure to lead to profoundly cringey moments.

2 The Salahuddin Family Trying To Explain Their Motives To Naeem’s Mom

Mom Knows Best?

Another new couple joining the cast of Seeking Sister Wife season 5 is Naeem Salahuddin and Nailah Salahuddin. They are Muslim, but they joined polygamy because Nailah thinks her husband thrives on female support and wants to give him more. When they break the news that they are dating a woman to Naeem’s mother, Jameelah, she doesn’t take to the idea. “I don’t like sharing. I’m very picky,” Jameelah says, adding, “It’s very germy to me.”

“I don’t like sharing. I’m very picky. It’s very germy to me.”

1 Garrick Merrifield Explaining His Beliefs Around Polygamy

That’s Not How Any Of This Works

Last season, Garrick and Dannielle didn’t discuss religion much, but that was all about to change. During the Seeking Sister Wife season 5 premiere, Garrick explains how his reading of the bible leads him to polygamy. With Dannielle seated beside him during an interview, Garrick says, “A lot of the scriptures, the terms where it says he fills you with the holy ghost, it’s actually a sexual term. It actually means, like, sperm going into, like, intimacy that way.”

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And even scientifically, we’ve found that, you know, when a man and a woman become one, and his sperm goes into a woman and his DNA becomes part of her.”

As Dannielle listens, barely containing her laughter, Garrick continues, “And even scientifically, we’ve found that, you know, when a man and a woman become one, and his sperm goes into a woman and his DNA becomes part of her […] But yet the woman can’t transfer her DNA back to the man. So it like showed the proof of how Christ was with his church. Like he transfers to us, we don’t transfer to him.” Garrick’s grasp of science is as interesting as his reading of scripture.

Seeking Sister Wife

airs Mondays at 10 p.m. EDT on TLC.