Real talk: “The act is easy”

When Robyn said “you never know if Kody and I are gonna be together,” Kody looked like he’d just seen a ghost. Elsewhere in that same conversation, in regards to pretending to love Meri, he dismissively said that it was a “performance” and “the act is easy”… do you think he realized right just then that the one he thought was his obedient, devoted “sure thing” might possibly just be performing, too?