On the latest episode of Sister Wives, Meri Brown both defended herself And Offered an explanation.
Why, so many TLC viewers have wondered for so long, did it take so long for Meri to move on from her spiritual union to Kody?
In early 2022, we learned that these browns had not mated for more than 10 years.
And yet… even after this information went viral, it took almost 12 months for Meri and Kody to announce that they had ended their marriage.
Why did Mary remain on the side of someone who had stopped openly loving her centuries ago?
“There are a lot of things he says and does that have been really confusing to me over the years, which is why I stayed with him for so long,” Meri told On Air This Week.
“Recently in the last few years where Cody would talk to me almost like he needed to vent his anger, I thought for a while that him talking to me and talking and being open to me was maybe like opening doors. Say, ‘Okay, we can have other conversations.’
‘We can start working on things.’ I felt that way.”
So, Cody was either sending mixed messages. Or maybe Mary was only listening to what she wanted to hear.
Meri and Kody actually married in 1990 and then divorced in 2014 so that Kody could marry Robyn Brown and legally adopt children from his previous relationships.
Things then turned sour between the ex-husband and wife… shortly thereafter Mary became embroiled in a fishing scam.
A woman duped him online by pretending to be a man.
“Meri and I were trying to work out the relationship,” Kody said in his own confessional this week.
“I’m over the catfishing issue with Mary and now I’m just trying to be curious. We’re just trying to figure it out. What ended up happening is that it was never a fertile bed for love to grow.”
Earlier, Kody had blamed Meri as a cheater for this alleged infidelity.
Meri further stated in the episode that, since the family moved from Las Vegas to Flagstaff in 2018, she has found the status of her relationship with Kody “really confusing,” explaining:
“When we left Vegas, you know, when we were getting ready to leave, he’d say things to me like, ‘This is going to be great for us. It’s going to be a new opportunity in our relationship and we’re going to love everything. We can leave it behind and we will start afresh.
Sadly, that never happened.
“We weren’t even like a dating couple,” Cody said of the pair’s stint in Arizona. “We were like a completely separated couple of eight years who were on the verge of divorce.”
Sister Wives airs Sundays at 10/9c on TLC.
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