Kody Didn’t ‘Care Sufficient’ to ‘Struggle’ for Wives

Household breakdown. Meri Brown didn’t maintain again about her emotions towards Kody Brown — and former sister spouse Christine Brown — within the newest episode of Sister Wives.

“Clearly you don’t care sufficient to combat for her,” Meri, 51, mentioned on the Sunday, October 30, episode of the TLC collection of Kody’s option to let Christine, 50, depart him and the household. “Clearly, you didn’t care sufficient to combat for me. I don’t perceive that.”

Whereas Christine is the primary of Kody’s wives to exit their plural marriage, she is just not the primary spouse to specific frustration together with her and the Wyoming native’s relationship. Meri, who married Kody, 53, in 1990, has had a rocky romance together with her partner for years.

“I’ve been in the identical state of affairs with Kody up to now. I knew what I wanted from Kody and I wasn’t getting it,” Meri recalled through the episode. “Kody was very, very distant with me. I requested him to only not keep there for slightly bit. He has interpreted that as I kicked him out and he’s by no means come again.”

Christine, for her half, commented on Meri and Kody’s marital woes whereas discussing the place she moved Kody’s belongings whereas packing up her Arizona home.

“He doesn’t have stuff at Meri’s home. He hasn’t for years. He hasn’t stayed there for years,” she informed the cameras. “He can’t have stuff at Janelle’s home as a result of she lives in slightly tiny trailer. So he has quadruple what he wants at Robyn’s home.”

When Christine, who spiritually wed Kody in 1994, introduced her break up from the patriarch in November 2021, it took Meri and Robyn Brown without warning. Kody’s second spouse, Janelle Brown, was extra conscious of the state of affairs attributable to her closeness with Christine.

The breakup seemingly introduced Meri and Robyn, 43, collectively after their very own ups and downs. (Kody legally divorced Meri in 2014 to legally wed Robyn and undertake her three youngsters from a previous marriage.)

“I’m simply grateful that you simply’re sticking it out,” Robyn informed Meri after commending her for “making it about all people else” whereas struggling in her marriage. “Cling on with me, OK? We have now to rebuild.”

All through Sunday’s episode, Meri, Robyn and Kody continued to share their emotions about Christine’s departure. The Cooking With Simply Christine star, nonetheless, was extra centered on promoting her Arizona residence and her relationship together with her and Kody’s six youngsters.

“The toughest a part of my complete life is that my youngsters don’t have an incredible relationship with their dad. He doesn’t even know them,” she confessed through the episode. “You understand what’s unhappy too, is that they don’t understand how superb he’s both. Kody has this superior aspect to him that my youngsters don’t know and who I really feel in love with. After all, he’s not that individual anymore and neither am I.”

Sister Wives airs on TLC Sundays at 10 p.m. ET.

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