Kody Didn’t ‘Care Enough’ to ‘Fight’ 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 battle for her,” Meri, 51, stated on the Sunday, October 30, episode of the TLC sequence of Kody’s option to let Christine, 50, depart him and the household. “Clearly, you didn’t care sufficient to battle for me. I don’t perceive that.”

Whereas Christine is the primary of Kody’s wives to exit their plural marriage, she will not be the primary spouse to specific frustration along with her and the Wyoming native’s relationship. Meri, who married Kody, 53, in 1990, has had a rocky romance along 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 a bit 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 advised the cameras. “He can’t have stuff at Janelle’s home as a result of she lives in a bit tiny trailer. So he has quadruple what he wants at Robyn’s home.”

When Christine, who spiritually wed Kody in 1994, introduced her cut up from the patriarch in November 2021, it took Meri and Robyn Brown unexpectedly. Kody’s second spouse, Janelle Brown, was extra conscious of the state of affairs because of 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 kids from a previous marriage.)

“I’m simply grateful that you just’re sticking it out,” Robyn advised Meri after commending her for “making it about all people else” whereas struggling in her marriage. “Grasp 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 targeted on promoting her Arizona house and her relationship along with her and Kody’s six kids.

“The toughest a part of my entire life is that my youngsters don’t have an ideal relationship with their dad. He doesn’t even know them,” she confessed through the episode. “You realize 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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