Throughout the newest episode of Sister Wives, Meri Brown opened up about feeling just like the third wheel whereas spending time with Kody Brown and Robyn Brown.
Throughout the episode, which aired on Sunday, September 10, and was filmed in December 2022, Meri, 52, celebrated Christmas Eve with Kody, 54, and Robyn, 44.
“It’s in all probability very awkward for Meri. That is mine and Robyn’s home,” Kody stated of the festivities throughout a confessional. “Robyn and I at all times need to tone down our romantic pressure fully.”
Robyn added throughout her personal confessional: “I do know that it’s totally different for Meri and Kody. Out of respect for her and out of affection for her, I’m cautious.”
Regardless of Kody and Robyn’s efforts, Meri nonetheless felt misplaced. “Kody doesn’t cover issues properly and I’m properly conscious. It’s sort of like being the opposite lady,” she stated with fun.
Meri and Kody have been legally married from 1990 to 2014 and continued to be spiritually married for years after that. Their rocky relationship has performed out on the Sister Wives through the years. Throughout the season 17 finale of the TLC collection, which aired in December 2022, Kody stated, “I don’t need to be in a relationship with [Meri] anymore.”
In January, the duo launched a joint assertion saying that they’d determined to “completely terminate” their marriage. The exes share one youngster: Leon, 28, who introduced in June 2022 that they’re transgender and use they/them pronouns.
Whereas Kody celebrated with Meri and Robyn throughout Sunday’s episode, his exes Janelle Brown and Christine Brown had their very own Christmas get collectively at a trip rental.
“For the final 30 years, I’ve celebrated Christmas as a household,” Janelle, 54, stated throughout a confessional, noting that it felt “peaceable” and “joyful” to alter issues up this 12 months. She spent Christmas Day with simply her sons Garrison, 24, and Gabe, 21, and daughter Savannah, 18, all of whom she shares with Kody. Their son Hunter, 26, arrived on the rental later. (Janelle and Kody additionally share son Logan, 29, and daughter Maddie, 27.)
Janelle, who confirmed that she and Kody had “been separated for a number of months” in the course of the December 2022 Sister Wives: One-on-One particular, additionally opened up about telling her kids that her and Kody’s relationship was on the rocks.
“I sort of instructed the children their dad and I had had a extremely dangerous battle that we in all probability weren’t getting back from,” she instructed cameras. “My children weren’t shocked, they’ve noticed our relationship for a number of years and thought perhaps it was time for me to do one thing totally different, discover one thing higher.”
Christine, 51, in the meantime, arrived on the trip rental later, the place she stayed for a number of days. “Simply having all people in the identical place once more, it already feels festive,” she stated in the course of the episode.
Christine, who spiritually married Kody in 1995, determined to finish the connection and relocate to Utah in November 2021. That March, she solely instructed Us Weekly that she felt like she’d misplaced her voice within the household.
“Anytime we’ve had main choices, I’m going via a time the place I’m like, ‘Does my opinion actually even matter right here?’ That’s after we wrestle probably the most … is once I really feel like I don’t actually have a say or I don’t actually have an opinion,” she stated on the time.
Kody expressed unhappiness over the top of their marriage throughout an October 2022 episode of Sister Wives.
“I’m residing in a delusional world the place I’m wishing Christine didn’t depart. I’m combating type of a state of remorse and frustration,” he stated in a confessional. “It’s a bizarre factor to be getting left. It’s made me query stepping into plural marriage. Query my religion. The message we needed to the world about practical polygamy appears so dysfunctional now.”
Throughout Sunday’s episode, Kody opened up about celebrating the vacations with out Janelle and Christine.
“Tomorrow’s gonna be Christmas, and we’ll be tremendous targeted on who’s right here and who we love and stuff like that. However I’m coming at this with a deficit. My checking account of affection has been simply [emptied],” he stated. “My coronary heart has simply been ripped to items. And I’m not but in that place that I hold praying I can get to the place I’m simply accepting what has occurred and the place we’re at.”
Kody shares daughters Aspen, 28, Mykelti, 27, Gwendolyn, 21, Ysabel, 20, and Truely, 13, and son Paedon, 25 with Christine. He and Robyn share son Solomon, 11, and daughter Ariella, 7. Kody additionally adopted Robyn’s three kids from a earlier marriage: son Dayton, 21, and daughters Aurora, 21, and Breanna, 19.
Sister Wives airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on TLC, MAX, and Discovery+.