Sister Wives’ Kody brown Calls Marriage to Meri A ‘Storm’ Since Day One: ‘The Strain Was Permanent’
Kody Brown He is sharing new insights into his past marriage with Meri Brown.
Recent revelations indicate that they’re no longer together Kody and Meri have been married for more than 30 years. They opened up to Sunday’s segment of the “Sunday” show about the end of their union. Sister Wives: One on One.
Meri, 52 years old, stated that “we have a lot in common and I love him”, to Sukanya Krishnan, the host. “He chose not to love me or to have a relationship. He has even said that he doesn’t consider himself married to me. So that’s where we are sitting.
Kody, 53, pointed out that the former couple entered plural marriage at a “young age” and had to “establish a family” without the wherewithal to do so.
“I married Meri, and it was a difficult relationship from the very start,” he said.
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Kody started a relationship then with Kody. Janelle BrownHis second wife was called “a blessing of dilution”. It diluted the relationship I had previously with Meri.”
He also acknowledged that plural marriage made his problems with Meri worse because Meri was “we”. [were] bringing more people into a problem.”
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Kody then described the “weird as heck” experience of Janelle’s move into Meri’s house.
“I have an established relationship with someone that I don’t get along. I then bring in another person and now it’s triangulating,” said he. “And then we bring…” Christine In and that seemed to calm the strain because we began having children. We seemed to have a more focused focus, even though the strain was constant.
He said, “This was happening starting from the day, the week, the month, or whenever after Meri and I had our honeymoon period. We were caught up in the storm.”
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Meri was Kody’s second wife. The couple tied the knot in 1990. welcomed child Leon Brown 1995. He eventually went on to wed Janelle and Christine before welcoming fourth and final wife (so far) Robyn Brown.
Christine, 49, announced Kody and Janelle ended their 25-year-old spiritual marriage in November 2021. Janelle, 53, recently revealed that she and Kody had also separated. separated. Robyn, 44, is his legal wife.
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