Sister Wives’ Kody Claims Meri ‘Beat the Love Out of Me’ and Drove Him to Get Serious About Polygamy

Kody Brown sheds light on why his relationship with first wife Meri Brown led him to start a polygamous marriage.

During the 3rd part Sister wives answer especially on Sunday, Kody, 54, claimed that Meri, 52, “drove the love out of me during our first year of marriage,” prompting him to look elsewhere for relationships.

“From the beginning, Meri and I had a lot of problems. I couldn’t fix them. I didn’t know what to do,” he said while the video of their breakup was shown in 2022. “Divorce was not an option in my world [so] just diluting the relationship was the only option I had. I say, ‘Hey, I need another wife because I can’t spend all my time with her.'”

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The couple tied the knot in 1990. The now exes – who share child Leon Brown – eventually struck up a polygamous relationship with Janelle Brown, 54, before welcoming Christine Brown, 51, and Robyn Brown, 45, into a polygamous marriage. Meri later divorced Kody so he could legally adopt Robyn’s children from her previous marriage.

The original Brown couple have experienced many problems over the years, and Mary’s catfish drama — in which she literally got involved with a woman posing as a male fan — served as a turning point in their strained relationship.

Kody justified his decision to stay married until their split in December 2022 by explaining that he didn’t want the family to “fall apart”, adding: “I didn’t want failed marriages. I didn’t want all the dysfunction I experienced with these women over 20 years.”

Robyn Brown, Meri Brown, Kody Brown, Christine Brown and Janelle Brown arrive at the grand opening of Mike Tyson’s one-man show “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth – Live on Stage” on April 14, 2012.

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“I find it interesting that he says, ‘This is not what I wanted either,'” Meri added. “Because in my mind I think, why don’t you try something more?”

Meri said she no longer recognizes her ex, explaining, “He seems like a completely different person than Kody was 10, 12, 14, 20 years ago and I’m not like I’m married to that person. So I didn’t.”

She shared that she would like to see Kody take some of the responsibility for the demise of their relationship.

“I really, really wish he would take some kind of responsibility and just say, ‘I loved you as much as I could and as much as you and I were, like I loved you,'” she explains. “And then I realized I wasn’t and I let it go.”

She continued: “It’s not fair that I sit there and watch you have a relationship with Robyn while I’m just in the shadows, I can never have an emotional, intimate relationship again.”

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In the October episode Sister wivesKody opened up about how his marriage to Meri was strained and he lost the spark he needed to keep going.

“I feel like Meri and I had a relatively friendly relationship,” the patriarch of the Brown family said on camera. “It’s far away, I don’t see her often. I don’t know what to do with a marriage that should be eternal, but there is no fire in it.”

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