Meri Brown called for the harsh reference while talking about Kody Brown’s emotional availability and the standards she couldn’t meet in their multiple marriages.
In Sunday’s part of 2 episodes Sister Wives: Tell everyoneMeri revealed that she felt Kody didn’t appreciate her love and “loyalty” in their 32-year marriage.
“He said he did, you know, years ago,” she explained to host Sukanya “Suki” Krishnan. “I don’t think he appreciated what he saw.”
Meri, 52, claimed that she persistently complied with all of Kody’s demands in order to save their marriage.
Mary Brown and Kody Brown. Mary Brown/Instagram
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“He would ask me to do things and ask me to be a certain way or ask me to fix a situation or ask me to share some information with him,” she recalled. “All these things so I could fix the relationship and I did everything he asked me to do.”
Despite her best efforts to display the qualities the Brown family patriarch, 54, claimed to value most, the innkeeper said “it just wasn’t good enough.”
Meri added that Kody wasn’t “emotionally available” to her and watching him give access to his other women wasn’t a “dagger in the heart” but a “knife in my kidneys.” She laughed after bringing up Kody’s previous explosive conflict with his third wife Christine Brown when she announced her decision to leave their multiple marriage.
On the other hand, Kody claimed that he “told her I love her” and decided to “love her” and “be romantic”, even though he was never “head over heels” in love, contrary to Mera’s beliefs.
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Kody Brown and Mary Brown. Ida Mae Astute/Walt Disney Television via Getty Images Sister Wives’ Meri Brown Opens Up About Jealousy in Polygamy: ‘I Thought I Was a Bad Person’ (Exclusive)
“It wasn’t that kind of experience for me,” he explained. “But I’ve always been a life-affirming person. I would always affirm what I wanted and that’s why I told her and did everything I could to love her. She thinks we were mad at each other and… we faked it.”
“We had a very romantic experience. We started like that, but there were a lot of dysfunctions we had,” he added.
While Kody will “always love her,” he said he can’t “be in love with her.”
“It’s not safe for me,” he said. “Make peace, whatever you want, but I’m telling you, I’m not going to sit here and drive a bus over her, because this is sad. It’s heartbreaking. It just didn’t work.”
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Mary, Christine, Janelle, Robyn and Kody Brown. Brian Bowen Smith/TLC
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Meri and Kody tied the knot in 1990. The now exes — who share child Leon Brown — eventually struck up a polygamous arrangement with Janelle Brown before welcoming Christine and Robyn Brown into plural marriage. Meri later divorced Kody so he could legally adopt Robyn’s children from her previous marriage.
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In a period of 14 months, three of Sister wives the patriarch’s marriages broke up. Christine was the first to leave in November 2021. A year later, in December 2022, it was revealed that he had divorced Janelle. A month after that, his union with Meri was confirmed in January after their relationship had been platonic and distant for years.
Robyn is Kody’s fourth and only remaining wife.
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