“It’s not fair for me to be alone like I’ve been for years and it’s not fair for him to feel like he has to do a duty,” Meri Robyn said on Sunday’s ‘Sister Wives’
Robyn Brown is still holding out hope that Meri and Kody Brown could make it work.
In Sunday’s episode Sister wivesthe TLC star, 45, told Meri to “stick with” her amid her troubles with Kody.
“I think you have to let go,” replied Meri, 52. “It’s not fair to us either. It’s not fair for me to be alone like I’ve been for years and it’s not fair for him to feel like he has a duty to do.”
Robyn Brown, Meri Brown, Kody Brown 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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Meri then grabbed Robyn’s hand as she burst into tears over her decision to leave her family. Robyn, Meri and Kody noted that this is not the way they want the relationship to end.
“Robyn came into our family precisely because she was going to live in a polygamous marriage,” Kody, 54, explained. “This seems to be the end of our polygamous marriage.”
In a period of 14 months, three of Sister wives the patriarch’s marriages broke up. Kody’s third wife, Christine Brown, left first in November 2021. A year later, in December 2022, it was revealed that he had divorced his second wife, Janelle Brown. A month after that, his union with first wife Meri was confirmed in January after their relationship had been platonic and distant for years.
Meri reflected on how her relationship with Robyn will evolve after the split, saying, “I don’t think my relationship with Robyn will be too different from what it was, and I also have to figure out how to be friends with my ex-husband’s wife.”
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Meri hugged Robyn and then shared a long hug with Kody.
“This is goodbye. It was a negotiation that lasted a long time. I mean, it was maybe seven wasted years for Meri,” he shared. – I hope they find peace, because I want to.
Robyn was still struggling with the end of their polygamous marriage, saying: “I always wanted to live in a polygamous marriage. I’m just going to continue to spend time on my knees looking for peace and answers because it really wasn’t an option for me.”
Robyn recently opened up to PEOPLE about the aspects of polygamy that she misses now that her ex-sisters have broken up with Kody.
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Christine Brown, Janelle Brown, Kody Brown, Robyn Brown and Meri Brown. TLC
Sister wivesRobyn broke down in tears when Kody and Meri officially ended their marriage in front of her
“What I really liked about living in a polygamous marriage was the teamwork, where I had sisters,” she told PEOPLE, sharing how she “really wanted that friendship” and a sense of “sisterhood” with her marriage to Kody.
“I wanted that experience of my sister wives loving my kids and being able to love my kids and having them feel like a big, happy family, a big group of people who really care about each other,” she continued. “So that’s what I liked about it.”
While collective harmony and reconciliation seems like a lofty goal, Robyn shared her hopes that it’s still “possible” for everyone to remain a “family.”
“It seems a little different,” she said of the family’s current dynamic. “Certainly I hope it’s possible, but I can’t have expectations. I can’t expect from people, I understand more and more, as far as families and that connection and spending time together and things and operational kind of families. So I hope and I pray that it is possible, but it will be a situation where everyone will have to choose it. So I don’t know.”
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Sister wives airs Sundays at 10pm ET on TLC.
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