What Kody Brown Said He Quit Doing With His Wife Meri
Sister Wives stars Kody Brown and Meri Brown have revealed a major detail about their controversial relationship. Kody and first wife Meri hardly have a conventional relationship as the stars of the long-running TLC reality series, which follows their lives as a polygamist family with a combined 18 children. In addition to Meri, Kody is also married to Janelle, Christine, and Robyn.
The March 21, 2021 episode followed the family amid the coronavirus pandemic and gave an insight into how the group dealt with Kody trying to spend time with each wife and their children as they remained at their four respective homes. The episode also saw Kody and Meri give a big relationship update, which fans of the show will know has been on very rocky ground for a while. The two wed in 1990, and Meri was Kody's only wife until he married Christine four years later, per People. His marriage to Meri was the only one considered legal until they divorced in 2014 so that he could marry Robyn, though Kody considers himself to be married to all four women.
So, what did Kody and Meri have to say about where things stand between them, and what have they stopped doing? Read on for more.
Kody Brown and Meri Brown barely see each other
In a confessional video (via People) on the March 21, 2021 episode of Sister Wives, Kody Brown admitted that he and wife Meri Brown stopped having date nights and confirmed he stopped calling her to ask to spend time together. Meri shared she's felt "really lonely" and said Kody had barely visited her recently. However, Meri admitted it actually wasn't too much of a change for her to not see him often, as their relationship remains strained.
"He doesn't typically come to my house very often. Maybe now that Mariah and Audrey are here, he might come and visit with them at the end of the two weeks," Meri said, referring to Kody's fiancée, Audrey, and their daughter, Mariah, who moved in with Meri amid the pandemic. "He basically is just going to be going between Janelle and Christine and Robyn, that's typically what he does. Just calling it like it is," she said.
Kody said, "My relationship with Meri is -– at best –- just distant and amicable" (per The Sun). He admitted that there's "been nothing going" between them for a while, sharing that they only really have interactions on special occasions and "get together once in a while." What's next for the duo is anyone's guess, though it's likely the cameras will be there to capture it all.