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Kody Brown: Being Married to Meri is THE WORST!

Emily Trainham Kody Brown

If you’ve seen any episode of Sister Wives — like any episode ever, pretty much — you’ve probably seen that Kody and Meri Brown don’t exactly have the best relationship.

And if you’ve seen an episode from the past few seasons, you know that’s a massive understatement.

Meri has been with Kody since the very beginning — she was his very first wife, and his only legal one until they divorced so he could legally marry Robyn, a move that was required so he could adopt her three children from her first marriage.

But as we’ve observed on the show, things haven’t always been great between them.

In the early seasons, they struggled with Meri’s infertility and with the fact that she was only able to give birth to one child while the other sister wives have had several.

Then, of course, came the catfish scandal — you remember, that whole thing where Meri was so miserable in her marriage that she had an emotional affair with a man that turned out to be a deceitful woman.

This put a strain on their marriage for obvious reasons, and in the years since they’ve only grown further apart.

Things got so bad that at the end of the last season of the show, Meri declared that their relationship was “dead.”

So how is their relationship now?

Well, judging by a new sneak peek for this week’s episode, it’s still really terrible.

The clip, which you can watch in full below, begins with Meri, Kody, and Robyn out for a walk.

As Robyn explains in a later interview, “Kody and Meri don’t need more, kind of like misunderstandings or even like issues in their relationship. They’re already struggling right now.”

Kody agrees in an interview of his own — according to him, “My relationship with at Meri is, at best, just distant and amicable.”

“You know, I could buck up, put my backpack on and go for a run, be tough about it, but I’m just not interested in it.”

He says that “For all of my marriage with Meri, I’ve felt like she unloads her emotions into a burden that I’m supposed to carry.”

“I’m not carrying this burden,” he says. “There’s no reason that I should.”

Yikes, right?

There’s some footage of their walk, which is silent and awkward, then Kody gets right back to talking about what a bummer it is to be with Meri.

“I haven’t put effort into that relationship specifically because I have three other relationships that are rewarding and wholesome and with children that need me, need to see me,” he explains.

Over in Meri’s interview, she says that “I’m really careful about pushing Kody because I don’t want him to feel like I’m being demanding or pushy or anything like that, so I feel like I’ve made it known to him enough where I want the relationship to go as far as even just moving forward and just starting to figure things out.”

“It’s best to just leave the ball in his court.”

Meanwhile, we hear Kody say “Neither of us see real value in the relationship, ’cause if Meri and I really wanted to be together, we would.”

A romance for the ages, huh?

We know that marriage is very important in their religion and that divorce has never really seemed to be an option, but you’d think that if both of them were this sick of each other, they’d be able to figure something out.

It’s just getting uncomfortable to see how much contempt he seems to have for her and to see them pretend like this is working.

Guys … it’s not working.

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Kody Brown: Turns Out Polygamy Kind of Sucks!

Emily Trainham Kody Brown

It’s a great day to be a Sister Wives fan!

At long last, nearly a year after the last season wrapped up, it’s finally time for the new season to premiere.

And not a moment too soon, right?

Thanks to social media, we know a little bit about what’s been going on with the Brown family.

We know about Maddie’s baby and the health issues she’s faced, and we know that Mykelti is pregnant with her first child!

We’ve also heard about Ysabel’s big surgery to help with her scoliosis.

But those are all pretty big things — we don’t know about the little issues, or the day-to-day drama we know comes with being a sister wife.

They usually save all that for the show.

And judging by a new sneak peek for the season premiere, we know that the drama is definitely alive and well.

In the video, which you can watch in full below, we see Kody, Meri, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn all gathered around a table, having a chat.

It seems like they’re having a big discussion about the family and their dynamics, because we see Janelle asking Robyn about why she chose to “enter the principle,” which she explains to the camera later is their “real term” for plural marriage.

Everyone seems taken aback by this question, so Janelle takes the time to explain her reasoning for wanting to be a sister wife.

“I did it because I loved the idea of the whole family,” she says, “and this whole group’s energy, and I really felt like we would get progression, the whole idea is that we would overcome our crap.”

The “crap,” she clarifies later, is being selfish.

Meri says that she wanted to be a sister wife because she grew up in that lifestyle, and Christine’s story is basically the same.

“The big family thing was always really cool to me,” Robyn says. “I loved when I first met you guys how you guys functioned. I loved it.”

“We seemed so functional,” Kody interjects, and Meri laughs and says “We really pulled the wool over your eyes.”

Robyn tells them that’s not what she meant, and that she thinks they still function well as a family, but Kody seems to disagree.

“I’ve thought about this a lot lately,” he begins, “because I’ve told friends recently that I didn’t want to be an advocate of plural marriage anymore.”

Say what?!

“I am more aware now than I ever was before the apparent and obvious unfairness in the relationship,” he continues. “I know I have all the love I want and you guys sometimes feel like you’re pining constantly for me to give you some.”

He says that he was recently having dinner with Logan, one of the family’s many children, and that he told him “I have really messed this up.”

Kody tells the camera later more about all of this, saying “We came into this by way of commandment, we felt like we were supposed to live it and we had an ideal that it was a better way, and I’ve come to a stark reality of the struggle that it is.”

And that’s it, that’s the clip.

So this is a huge deal, right?

After all, Kody has been defending plural marriage since the series began — how many times have we heard him saying “love should be multiplied, not divided” in the show’s opening?

He’s refused to really listen to his wives talk about how difficult it is to share their husband because he’s always believed so strongly that it was the right way to live.

To hear him finally acknowledge how hard it must be for his wives is …well, it’s really something.

So where do they go from here?

Is he going to try to divide his attention more evenly between the wives? Is he going to allow them to have other relationships if they’d like?

Is he going do what many fans of the show think he’s doing anyway and focus solely on Robyn, who seems to be his favorite?

Guess we’ll have to watch to find out!

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