Things between Meri and Kody Brown have been bad for a very, very, very long time.

If you’ve ever watched basically any episode of Sister Wives, you know that.

They’ve said that their relationship hasn’t been great for years and years, but things obviously got much worse a few years ago when they got divorced.

Since Meri was Kody’s first wife, they were the only ones who were legally married — he had “spiritual marriages” with Janelle, Christine, and Robyn.

But the family decided that since Robyn had three children from a previous marriage, the smart thing to do would be for Meri and Kody to get divorced so that he could legally marry Robyn, which would be necessary for him to adopt those kids.

It made sense, but it obviously hurt Meri very much.

Around this same time, she began speaking with her catfish, and although she maintained it was just a friendship, lots of people (including her own daughter) thought that she’d developed romantic feelings for that person.

She even admitted that she’d considered leaving Kody during this time.

As we saw on the show, things were very strained with Meri and Kody for a long time after this, and they’re still not doing too well.

But as we see in this new sneak peek for the upcoming episode, things may be completely beyond repair.

The clip begins with the two of them traveling to an appointment with their therapist, and in a confessional, we hear Meri say that “Our relationship has been pretty rocky.”

“People ask me all the time why I don’t leave,” she continued.

In his own confessional, Kody says “Meri and I had a very fast courtship. I didn’t know who I was marrying.”

But then comes the big shocker.

During their actual therapy session, Meri flat-out says “The relationship between he and I is gone, it’s dead, it’s over.”

The therapist asks her if she’s serious — she seems a bit taken aback by the statement.

Unfortunately, we’re going to have to wait until the episode airs to hear Meri’s response, although she does sound pretty certain about it.

Back in the confessional, Kody says “I am just done with hearing how I am wrong.”

And that’s it — that’s the clip.

We have to remember that this is a reality show, and it’s also a sneak peek for a reality show, so sometimes footage is spliced up in a way that will hopefully entice people to tune in.

But still, there aren’t too many ways to read Meri gesturing to Kody and saying that their relationship is dead, you know?

Check out the full clip in the video below:

Normally, Sister Wives viewers are filled with nothing but sympathy for Meri Brown. She has the worst luck.

But as Kody Brown was clearly getting sick of Meri, a lot of fans felt the same. Is she becoming a villain in the family drama?

Meri has made it known in the past that she likes living on land that is lined with trees.

Kody, for once thinking of someone other than himself, offered Meri the parcel of land that’s already treed.

Meri shocked Kody, her fellow sister wives, and viewers by suddenly announcing that trees at her last home prevented her from getting ample sunlight.

It wasn’t just that she changed her tune that had people frustrated.

See, she voiced her complaints about this parcel, but didn’t just announce that she wants a different one.

Instead, Meri seemed to be of two minds about it.

Since she neither accepts nor declines the parcel outright, Kody blows up — which, even with his understandable frustration, is very toxic.

Even Robyn seemingly admits that her defense of Meri wasn’t entirely justified. And fans were livid.

“Meri is a spoiled punk,” writes one commenter. “Always gets her way … get a grip!”

The comment continues: “Kody needs to put his foot down with her and stand firm.”

“After all is said and done,” another opines, “Merry needs just to say where she wants her house to be.”

That same fan comments that they are “done with it dragging out too much.”

“I’m generally Team Meri,” another admits, “becuase I generally feel like he treats her like a Step Wife.”

“However,” the fan adds, “this past episode she was a bit ridiculous.”

Someone who couldn’t spell either name correctly wrote: “Cody [sic] is so right about Mary [sic] … always the victim.”

“A side of Meri not previously shown,” another observes. “Self centered and unapologetic.”

Janelle goes on to explain that Meri has always been territorial, sometimes to a point that her family felt was absurd.

Some fans still think that Meri should get first dibs, even if she is being indecisive to the point of unfairness.

That way, it’s still in order of first wife, second wife, third wife, and fourth wife — Robyn.

But others think that Meri had her chance to choose and blew it. If she can’t make a choice, let the other thee decide for her.

Now, I’m no big city psychologist, but I have to agree with a growing number of fans who think that Meri’s feelings have nothing to do with trees.

(Or with pond access, for that matter)

Building a new house on a new plot of land is a huge decision.

Even if you are theoretically in favor of it, sometimes people find ways of making excuses to put off an inevitable, important choice.

Meri isn’t the only one who is anxious.

Janelle, for example, is concerned that if Meri takes a different plot, she may block access to the pond.

(It’s a giant mud puddle right now but it could be made nicer)

And Robyn is basically expecting table scraps regardless. This is a weird and complicated situation.

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Sister Wives fans have a lot of opinions, but you’d be hard pressed to find one who doesn’t agree that Kody Brown sucks.

It’s not just fans who think that. Meri has had it up to here with Kody speaking for her, and she has taken to Twitter to put him on blast.

“I do have to say, I can’t speak for all of us,” Meri Brown’s tweet delicately begins.

“But when Kody says ‘all’ of us can’t handle seeing him with another woman,” she writes, “he is so wrong.”

Meri notes that he is incorrect “and shouldn’t be speaking for me.”

She follows those words with the shrug emoji.

Apparently, Meri’s tweet caused enough of a stir for Kody to reply with a quote-tweet.

“Okay, sorry that I ‘generalized’ again,” he begins, though we’re unsure why he included passive aggressive quotation marks around “generalized.”

“It is true that I sometimes accuse them of ‘all’ doing something,” Kody admits.

His tweet concludes by saying that his accusations tend to involve something “that usually is one wife only.”

Jealousy is something that can rear its ugly head even in the most loving and committed plural marriages.

Just as some people could never be happy in a monogamous relationship, others feel stabs of emotional pain even though they wish that they didn’t.

Some would say that this is the result of a conflict between who they are as people and their religious belief in polygamy.

Others would say that Kody is a toxic husband who simply doesn’t treat his wives equally, fairly, or give them enough emotional support.

Christine has been fairly vocal about her opposition to Kody’s dream of a huge house.

She has lived that way before — all of the sister wives cohabitated with Kody before Robyn entered the picture.

Christine is of the opinion that she is a better mother and also a better wife when she and her sister wives live in separate houses.

It’s not that she doesn’t love them, it’s just that she doesn’t want others walking into the bedroom when she and Kody are together. That’s fair.

In contrast, Janelle is all for Kody’s dream of building a polygamy palace for the entire Brown family.

Some Sister Wives fans have speculated that Janelle simply suffers from low self-esteem and will blindly follow anything that Kody suggests.

But Janelle’s stated reason is that she feels that the Brown family is not as close as they once were. She misses that.

Janelle thinks that everyone living under one roof will help the family become more closely knit.

Meri has her own reasons to be reluctant to share close quarters with Kody day in and day out.

At the moment, despite being his first wife, she has a strained relationship with Kody.

“It’s different than I want it to be at this point,” Meri has explained. “It’s easier for me to avoid.”

“I just think it would make it difficult to be in one home for me right now — just because of that,” she reasoned. Poor Meri.

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