After years of working on her marriage, Meri Brown says she’s frustrated that Kody won’t reciprocate the effort on an upcoming episode of “Sister Wives.”
The reality star, 51, sits down with Kody, Robyn and Janelle for a family gathering in the new episode and the group discuss the status of their plural marriage now that Christine has left for Utah.
In an exclusive clip shared with TODAY.com, Meri points out that Kody was so heartbroken about his split from Christine, but refuses to mend their relationship.
“It’s interesting to hear him talk about this and the parallels that happen with him and Christine and me and him,” she says in a confessional. “It’s a little unsettling because some of the things he’s frustrated about with Christine, he did to me. He wants to work on it with Christine, but not me.”
Back at the family gathering, Robyn speaks up, saying, “If people are just tired of trying and they don’t want to get out, then I need to know.”
Meri addresses Robyn directly at this point and makes her intentions clear.
“Robyn, I think you and I have had enough conversations about this that you know exactly where I am. And I’m still here because I’m still trying. Six years later I’m still here. Ten years, 15, 20 years later I’m still here. It’s what I want,” she says.
What Meri doesn’t say, but refers to, is the 2015 catfishing scandal that caused a rift in her marriage. She entered into an online relationship with a person she thought was a man, but was in fact a female fan.
In the past, Kody has said he felt their marriage was “dissolved” after the catfishing incident.
Meri said in an earlier episode of Season 17 that their relationship further disintegrated when she asked if they could take a break amid tension. “I said, ‘Can we just go through some of this stuff? Can we take a break?” she said “He interpreted that when I kicked him out and he never came back.”
