‘I Was Trying to Reconcile With Meri’

The nice divide. Kody Brown revealed the second between him and Meri Brown that just about mounted their relationship forward of their official break up.

“When we moved to Flagstaff, Arizona, I was trying to reconcile with Meri,” Kody, 53, claimed throughout half 1 of the Sister Wives: One-on-One particular, which aired on Sunday, December 18. “Meri gave me this really cool present and I’m in this place, telling Janelle [Brown], Christine [Brown] and Robyn [Brown] that I might reconcile with Meri.”

The patriarch alleged that in that second, “Christine lost her s—t” and later got here to a household social gathering the place she yelled “that she was in a loveless marriage.” (Christine, for her half, introduced her break up from Kody in November 2021 after greater than 25 years of marriage.)

Kody hinted that Christine, 50, was not on board with him mending fences with Meri, 51, on the time. The TLC persona later revealed that the present in query was her selfmade Rice Krispies Treats given to him on his and Meri’s thirtieth anniversary.

“She put a bag full of them. One for every year of our marriage. She included even our bad years,” he defined on Sunday’s episode. “The expression was sweet and the mood that I was in was the right mood to try and think about reconciliation. It wasn’t what it was.”

The Wyoming native, who shares Leon, 27, with Meri, confessed: “I was no longer angry with her for what I had gone through in my life with her. I was willing to see the error of my ways and then work to determine whether we were good with each other anymore.”

Meri, for her half, had no thought the present left a mark on her estranged partner. “That’s interesting that he felt like that. Because that is also the same day that we went out on a picnic and he was saying, ‘No, you’re supposed to have been courting me,’” she remembered. “I said, ‘Kody, I’ve been waiting for you’ and he’s like, ‘I’m not coming.’”

The Bed and Breakfast proprietor, who legally married Kody in April 1990, revealed that in their 2020 anniversary date, she made a transfer to try to reconnect.

“After I turned off my camera, I put my arms around him. Up around his neck and I said, ‘What would you do if I just kissed you right now?’” she instructed tell-all host Sukanya Krishnan. “He was physically [straight like] a board. And he was backing up. He’s like, ‘I can’t do that.’”

Meri added: “It makes me feel good that he was considering it, but it didn’t last through the evening, I guess.”

The Becoming Sister Wives coauthor additionally famous that she “would be open” to getting again collectively following the pair’s separation.

Elsewhere within the episode, Meri confirmed that she and Kody had referred to as it quits. She defined that after listening to her former partner say throughout season 17 that he now not “considered” himself married to her, she acquired the message.

“This last anniversary, he’s like, ‘I don’t even know why you called me, Meri.’ He’s like, ‘We’re not married. We’re not acting as married,’” the fact star claimed. “And I said to him then, ‘If that’s where we are, don’t you think we should address that publicly?’”

The California native alleged that Kody didn’t need to “address it,” and instructed her that in the event that they went public there could be extra “judgment” about their plural household.

When requested the place that leaves the couple, Meri replied, “He’s already made the decision” that they’ve break up. She added: “I would [think about reconciliation]. I don’t think that he’s interested.”

Following the primary tell-all episode, Kody’s solely relationship left intact is with Robyn, 43. The couple legally wed in 2014 — and Kody adopted Robyn’s three youngsters from a earlier relationship — after legally divorcing first spouse Meri.

While Meri and Kody remained spiritually married, viewers watched their romance fizzle out this previous season after 32 years. Janelle, in the meantime, confirmed in December that she had been “separated for several months” from the patriarch after greater than 25 years of marriage.

Part 2 of the Sister Wives: One-on-One particular airs Sunday, January 1, at 10 p.m. ET.