Meri Is ‘The Other Woman’ With Kody, Robyn

During the newest episode of Sister Wives, Meri Brown opened up about feeling just like the third wheel whereas spending time with Kody Brown and Robyn Brown.

During the episode, which aired on Sunday, September 10, and was filmed in December 2022, Meri, 52, celebrated Christmas Eve with Kody, 54, and Robyn, 44.

“It’s probably very awkward for Meri. This is mine and Robyn’s house,” Kody mentioned of the festivities throughout a confessional. “Robyn and I always have to tone down our romantic tension completely.”

Robyn added throughout her personal confessional: “I know that it’s different for Meri and Kody. Out of respect for her and out of love for her, I’m careful.”

Despite Kody and Robyn’s efforts, Meri nonetheless felt misplaced. “Kody doesn’t hide things well and I’m well aware. It’s kind of like being the other woman,” she mentioned with amusing.

Meri and Kody had been legally married from 1990 to 2014 and continued to be spiritually married for years after that. Their rocky relationship has performed out on the Sister Wives over time. During the season 17 finale of the TLC sequence, which aired in December 2022, Kody mentioned, “I don’t want to be in a relationship with [Meri] anymore.”

In January, the duo launched a joint assertion saying that they’d determined to “permanently terminate” their marriage. The exes share one youngster: Leon, 28, who introduced in June 2022 that they’re transgender and use they/them pronouns.

While Kody celebrated with Meri and Robyn throughout Sunday’s episode, his exes Janelle Brown and Christine Brown had their very own Christmas get collectively at a trip rental.

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“For the last 30 years, I’ve celebrated Christmas as a family,” Janelle, 54, mentioned throughout a confessional, noting that it felt “peaceful” and “joyful” to alter issues up this 12 months. She spent Christmas Day with simply her sons Garrison, 24, and Gabe, 21, and daughter Savannah, 18, all of whom she shares with Kody. Their son Hunter, 26, arrived on the rental later. (Janelle and Kody additionally share son Logan, 29, and daughter Maddie, 27.)

Janelle, who confirmed that she and Kody had “been separated for several months” in the course of the December 2022 Sister Wives: One-on-One particular, additionally opened up about telling her kids that her and Kody’s relationship was on the rocks.

“I kind of told the kids their dad and I had had a really bad fight that we probably weren’t coming back from,” she instructed cameras. “My kids weren’t surprised, they’ve observed our relationship for several years and thought maybe it was time for me to do something different, find something better.”

Christine, 51, in the meantime, arrived on the trip rental later, the place she stayed for a number of days. “Just having everybody in the same place again, it already feels festive,” she mentioned in the course of the episode.

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Christine, who spiritually married Kody in 1995, determined to finish the connection and relocate to Utah in November 2021. That March, she solely instructed Us Weekly that she felt like she’d misplaced her voice within the household.

“Anytime we’ve had major decisions, I go through a time where I’m like, ‘Does my opinion really even matter here?’ That’s when we struggle the most … is when I feel like I don’t really have a say or I don’t really have an opinion,” she mentioned on the time.

Kody expressed disappointment over the tip of their marriage throughout an October 2022 episode of Sister Wives.

“I’m living in a delusional world where I’m wishing Christine didn’t leave. I’m struggling with sort of a state of regret and frustration,” he mentioned in a confessional. “It’s a weird thing to be getting left. It’s made me question getting into plural marriage. Question my faith. The message we had to the world about functional polygamy seems so dysfunctional now.”

During Sunday’s episode, Kody opened up about celebrating the vacations with out Janelle and Christine.

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“Tomorrow’s gonna be Christmas, and we’ll be super focused on who’s here and who we love and stuff like that. But I’m coming at this with a deficit. My bank account of love has been just [emptied],” he mentioned. “My heart has just been ripped to pieces. And I’m not yet in that place that I keep praying I can get to where I’m just accepting what has happened and where we’re at.”

Kody shares daughters Aspen, 28, Mykelti, 27, Gwendolyn, 21, Ysabel, 20, and Truely, 13, and son Paedon, 25 with Christine. He and Robyn share son Solomon, 11, and daughter Ariella, 7. Kody additionally adopted Robyn’s three kids from a earlier marriage: son Dayton, 21, and daughters Aurora, 21, and Breanna, 19.

Sister Wives airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on TLC, MAX, and Discovery+.