(L-R) Meri Brown and Kody Brown.Photo:TLC
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The momentMeriandKody Brownput an end to their marriage has finally occurred onSister Wives.
Meri had been spendingan increased amount of time in Utahfocusing on her bed and breakfast, Lizzie’s Heritage Inn, and her LuLaRoe clothing business. And while she still planned to keep her place in Flagstaff, Arizona, Meri now shared she “probably won’t be renewing my lease here” despite still intending to build a home on Coyote Pass.
Meri added: “I think she’s been my advocate for longer than that.”
“You want something that we can’t have together,” Kody said in response to Meri. “We can always have something else, but not that.”
The Brown family patriarch then noted that “the hardest thing is accepting that it’s not going to go back to a place that works for what you’re looking for,” leading Meri to express in a confessional how she didn’t like how Kody was “putting all this on me and he’s also not owning that he just doesn’t have the interest.”
However, to Kody, Meri said: “It doesn’t mean I’m not mad at you for not giving me what we promised each other.”
Meri Brown on ‘Sister Wives’.TLC
From Kody’s perspective, the “act” of “just performing my duty as a husband” is “easy.” But Meri countered, “I am not going to be a duty.”
“It wasn’t an act. It was performance. It was doing what I was supposed to. I’m sorry to call it an act,” said Kody as Meri added through laughter, “Nobody wants to be that. And I’ve experienced it and it’s not fun.”
Kody Brown on ‘Sister Wives’.TLC
Continuing further, Kody separately told the cameras: “I am willing to fake being in love with Meri, doing my duties as a husband, sort of putting up with things that frustrate me so deeply that I struggle to be around her.”
“I, if I need to, for the sake of whatever, I don’t know. I can fake through this. I don’t want to,” he added. “But if you’re going to insist, then we will. And she’s like, ‘I don’t want that.'”
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Kody, meanwhile, reflected on the entire situation in one final confessional.
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