Meri and Kody Brown have differing opinions on methods to greatest navigate their separation.
Through the Sunday, Sept. 22 episode of Sister Wives, Kody shared a giant replace within the aftermath of his breakup with Meri.
“About eight weeks in the past, Meri instructed me that she was going to go to Utah, meet with our church leaders and mainly request a divorce,” Kody, 55, instructed the cameras. “It is known as a launch in our church.”
As a result of all 4 of Kody’s wives wed him by their church” (a.okay.a. the Apostolic United Brethren) and created what they known as a “covenant,” Meri stated she believes “it is best to terminate that as a result of we’re not shifting ahead with any marriage.”
“I do not wish to be, like, sealed to him for eternity if he does not need me,” Meri, 53, continued. “I am at a spot that like, let’s simply separate this fully.”
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Meri then famous in her confessional that when she was “asking Kody how he felt about shifting ahead with the discharge, he was type of proof against it.” The businesswoman added that her ex-husband “did not wish to acknowledge the authority of the church leaders.”
Nevertheless, from Kody’s perspective, “the injury was accomplished so badly that we’re not going to reconcile it doesn’t matter what.”
“Nevertheless we’re made accountable to God, I do not wish to be accountable to this church and all their BS,” Kody added. “So I will let Meri go and do her factor as a result of if I am indignant at her, it turns into a combat. I wanted her simply to go away as a result of it simply took perpetually for her to lastly notice it has been accomplished and over for years.”
Conscious that she has “been residing in limbo on this relationship for almost a decade,” Meri is “simply not going to maintain doing that.”
“I am shifting ahead with this,” she concluded.
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Meri and Kody had been collectively for over 32 years earlier than confirming their separation publicly in January 2023. She went on to have a quick relationship with Amos Andrews.
Earlier than Meri and Kody known as it quits, Kody’s fellow wives Christine Brown and Janelle Brown selected to go away him inside a yr of one another. Now, Robyn Brown is Kody’s solely remaining spouse.
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Sister Wives airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on TLC.
