Meri Brown is celebrating a brand new chapter in her life!
Throughout an all-new episode of Sister Wives on Sunday, Dec. 29, the businesswoman, 53, opened up about shifting from Flagstaff, Ariz., to Parowan, Utah, and marking the recent begin with a housewarming social gathering at her mattress and breakfast, Lizzie’s Heritage Inn. The celebration additionally comes after her 32-year polyamorous marriage with Kody Brown got here to an finish.
“So it has been a number of months now that I’ve formally lived right here in Parowan, so we’re having a housewarming social gathering for me,” Meri says in a confessional-style clip. “It is superior to see so many individuals simply wish to hang around with me and have fun this subsequent chapter of my life as a result of that is completely what that is.”
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Scenes of Meri chatting with company and displaying them round the home throughout the social gathering then pan onto the display.
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She continues, “You recognize, I believe it is attention-grabbing that I am really right here dwelling in the home as a result of after I purchased the home, that was not the intention.”
“I do know Kody felt like that. I believe different family members did too, that it was my escape plan. That is like, no, no matter,” she provides. “I imply, I believe the escape plan was that authorized divorce. Let’s be actual, that was his escape plan.”
Together with Meri, Kody was married to Christine Brown, who was the primary to go away the plural marriage in November 2021, and Janelle Brown, who later confirmed her separation with Kody in December 2022. Robyn Brown is now Kody’s final remaining spouse from the preliminary polygamous marriage.
Meri and Kody went public with their break up in January 2023, and he or she was later accepted for an official termination of the wedding by her church.
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Along with celebrating her recent begin in Utah, Meri has one other subject on her thoughts post-divorce — courting!
“The social gathering went properly. It was straightforward and informal and in addition actually good to get to know some new folks on the town,” she explains throughout the episode, earlier than including, “There have been no courting prospects at this social gathering. Gosh dang it.”
She notes that it could be a good suggestion to host a “velocity courting social gathering” on the mattress and breakfast in some unspecified time in the future.
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Throughout an unique interview with PEOPLE in December, Meri opened up about courting once more following her short-lived relationship along with her now-ex Amos that ended earlier this 12 months.
“Proper now, I am courting, not completely. However you date non-exclusively, and you then’re like, ‘Okay, I can deal with this particular person. Let’s be unique,'” she instructed PEOPLE. “After which, see if it really works into one thing. That one simply did not. And so, we broke that off and now I am courting non-exclusively.”
Whereas she’s protecting her choices open within the courting scene, she additionally famous that it’s vital for her to deal with herself as a single girl.
“I am studying about myself. I am studying about different folks,” she stated. “I’m studying to belief myself and be like, ‘Hmm, I am getting a humorous vibe. This particular person’s simply not for me.’ Even when it is simply not a humorous vibe, nothing’s fallacious with an individual. It is simply not for me.”
Sister Wives airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on TLC.
