The exes open up about their authorized divorce, Robyn denies “planting” the concept Kody ought to legally marry her as an alternative – earlier than Meri’s catfishing scandal comes up … once more!
In the case of what led to then finish of their marriage, Meri and Kody Brown have totally different takes.
On Sunday’s all-new Sister Wives, the exes seemed again on their authorized divorce, and the way the dynamic of their relationship modified after Meri cleared the best way for Kody to marry fourth spouse, Robyn Brown, and undertake her youngsters.
“When Kody and I received the authorized divorce, it was one thing that we had talked about collectively for years,” Meri defined in a confessional. “However on the time that it really occurred, I used to be the one who made that transfer and went to go discuss to the lawyer first as a result of I used to be simply in a spot of let’s simply do it, let’s simply rip the Band-Assist off, let’s simply get it achieved.”
Meri mentioned she initially thought that in the event that they have been in a position to wait till her relationship with Kody was stronger, she’d really feel extra assured about legally divorcing the Brown household patriarch — however noticed quickly after he married Robyn that issues started to alter.
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“I stored considering, if we will wait till our relationship is stronger, then I am going to really feel higher about doing it and I am going to really feel extra assured and I am going to really feel safer in our relationship,” she shared. “However that was by no means going to occur, clearly. It was inside six months that he stop coming across the full factor there too.”
Kody, in the meantime, checked out it extra from the authorized angle, telling viewers it was Meri who got here to him and inspired him to signal the paperwork and marry Robyn.
“Meri got here to me saying we have to simply do that divorce on paper to be able to undertake Robin’s children. In my thoughts, we have been simply shuffling a authorized paperwork,” Kody mentioned in a confessional. “Meri and I, after that divorce, left Robyn and went to dinner collectively. I gave her a particular ring and we in all probability went dwelling and made love.”
He continued, “I imply, I am identical to going, ‘We’re not breaking this up.'”
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Listening to about Kody’s model of occasions, Meri referred to as it “disgusting” that her ex would convey up a “doubtlessly intimate second” like that between them on tv.
“I believe it is type of disgusting that he would convey up a doubtlessly intimate second with any person that he is divorced from, as a result of I can guaran-damn-tee you that he would by no means speak about these moments on this setting together with his spouse,” Meri mentioned, referencing the totally different manner he treats his relationship with Robyn.
Meri did be aware, nonetheless, that she and Kody weren’t in that “type of relationship” at the moment the place they might be getting intimate anyway.
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“I by no means felt like that authorized divorce did something to us,” Kody remarked.
“Meri volunteered it, however for some cause it nonetheless had an emotional influence on her as a result of shortly after was when she went via the catfish expertise,” he added, referencing a 2015 incident wherein Meri was duped by somebody she was chatting to on-line.
“By the point the catfishing scenario occurred, mine and Kody’s relationship was actually virtually non existent,” Meri defined, making an attempt to set the file straight. “I bear in mind after the authorized divorce considering, ‘Oh, he is good. This was the factor that I wanted to do.’ He was actually sort and he was current in our relationship for a month or so, and then you definitely simply cannot sustain a facade for too lengthy.”
“The catfishing scenario did not even start for perhaps 8 months after the authorized divorce,” she added.
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As for Kody’s different sister wives, all of them expressed issues about Meri divorcing Kody and Robyn getting into the fold, with Janelle Brown telling viewers she was speechless over the transfer.
“I used to be really form of speechless when she advised us that she was really doing it, as a result of I assumed, ‘Meri would by no means do that,'” Janelle mentioned in a confessional. “I already had began to see that there was somewhat little bit of favoritism for Robyn from Kody at that time, and I did fear.”
Christine Brown, in the meantime, mentioned she believes Robyn “planted” the concept of Meri divorcing Kody in order that Kody may undertake her children early on after assembly the Brown clan.
“So when Robyn first got here into the household, she began speaking to us about these different households the place the primary spouse divorced the husband so he may marry the second spouse legally and legally undertake the children,” Christine started. “And I bear in mind considering, ‘Yeah, that is a plant.’ And he or she talked about that a number of instances via the years, like she was placing that in there as a result of she would have beloved that to occur.”
“I do not suppose Meri felt prefer it was planted. I believe Meri felt prefer it was her personal thought,” she added.
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Robyn, in the meantime, shut that principle down, telling viewers the concept that she “planted” something in Meri’s head “an absolute lie.”
“I do not even know anybody who divorced their first spouse in order that the second spouse may undertake children,” Robyn added. “I’ve by no means even heard of that earlier than.”
She continued, “Meri advised me when she made the provide that once we have been attending to know one another, she had had the concept in her head to supply to offer me the authorized marriage in order that Kody may undertake my children. I by no means even wished to be legally married to Kody. I used to be really actually grateful that I wasn’t going to be legally married to Kody as a result of I would gone via a lot trauma with my authorized divorce in my final marriage.”
“I used to be very glad and content material with my religious marriage,” she added. “I did not want anything.”
“Meri’s angle modified, the place I did not really feel like mine did,” Kody shared, with Meri explaining that when they have been legally divorced, intimacy did fall off for the couple, contributing to the demise of their three-decade union.
See the previous spouses proceed to share their aspect of the story on Sister Wives, airing Sundays at 10:00 p.m. ET on TLC.