Kody and Meri Brown.Photo: Ida Mae Astute/Walt Disney Television via Getty
AlthoughMeriandKody Brown’s marriage is in on shaky ground, she isn’t giving up on their relationship.
Speaking with PEOPLE ahead of the season 10 premiere, Meri and her sister wives each opened up about how their relationships with one another and Kody had changed over the past decade since the TLC series premiered.
“I think that all relationships, you know, have issues that they have to work through. And I think that’s just kind of where we’re at right now,” Meri, 50, told PEOPLE in February. “For me personally, I’m not one that’s going to give up.”
“I’m just going to keep at it, you know? Ebb and flows in the relationship … I think that’s just kind of normal,” she continued.
Kody and Meri Brown.Meri Brown/Instagram
She also said she and Kody, 52, were “in a place where we’re just figuring out where we are and, you know, what is happening.”
The latest episode chronicled the onset of the pandemic, which only deepened the sense of separation that had emerged among the plural family, who were already living apart in four separate homes in Flagstaff, Arizona. (Kody and his wives have acombined 18 children.)
But for Kody and Meri, not seeing one another frequently wasn’t much of a change. Meri revealed that while Kody — who was the only one going back and forth between the homes — visited her fellow three sister wives, he didn’t come to her house much.
And Kody acknowledged that he was only seeing his first wife “once in a blue moon,” saying they “quit dating” in large part because he stopped pursuing her.
Kody Brown and his wives.Christine Brown/Instagram
His relationship with Meri has been strained for years, though. Attempting to repair their relationship after Meri’scatfishing scandalin 2015, Kody and Meri entered therapy to deal with the emotional fallout. He would later admit that he no longerdesired to be intimate with her.
On a recent episode, Kody reflected, “My relationship with Meri is at best justdistant and amicable. You know, I could buck up … be tough about it, but I’m not interested in it.”
Sister Wivesairs Sundays (10 p.m. ET) on TLC.
source: people.com
