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Sister Wives’ latest breakup has played out, and it was difficult for viewers to watch. Meri Brown has long lamented the lack of connection between her and Kody Brown, but the final nail in their relationship’s coffin came on the latest episode of the reality series. When Meri meets with Kody and Robyn, Robyn Brown becomes so emotional she has to exit the conversation.
Meri Brown maintained the breakup was a long time coming.
After telling Kody that she wouldn’t be renewing her lease in Flagstaff, focusing her time in Utah instead, the three came to the realization of where this conversation was headed.
“You want something that we can’t have together,” Kody tells Meri about her decision. “We can always have something else, but not that.”
Robyn, who was previously called Meri’s “advocate,” started to cry and walked away, tearfully telling cameras, “I can see where they’re going with this, and they’re both really calm, and that’s scaring me. I just don’t know how I’m supposed to sit here and watch them decide if this is what they’re going to do.”
Kody levels, “I sit here feeling like it’s ridiculous to stay in a duty-bound marriage.” Meri agrees, saying, “No, I don’t think it’s fair for either of us.”
When Robyn returned, Meri confirmed the conversation was the end of the relationship, to which Robyn asked if Meri was “accepting” of that.
“What else am I supposed to do with it, Robyn? I’m not going to force somebody to be with me who doesn’t want to be with me,” she says, frustrated. “I’m not going to make somebody act how they don’t want to act.”
As Kody reiterates that he’s willing to continue “performing my duty as a husband,” to which Meri stands up for herself, saying, “I am not going to be a duty.”
Kody Brown doubled down on the sentiment.
Speaking directly to cameras on Sister Wives, Kody says, “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 continued. “But if you’re going to insist, then we will. And she’s like, ‘I don’t want that.'”
In a confessional, he shares, “This is goodbye. It was a negotiation that was long overdue.”
“I mean, it’s been maybe a wasted seven years for Meri. I have no idea. But we’ve agreed now, and I hope she finds peace because I will,” he concluded.
