When the show started, Kody had three wives: Meri, Janelle, and Christine Brown.
He later married his fourth wife, Robyn Brown, in 2014.
Over the years, Kody’s relationship with his wives became more and more strained.
Perhaps this is partly because he’s happy with his fourth and remaining wife, Robyn Brown.
Kody and Robyn “spiritually” married in 2010 and legally wed in 2014.
Furthermore, Kody and Robyn’s honeymoon lasted far longer in comparison to his other post-wedding getaways.
His relationship with Meri shifted in 2014
Meri Brown was the first of Kody Brown’s wives.
However, this dynamic changed after Robyn entered the household.
In 2014, Meri legally divorced Kody.
This was not done to dissolve their relationship.
Meri seemed at peace with the decision.
Kody switching to Robyn as his legal wife seemed to further distance his and Meri’s relationship.
And in the years that followed, Meri and Kody’s relationship became more and more strained.
“I just don’t see plural marriage in the same light that I used to.
The cynicism toward his wives showed he was starting to doubt their family as a unit.
Robyn seemed to agree with Meri but said the rules were up to Kody, not her.
Plural marriage is my toughest challenge.
See you next week.”
But for many viewers, this explanation of his behavior wasn’t enough.
He’d been very distant from Meri and often spoke poorly of her.
That puts her head and shoulders above you as a person in my eyes."
This came after years of struggling with their plural marriage and reportedly having multiple separations.
“He purports that he never saw this coming,” Janelle said in an exclusive clip shared toPeople.
“He’s been telling me for years that he wasn’t attracted to Christine.
They were struggling in their marriage.”
I felt pressured into the marriage."
And I’m what, going to have nothing for the rest of my life?"
Christine’s final decision to leave only solidified the end of their partnership.
“Every once in a while, I just get tied up in knots over Christine leaving.”
“It’s made me question getting into plural marriage.
It’s made me question my faith and especially question religion.
The message that we had to the world about functional polygamy seems so dysfunctional now,” Kody admitted.
Soon after Christine Brown left the marriage,Kody and Janelle Brown announced their separationin 2022.
Meri and Kody had their share of relationship problems, and they only became more distant over the years.
It’s distant, I don’t see her very often.
“You start looking up to the heavens and going, ‘Geez, Father.
You inspired me to do this.
Why is it such a mess now?'”
“It really has set me on my heels and had me questioning the lifestyle itself.
It’s a challenge.”
I question it all the time."
