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On Sunday’s episode ofSister Wives, the TLC star, 45, told Meri that she was “hanging on” with her amid her relationship struggles with Kody.
“I think you need to let go,” Meri, 52, responded. “It’s not fair to either of us. It’s not fair for me to be alone like I have been for years and it’s not fair for him to feel like he has to do a duty.”
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Within a span of 14 months, three of theSister Wivespatriarch’s marriages imploded. Kody’s third wife,Christine Brown, was thefirst to leavein November 2021. A year later in December 2022, it was revealed that he hadseparatedfrom his second wifeJanelle Brown. A month after that, his union with first wifeMeriwasconfirmedin January after the pair’s relationship had beenplatonicand distant for years.
“What I liked a lot about living plural marriage was the team effort, where I had sister wives,” she told PEOPLE, sharing how she “really wanted that camaraderie” andsense of “sisterhood"in addition to her marriage to Kody.
“I wanted that experience of my sister wives loving my children and being able to love their children and feeling like this kind ofbig, happy family, big group of peoplethat really cared about each other,” she continued. “So that’s what I liked about it.”
“It looks a little different,” she said of the family’s current dynamics. “I sure hope it’s possible, but I can’t have expectations. I can’t put expectations on people, I’m realizing more and more, as far as family and that connection and spending time together and stuff and operating kind of a family. So I hope and I pray that it’s possible, but that will be that a situation where everybody has to choose that. So I don’t know.”
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Sister Wivesairs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on TLC.
source: people.com
