Sister Wives' Meri Brown understood that dwelling in polygamy meant having to share her husband with different ladies — however she wasn't prepared for the emotional toll each new addition would convey.
“I knew that I'd have [an] emotion about it when anyone did lastly come into the household. And I did,” Meri, 54, recalled throughout the Sunday, November 9, episode of the TLC sequence. “I didn't deal with myself the very best on a regular basis.”
She continued, “I keep in mind being very jealous. You realize, individuals ask on a regular basis, ‘Had been you not jealous?' Properly, sure, I used to be. How are you going to not be jealous?”
Meri was Kody Brown's first spouse, legally marrying him in 1990. Three years later, they expanded their household with the addition of Janelle Brown, who spiritually wed Kody, 56, in 1993. Christine Brown joined the polygamist brood in 1994, and Robyn Brown rounded out the household in 2010.
With each new spouse got here extra feelings for Meri, who confessed, “I assumed I used to be dwelling polygamy incorrect.”
She remembered pondering that due to the jealousy, she was “a human being [doing it] incorrect.”
“I assumed I used to be a lady incorrect, a spouse incorrect. I couldn't actually have a child, for heaven's sake, you understand?” Meri stated. “So every thing about me was incorrect. It was arduous.”
All through her marriage to Kody, Meri weathered many storms, together with solely having the ability to have one little one, Leon, in July 1995.
After Meri legally divorced Kody in 2014 so he might marry Robyn, 47, and undertake her three kids from one other marriage, their relationship took a success. Meri and Kody did overcome Meri's catfishing scandal in 2015, however the plural household as an entire started to unravel just a few years later.
“Polygamy dilutes a wedding since you don't must spend the time that it takes to make your relationship higher,” Christine claimed throughout Sunday's episode.
Christine, 53, introduced her cut up from Kody in November 2021, and Janelle confirmed their separation in December 2022. Meri and Kody, in the meantime, launched a joint assertion in January 2023, revealing that the 2 had parted methods.
Trying again on their polygamist way of life and values, each Meri and Christine revealed on Sunday's episode that the faith allegedly promotes unhappiness within the hopes of getting a greater afterlife.
“It's an fascinating concept within the church tradition that we got here from, that struggling was going to make you higher,” Meri informed the cameras. “As a result of for those who endure, then you've it made.”
Nevertheless, that mind-set doesn't sit properly with Meri. “I don't suppose that we have to endure the ache and the struggles and the challenges,” she stated. “I feel what we have to do is work out the way to undergo them.”
Christine had the same outlook on the church's practices after getting married to David Woolley in October 2023 and selecting to dwell monogamy.
After David, 61, informed Christine that in his opinion polygamy creates “a number of hate, a number of jealousy, a number of management,” principally by the hands of the boys, she confirmed that jealousy and competitors among the many ladies does occur.
“If I'm having a nasty time with Kody in a nasty scenario, I don't wish to see him being bodily affectionate with different wives in entrance of me,” Christine defined, calling it a “slap within the face.”
Whereas Christine stated she by no means felt like Kody “managed” her, she informed David that the church did preach that having the ability to cope with the person's ego and the jealousy issue made them “higher” individuals.
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“They train you that it makes you higher. You are feeling these emotions, you be taught to cope with these emotions, and then you definately transfer on and also you change into a greater individual,” she recalled.
David argued, “No, they inform you to let go of these emotions,” to which Christine agreed.
“The well-known quote is, ‘Endure to the top,'” Christine stated. “Principally go forward and have a depressing life as a result of while you die, you earn the celestial kingdom, you earn all the best way up and also you get to dwell with God for those who endure. That's unhappy.”
Christine famous that for her, she simply wished to “take pleasure in to the top,” as a substitute of struggling.
Sister Wives airs on TLC Sundays at 10 p.m. ET.
