Kody Brownno longer feels the passion in his marriage toMeri Brown.
In PEOPLE’s exclusive sneak peek of Sunday’sSister Wivesepisode, the Brown family patriarch opens up about how his marriage with Meri is strained and has lost the spark it needs to keep it going.
“I feel like Meri and I have had a reasonably amiable relationship,” he says to the cameras. “It’s distant, I don’t see her very often. I don’t know what to do with a marriage that’s supposed to be eternal, but doesn’t have any fire.”
Meri Brown and Kody Brown.Ida Mae Astute/Walt Disney Television via Getty Images
“If Meri just sticks around long enough, and we get through what’s going on withChristine [Brown], and even you know, Kody andJanelle [Brown], figure out whatever they’re gonna do, and he can get through all of his anger and his emotions about everything, that they will have a chance to work it out,” she says.
In January, Meri and Kody announced their split in a joint message posted on their respective Instagram pages, writing, “After more than a decade of working on our relationship in our own unique ways, we have made the decision to permanently terminate our marriage relationship.”
Meri Brown and Kody Brown.Meri Brown/Instagram
The original Brown family pair experienced many issues over the years, withMeri’s catfish drama— in which she virtuallyconnected with a woman posing as a male admirer— serving as the tipping point in their strained relationship. From Meri’s perspective, she and Kody were “definitely” in “limbo land” for a while beforeannouncing their splitafter 32 years of marriage.
(L-R) Meri and Kody Brown are pictured on TLC’s ‘Sister Wives’.TLC (2)
“I don’t like living in limbo land. And I feel like I live there a lot, but what I like now is that any limbo land I’m living in is on me, and it’s not based on anybody else,” she recently told PEOPLE.
“I do wish that we could have had some of the conversations sooner. And also, I don’t know if I would’ve been ready to have some of the conversations sooner,” she continued. “So it’s not like I can live my life with regret and wish something would’ve happened. I think we all do that to some degree, but I know that there’s things that I needed to learn, and I know there’s things that I needed to do to be able to be in the place that I am right now with the whole thing.”
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Sister Wivesairs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on TLC.
source: people.com
