Sister Wives star Meri Brown was aware that embracing a polygamous lifestyle meant sharing her husband with other women, yet she hadn’t anticipated the deep emotional impact each new wife would bring.

During the November 9 episode of the TLC series, Meri, 54, reflected on her experiences. “I expected to feel some emotions when someone new joined the family, and indeed I did,” she shared. “There were times I didn’t manage my feelings very well.”

She added, “I distinctly recall feeling very jealous. People often ask, ‘Weren’t you jealous?’ Of course, I was. Who wouldn’t be?”

Meri was the first to wed Kody Brown, officially tying the knot in 1990. Their family grew with the spiritual marriage to Janelle Brown in 1993, followed by Christine Brown in 1994, and later Robyn Brown joined in 2010.

While Janelle and Christine Brown may no longer be Meri’s sister wives, they stood by her after her separation from Kody Brown. “I was a bit taken aback,” Janelle, 55, admitted during the November 10 episode of Sister Wives, after Meri, 53, shared the news of her official departure from Kody, 55, and […]

With every new wife came more emotions for Meri, who confessed, “I thought I was living polygamy wrong.”

She remembered thinking that because of the jealousy, she was “a human being [doing it] wrong.”

“I thought I was a woman wrong, a wife wrong. I couldn’t even have a baby, for heaven’s sake, you know?” Meri said. “So everything about me was wrong. It was hard.”

Throughout her marriage to Kody, Meri weathered many storms, including only being able to have one child, Leon, in July 1995.

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After Meri legally divorced Kody in 2014 so he could marry Robyn, 47, and adopt her three children from another marriage, their relationship took a hit. Meri and Kody did overcome Meri’s catfishing scandal in 2015, but the plural family as a whole began to unravel a few years later.

“Polygamy dilutes a marriage because you don’t have to spend the time that it takes to make your relationship better,” Christine claimed during Sunday’s episode.

Christine, 53, announced her split from Kody in November 2021, and Janelle confirmed their separation in December 2022. Meri and Kody, meanwhile, released a joint statement in January 2023, revealing that the two had parted ways.

Looking back on their polygamist lifestyle and values, both Meri and Christine revealed on Sunday’s episode that the religion allegedly promotes unhappiness in the hopes of having a better afterlife.

“It’s an interesting idea in the church culture that we came from, that suffering was going to make you better,” Meri told the cameras. “Because if you suffer, then you have it made.”

However, that way of thinking doesn’t sit well with Meri. “I don’t think that we need to endure the pain and the struggles and the challenges,” she said. “I think what we need to do is figure out how to go through them.”

Christine had a similar outlook on the church’s practices after getting married to David Woolley in October 2023 and choosing to live monogamy.

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After David, 61, told Christine that in his opinion polygamy creates “a lot of hate, a lot of jealousy, a lot of control,” mostly at the hands of the men, she confirmed that jealousy and competition among the women does happen.

“If I’m having a bad time with Kody in a bad situation, I don’t want to see him being physically affectionate with other wives in front of me,” Christine explained, calling it a “slap in the face.”

While Christine said she never felt like Kody “controlled” her, she told David that the church did preach that being able to deal with the man’s ego and the jealousy factor made them “better” people.

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“They teach you that it makes you better. You feel those feelings, you learn to deal with those feelings, and then you move on and you become a better person,” she recalled.

David argued, “No, they tell you to let go of those feelings,” to which Christine agreed.

“The famous quote is, ‘Endure to the end,’” Christine said. “Basically go ahead and have a miserable life because when you die, you earn the celestial kingdom, you earn all the way up and you get to live with God if you endure. That’s sad.”

Christine noted that for her, she just wanted to “enjoy to the end,” instead of suffering.

Sister Wives airs on TLC Sundays at 10 p.m. ET.