Even so, the decision did little to repair her strained relationship with the father of her 18 children.
Ending a marriage that had lasted for decades was painful, but the 55-year-old Meri said she moved forward believing “things were going to be OK—and they were not.” Kody, she recalled, treated her well for only “maybe a month.”
Meri also felt he should have shown more appreciation, especially since she had helped make it possible for him to live as a monogamous man.
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Over the next decade, Kody’s second and third wives, Janelle Brown and Christine Brown, also confirmed their separations from the 57-year-old Sister Wives patriarch. Meri, who married Kody in 1990, publicly acknowledged the end of their relationship in 2022. That left Robyn as his only wife, both legally and in real life.
Meri stopped short of claiming that Kody and Robyn deliberately engineered the outcome of their relationship. Still, she said, “if it wasn’t a plan, it worked very well in his favor.” Looking back, she added, “I definitely would have done things differently when I divorced him had I been legally married to him still.”
Because the legal details of their separation had already been resolved, Meri believed Kody gained a clear advantage. “I think he absolutely benefited,” she said. “So, he can call himself lucky.”