Kody’s ‘Resistant’ to Meri’s Divorce Request By means of Church

Meri and Kody Brown have differing opinions on tips on how to finest navigate their separation.

Throughout the Sunday, Sept. 22 episode of Sister Wives, Kody shared an enormous replace within the aftermath of his breakup with Meri.

“About eight weeks in the past, Meri advised me that she was going to go to Utah, meet with our church leaders and mainly request a divorce,” Kody, 55, advised the cameras. “It is referred to as a launch in our church.”

As a result of all 4 of Kody’s wives wed him by their church” (a.okay.a. the Apostolic United Brethren) and created what they referred to as a “covenant,” Meri mentioned she believes “it is best to terminate that as a result of we’re not shifting ahead with any marriage.”

“I do not need to be, like, sealed to him for eternity if he does not need me,” Meri, 53, continued. “I am at a spot that like, let’s simply separate this fully.”

Meri then famous in her confessional that when she was “asking Kody how he felt about shifting ahead with the discharge, he was sort of proof against it.” The businesswoman added that her ex-husband “did not need to acknowledge the authority of the church leaders.”

Nevertheless, from Kody’s perspective, “the harm was carried out so badly that we’re not going to reconcile it doesn’t matter what.”

“Nevertheless we’re made accountable to God, I do not need to be accountable to this church and all their BS,” Kody added. “So I will let Meri go and do her factor as a result of if I am offended at her, it turns into a battle. I wanted her simply to go away as a result of it simply took ceaselessly for her to lastly notice it has been carried out and over for years.”

Conscious that she has “been residing in limbo on this relationship for almost a decade,” Meri is “simply not going to maintain doing that.”

“I am shifting ahead with this,” she concluded.

Meri and Kody had been collectively for over 32 years earlier than confirming their separation publicly in January 2023. She went on to have a short relationship with Amos Andrews.

Earlier than Meri and Kody referred to as it quits, Kody’s fellow wives Christine Brown and Janelle Brown selected to go away him inside a 12 months of one another. Now, Robyn Brown is Kody’s solely remaining spouse.

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