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Kody Brownis getting real about his relationship with spiritualwife Meri.
During Sunday’s episode ofSister Wives, the TLC reality star, 53, opened up about the status of his longtime polygamous marriage to Meri and how hissplit from Christinehas affected his unions with the other wives.
“I feel like my relationship with Meri is very good but it’s not a married situation,” Kody said in a confessional. “It’s an amiable relationship, but I don’t think it’s a fulfilling relationship for Meri. Not in any way.”
Meri and Kody have been open about theirmarriage being more platonicthan romantic after hercatfish scandalin 2016. (At the time, the TLC star entered into an online relationship with someone she thought was a man, but who actually turned out to be a female admirer.)
Since Christine, 50, announced that she waswalking away from her marriage to Kodyafter 26 years, the patriarch said the fallout has led to changes in his relationship with Meri.
For Meri, the marriage has remained largely unchanged. “My relationship with Kody has not improved as far as like a husband and wife relationship,” she said. “That’s not something that he’s interested in. I mean, it just is what it is. It’s where we are.”
While Christine has her energy focused on her move to Utah, the exes — who are parents to sonPaedon, 24, and daughtersAspyn, 27,Mykelti, 26,Gwendlyn, 20, andTruely, 12 — grapple with how to tell their youngest the news. (Kody has a total of 18 children between the wives.)
“Some of the older kids know that I’m leaving Kody, but I need to tell Truely and that’s really what I’m most concerned about right now is her reaction,” Christine said. “I really want to have Kody and I tell Truely together because I want her to see us as still a team.”
Later in the episode, Christine revealed that Truely accidentally found out the news when she overheard her conversation with daughter Mykelti about the move.
“Kody and I were going to talk to Truly, together but I obviously didn’t have a choice anymore,” she said.
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After revealing that she and Kody were divorced and that they were moving to Utah, her daughter broke down in tears.
“I have just said the hardest thing to my little girl,” Christine said. “And I don’t know what else to say. I don’t know what’s going to make it better. I just know that I am going to remember this moment for the rest of my life as the day I broke Truely’s heart. As much as I know it’s the right thing to do, today is just really hard.”
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Sister Wivesairs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on TLC.
source: people.com
