Kody’s ‘Resistant’ to Meri’s Divorce Request Via Church

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

In the course of 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 informed me that she was going to go to Utah, meet with our church leaders and principally request a divorce,” Kody, 55, informed 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 way of their church” (a.ok.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 transferring ahead with any marriage.”

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

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

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

“Nevertheless we’re made accountable to God, I do not wish to be accountable to this church and all their BS,” Kody added. “So I’ll let Meri go and do her factor as a result of if I am offended at her, it turns into a combat. I wanted her simply to go away as a result of it simply took without end for her to lastly understand it has been executed and over for years.”

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

“I am transferring 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 yr 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.