Sister Wives' Kody Brown Wants Robyn to 'Move on' from the Plural Family 'Dream' He Sold Her: 'Never Meant to Be'

Mar. 15, 2025

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“This isn’t what I envisioned my life to be,” she then said in a confessional. “I always wanted to live a plural marriage. I’m in this place where everything that’s going on is just, it’s taking away all those choices for me.”

“I’m struggling with my identity and what does it mean and I don’t see my future anymore and the hopes and dreams that I had were just disappearing before my eyes,” she added.

“I’ve always said, this woman has a spine of concrete and steel and she’s been holding on to the dream that I sold her on with my family for a lot longer,” he continued. “But I keep trying to go, ‘Let’s move on. Let’s let this go. Let’s just tell ourselves and believe it,’ because I believe it now.”

The father of 18 added, “It was never meant to be. It was never meant to work.”

Kody’s marriages to Meri, 53, Janelle, 55, and Christine, 52, fell apart within a span of 14 months. Meri was the last to go as the now-exes jointly confirmed their separation in a January 2023 Instagram statement.

“They did say that it was on the grounds of abandonment,” she explained. “And I know he doesn’t like that word because he doesn’t feel like he abandoned me. I feel like he did.”

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source: people.com