Meri Brown is done with plural marriage, but that doesn’t mean she’s given up hope that she’ll find a happy ending one day.
“I’m looking forward to my person coming into my world and having that relationship,” she tells TODAY.com.
The ‘Sister Wives’ star made headlines in January 2023 when she and her ex-husband Kody Brown revealed they were “ending their marriage for good” after more than three decades together.
After leaving Kody, Meri moved to Utah and took a breather before jumping back into the dating game.
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“It took me some time to process it and I was like, ‘Okay, this is done. Like it’s done, done, done. It’s over and it’s weird.’ And now I’m moving on and it’s been good,” she says.
Meri says she is currently dating, but “not exclusively with anyone.”
“I just think it will happen when it happens and when it needs to happen — when I find the right person and he’s ready for me and I’m ready for him,” she says.
As she looks ahead to the future, Meri hopes to find a partner who is different from her ex least one way.
“I probably don’t want to find someone named Kody. Now that I’ve put that out into the universe, it will probably happen. So maybe it’s okay, as long as he spells his name with a ‘c,'” she teases.
Meri has a good idea of the type of man she would like to see in her life.
“My ideal person is someone who is confident, takes control and encourages me to be the best person I can be. He lets me do all the things I want to do, but also encourages me and meets my energy. He has to meet my energy,” she says.
Meri and Kody married in 1990 and later welcomed three other women – Janelle, Christine and Robyn – into their plural marriage. Christine and Kody announced their breakup in 2021. The following year, Janelle and Kody said they had also broken up. Christine has now remarried.
At the end of their relationship, Meri and Kody were separated for almost a decade. During that time, Meri expressed a desire to repair her marriage, while Kody seemed content with leaving his wife in limbo.
The TLC star says it’s been “a process” figuring out what she wants in her next relationship, considering her last one.
“I’m definitely very aware of having to deal with old issues, traumas or situations because I don’t think it’s fair to get into a relationship in the future,” she says.
To that end, Meri has been working on herself to ensure she is emotionally ready for love when it comes.
“I don’t want to bring in trash from the past and I don’t want my future (husband) to bring in trash from the past. So therapy is a good thing,” she says.
In January 2024, the reality star announced that she was dating someone. A month later, she revealed that the relationship had ended.
Making her first relationship post-plural marriage public was nerve-wracking for Meri, but she says it’s all part of the course she’s navigating through this phase of her life.
“Just having the experience of dating someone exclusively for a while was exciting,” she says.
For now, Meri is enjoying just hanging out.
“There was a wide variety of people and some of them made me think, ‘Oh, I don’t know. No. Yes. No.’ But some of them make me think, “I could go on a second date with you.” It’s very interesting to see what kind of men are out there and in the process learn more about myself and what I want and need,” she says.
This article was originally published on TODAY.com
