Sister Wives: Meri Took a Sinister Approach with Robyn?

Sister Wives stars Meri Brown and Robyn Brown often left the fans with mixed messages about their on-again-off-again relationship on the TLC series. But, digging back to where it all started, some fans suggest this friendship was built from somewhat sinister beginnings. Meri had an agenda, which seemed to get in the way of their friendship lasting.

Sister Wives: Meri Brown Paints the Scene

Sister Wives celebrity Meri Brown tells the story about how she and Kody Brown happened upon Robyn Brown. The future fourth bride was at a friend’s house when Meri and her husband stopped by. Recently, we heard Kody talk about seeing Robyn in church and gazing into her eyes. He reports this was the first time he saw her.

So, the Sister Wives patriarch first saw her from afar. However, Meri Brown told the story in their Sister Wives bestseller about the first time they were introduced to Robyn Brown.

When Robyn entered the picture, Meri Brown was not in a good place with her shared hubby or co-wives. She was not as close to her two original co-wives as she wanted to be. She also shared how her relationship with Kody was also strained back then. So bringing Robyn into the marriage was the first wife’s idea on how to fix this.

Was Robyn Brown a Gift and Retaliation?

While Meri and Robyn, hit it off as friends, Meri wasn’t in a good place with the other members who made up her Sister Wives’ polygamous marriage. She explained this in a book that the spouses penned several years back.

In the book, Meri Brown recalled how she thought Robyn would make a good friend. But most of all, she thought she would make a good wife for Kody.

So, the couple left Janelle Brown and Christine Brown out of the loop as they got to know Robyn. Meri thought this would bring her closer together with her husband as they shared this secret. The way Meri talked about urging Kody to court Robyn, it was almost as if this was the first wife’s gift to her shared husband.

At the same time, this first wife’s secret sounded like a little retaliation towards Janelle and Christine. These two Sister Wives ladies did not form a bond with Meri as she envisioned for her polygamous marriage. So, she hoped Robyn would fit that bill.

Sister Wives: Faulty Foundation Causes Meri & Robyn Implosion?

Meri continued overseeing Kody’s pursuit of Robyn as their special little secret. But instead of growing closer with Kody, she ended up feeling even more left out. She thought that Robyn Brown monopolized all of his time.

So, Meri’s plan of finding a Sister Wives bride, who would become her close friend and make Kody happy, blew up. Instead, Meri Brown blamed Robyn Brown for the things going wrong in her marriage.

While you don’t hear much about this history on the TLC series, Meri Brown shared how she saw wife number four as a fix to her problems in the Sister Wives book.