What if the roles were reversed?
During this emotional discussion, both Meri and Robyn talk about seeing things from Christine's perspective, noting they often encourage their husband, Kody, to do the same.
"I'm always trying to give him the other perspective," Robyn says."I'm like, if someone else was in my life that you had to share me with, you'd be a nutcase."The episode then flashes back to a scene between Meri and Kody filmed in 2009 in which Meri brings up exactly the same topic. "The vulgarity of the idea of you with two husbands or another lover sickens me," Kody tells Meri at the time. "I think that yes, if I didn't manage it right, I could be a nutcase if the roles were reversed in plural marriage and I had a brother husband, but I think she's missing something -- the way guys bond," Kody says of Robyn."We'd be playing video games, high-fiving each other, and she'd be wishing we were getting some work done.
Meri has direct experience with Kody's jealousy after her 2015 catfishing scandal in which she thought she was talking to another man online and instead it turned out to be a woman. The incident led Kody to ultimately move out of his home with Meri and no longer be intimate in their marriage together. "I knew what I needed from Kody, and I wasn't getting it. He was very, very, very distant in our relationship," Meri recalls of the turbulent time period.