Sister Wives celeb Kody Brown seems to fancy himself a ladies man or at least that’s the impression a man with four wives seems to suggest. But when Kody started creating his plural marriage, it seems romantic love wasn’t at the top of his list.

Sister Wives: Kody Brown & Meri Brown Polarized Stories

Meri Brown has a very different story than the other three Sister Wives when it comes to Kody Brown. She had him as her husband for three years all alone much like a traditional marriage. While Meri refers back to that time like it was magical for her, Kody seems to have a different take on it.

Fans of the Sister Wives series can remember his jaw-dropping critique about his first wife while in a counseling session in the last season. So, whether Meri’s take on her first years of marriage ring true or Kody’s cutting and demeaning words better describe their marriage, only the two of them know for sure.

But Meri didn’t come into Kody Brown’s world with other Sister Wives waiting at home for her. She started out dating Kody like other people date and she wed Kody as a traditional couple marries.

According to Meri, it was wedded bliss. But, almost 30 years later Kody Brown claims Meri manipulated him into marriage. He discards his Sister Wives marriage by saying he should have never done it.

While that remains a mystery because their stories are so polarizing. The Sister Wives who followed have their own stories on their first years with Kody.

Janelle Brown – A Loveless Marriage?

Janelle Brown came right out and shared – “I know now that Kody [Brown] and I weren’t in love then”. She describes the day they married and for several years to follow. She said it would be “many, many years into our marriage before our true love story would begin”.

Janelle describes how after their honeymoon the two felt “safer” with each other. So Janelle never had that swooning newlywed period. She was compatible with Sister Wives’ Kody Brown on an intellectual level but that’s not how a husband and wife usually roll.

It’s important to have that between them but usually love comes before marriage. Compatibility isn’t something you’d wrap a marriage proposal around. Janelle said that while they were on their honeymoon it was difficult for her to see them as a married couple.