Meri Brown has heard it all before — the promises, the pressure, the proposals. But nothing in 32 years of marriage to Kody Brown prepared her for this: strangers are now asking for her hand in marriage, week after week, in her social media DMs.
During the October 25 episode of Sister Wives, the 55-year-old revealed that the messages have become so routine she can practically set her watch by them. And the strangest part is not that men are proposing. It is who is doing the proposing.
“I Get Proposed To, I Swear, on a Weekly Basis”
“I get proposed to, I swear, on a weekly basis,” Meri said on the episode, according to PEOPLE. “It’s the weirdest thing.” Her DMs, she explained, are filled with people asking her to consider another plural marriage — full marriage pitches from strangers who have watched her life on television for 16 years and decided they already know her.
For Kody Brown’s first wife — legally married in 1990, legally divorced in 2014 so he could marry Robyn Brown, and spiritually split in December 2022 — the irony is hard to miss. Meri left a marriage in which she often felt unseen. Now she cannot open her inbox without someone trying to claim her.
The Offers That Stopped Fans Cold
Some of the proposals, Meri said, come from entire families.
“I’ve had families reach out to me — like a wife, saying that she and her husband are looking and would be interested,” she said. “I’ve had a man who said he and his wife really like me.”
YOU MAY LIKEMykelti’s Truth Bomb: Are You Watching Sister Wives for the Moms — or to Yell at Kody?In other words, some people sliding into Meri’s DMs are not only asking her to marry them. They are asking her to join their plural family — to step right back into the very structure she spent years walking away from.
That detail is what has fans talking hardest. One camp calls it flattering proof that Meri is finally seen as a catch. Another calls it unsettling: after everything she survived, why would anyone assume her dream is to become somebody else’s sister wife all over again?
The One Man She Is Not Rushing: Ron
Here is the contrast that makes the whole story land. While strangers propose weekly, the one man Meri actually knows — Ron, whom she met at a Season 20 speed-dating event — is still firmly in the friend zone, by mutual choice.
But on the October 11 episode, Meri told friends that she and Ron are “comfortable in the friend zone” while they each figure out what they want after long marriages. “I don’t want to jump into something, like, really fast and then get my heart broken if it does not work,” she said. She wants someone kind, open to conversation, and willing to celebrate her — “every single birthday,” in her words.
Why This Hits Differently After 32 Years With Kody
That history is why fans are not treating this as a lighthearted dating story. Meri was the first wife, the one who built the family from the beginning and then watched it unravel until she was the last of the three original wives to leave. So when strangers offer her a new plural marriage in a DM, it does not read as romance to a lot of viewers. It reads as a failure to understand what she actually left — and what she wants now: to be chosen and celebrated as one person, not as an addition to someone else’s family.
And that is the question dividing the fandom tonight. Are these weekly proposals a compliment Meri should enjoy, a creepy intrusion she should shut down, or proof that the only man worth her time is the one she is deliberately not rushing — Ron? Drop your take: Team Flattered, Team Creeped Out, or Team Give Ron a Real Chance?
