Kody and Meri: The Fractured Relationship

Out of all of his wives, Kody's relationship with his first wife is the most…dramatic. The two first got married in 1990 and share one daughter together, Mariah. As the "OG" of the sister wives pack, Meri had to deal with the awkward jealousy of seeing new wives added to her family. Although she was born into a polygamist family and knew what she was signing up for, the reality was a lot different than what she was expecting.

In 2014, after she and Kody got a divorce so that he could marry fourth wife Robyn and adopt her kids, Meri felt an emotional separation from her husband. "It's the end of something that we had had, in a way, for 24 and a half years," she said on the show.

A year later, Meri began an online relationship with a man named "Sam" who turned out to be a woman. Kody was upset when he found out about it, and even admitted on the show that he no longer wanted to be intimate with Meri. "I just feel like I've spent a lot of years not knowing where we were," Meri told Kody in an episode. "You know both of us have been avoiding any sort of anything with our relationship."

Although the two are currently trying to make it work, many fans think the relationship is kaput and that Meri is already planning her escape. "Kody said his marriage with Meri wouldn't have lasted ten years if it was monogamous, so I think he's been emotionally done with the relationship for years," a fan wrote. "His total lack of romantic or platonic interest in Meri is why he's not working to fix it."