In her marriage-turned-spiritual union with Kody Brown, Sister Wives star Meri Brown was like a hothouse flower – now that she’s free, she’s more like a wildflower. The old rules don’t apply anymore, and that means that Meri can finally do her own thing. While she and Kody were emotionally distant for years, she was still his wife. It was a plural marriage, and she was supposed to embrace “sacred loneliness.” She was expected to suffer forever.