Sister Wives' Meri Brown Confirms She's Dating After Splitting from Most Recent Ex: 'Just Wasn't My Person' (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Meri Brown.Photo: Meri Brown/Instagram

Meri Brownis keeping an optimistic outlook on love, despite the many obstacles she has faced.

The longtime couple thenannounced their separationin January 2023 after more than three decades of marriage. She was later approved foran official termination of the marriagethrough her church.

(L-R) Kody Brown and Meri Brown are pictured.Meri Brown/Instagram

Meri Brown/Instagram

After the divorce, Meriwent public with a new beauin January. But the relationship proved to be short-lived as sheannounced their splitthe following month.

“He just wasn’t my person,” Meri, 53, tells PEOPLE exclusively of her recent love interest. “We dated exclusively for a few months, and he just wasn’t my person.”

Coming to terms with that relationship is part of the “dating process,” she says.

“Right now, I’m dating, not exclusively. But you date non-exclusively, and then you’re like, ‘Okay, I can focus on this person. Let’s be exclusive,'” she explains. “And then, see if it works into something. That one just didn’t. And so, we broke that off and now I’m dating non-exclusively.”

Though she is using dating sites to find possible suitors, the reality star also reveals she has “met a couple of people through people,” which is her preference versus finding love virtually. “But when you live in a small town, and then this day and age, it seems to be the thing is the dating sites.”

Meri Brown.Meri Brown/Instagram

More importantly, Meri — wholeft Flagstaff, Arizona, for Utahafter leaving Kody — is using this time as a single woman to focus on herself. “I’m learning about myself. I’m learning about other people,” she says.

“I am learning to trust myself and be like, ‘Hmm, I’m getting a funny vibe. This person’s just not for me,'” she continues. “Even if it’s just not a funny vibe, nothing’s wrong with a person. It’s just not for me.”

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source: people.com