"He had told me that he did not want me to have claim on him," Meri says about the reason why Kody gave her for melting down his original wedding ring.
When you're married to 4 different girls, how exactly do wedding rings work out? Sister Wives star Kody Brown has had 3 other wedding rings over the years, and in Part 2 of the Season 18 One-on-Ones, we discover out that he had the first one melted down in an apparent bid to end up that his first spouse, Meri, "had no claim" on him.
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Earlier in Season 18, we see Meri understand that Kody is wearing an absolutely different ring than the one he had worn for years. "I'm distracted by your ring ... That's a different ring," Meri says, interrupting her announcement that she was planning to downsize. Kody and Robyn each play it off and do not move into details, but Meri is clearly perplexed.
The confusion is for just right reason. For years up to that time, Kody (and every of his four better halves) had worn a Claddagh ring, which had been established as an important symbol within the plural family. Meri, Janelle, and Christine even went in combination to buy Robyn's Claddagh ring forward of her and Kody's wedding.
However, as it turns out, the Claddagh ring used to be not Kody's first ring.
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Meri says Kody melted down his wedding ring from her to prove that she "had no claim" on him.
In Part 2 of the Season 18 One-on-Ones, we learn somewhat more about the history of Kody's rings. When he and Meri have been married in 1990, they exchanged rings and wore them as a symbol of their marriage. However, Meri says that round the time that Kody began courting Robyn, he informed her that he no longer sought after to wear his wedding ring. "He didn't think that it was fair that I had claim on him," Meri explains. It used to be around that point that Kody switched to wearing the Claddagh ring as an alternative.
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Meri says she requested him to let her keep the first ring if he didn't need to wear it any further, to which he spoke back that he had already had it melted down.
"That was a symbol! That was a sign of our marriage and our commitment, and he melted it down!" Meri says. "Who's to say that he didn't just melt down our entire relationship in that moment? Symbolically, that's what he did to me. ... It was a very, very painful situation."
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Meri then finds that the incident befell "six or seven years" earlier than the catfishing scandal which Kody has regularly pointed to as the beginning of the finish in their courting.
"Was it things like that that had happened throughout all these years leading up to me just wanting to have a friend?" Meri asks. "'Cause lord knows I didn't have any in my family."
Kody says the new ring is an emblem of a "new beginning."
As for what happened with the Claddagh ring, it seems that Kody decided to exchange it with the new ring moderately not too long ago.
Kody says he first of all purchased the new ring — which appears to be a $1,025 horse signet ring from David Yurman — just because he favored the style."I saw this really cool ring. It was way nicer, and I went, 'That's cool, I want that!'"
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For some time, he endured dressed in the Claddagh ring on his left hand and the new ring on his right hand, but eventually (possibly sometime in the midst of three of his four wives leaving him), he got rid of the Claddagh ring and moved the new ring over to his left hand. "I just went, 'Those relationships are over,'" Kody stated. "The Claddagh ring's off. I'm done."
Interestingly sufficient, eagle-eyed fans have noticed that Robyn is now wearing a signet ring that looks quite very similar to Kody's:
Obviously, it makes sense that Kody is processing numerous feelings around the institution of marriage — experiencing the dissolution of 3 of them in a little bit over one 12 months will do this to a person. Still, one may assume he would at least let Meri know that he had decided to prevent wearing a 2d ring symbolizing their dating. Then again, one might also have anticipated him to let her know their marriage used to be over and now not simply string her alongside for a decade.
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