Proposed To Every Week, Answering To No One: Sister Wives Fans Split Over Meri Brown’s Dating Life

Meri Brown’s dating life has officially entered its most surreal chapter — and she is not even on a dating app for this one. In an exclusive sneak peek at the October 25 episode of Sister Wives, published by Us Weekly, the 55-year-old revealed that ever since she started dating again, her social media DMs have been flooded with messages from polygamists asking her to join their families. Sometimes, she said, it is the husband and wife reaching out together.

The kicker? It is practically a standing appointment. “I get proposed to, I swear, on a weekly basis.” And every single week, the answer is the same: no.

Team “Stay Single and Shine” vs. Team “Find Your Person”

Team Stay Single and Shine says Meri has earned every bit of this. After more than three decades as Kody Brown’s first wife — a marriage that included a legal divorce in 2014 so he could marry Robyn, and ended for good when Meri confirmed the split in January 2023 — she gets to enjoy being courted without committing to anything. To this camp, the weekly proposals are not a problem to solve. They are proof she is the prize.

Team Find Your Person hears the same story and worries she is letting good options slip through her fingers. Eric — the funny, outgoing guy from the outdoor speed-dating event — made no move, she made no move, and she was totally fine with it. To this camp, “fine with it” is starting to look like a pattern rather than a preference, and patterns have a way of turning into regrets.

The Invites She Keeps Turning Down

Here is the detail that stopped fans mid-scroll. According to Meri, these are not random admirers — they are people still living the plural-marriage lifestyle, inviting her back into the exact world she spent 30-plus years in. After walking away from a marriage that shaped her entire adult life, and raising her only child, Leon (31), largely inside that system, she is now being asked to rejoin a version of it as somebody’s new sister wife.

Her repeated no is, to many viewers, the loudest character development of her season. She did not leave one family structure just to audition for another one.

Thirty Years Was Enough

That is the lens Team Stay Single and Shine uses, and honestly, it is hard to argue with. Meri did not just leave a marriage — she left a structure. The woman who once legally divorced her husband so he could marry another wife is now fielding weekly invitations to do a version of it all over again, and declining every single one.

Fans in this camp read it as the clearest sign yet that Meri’s era of shrinking herself for a family system is over. She spent her twenties, thirties, forties and fifties sharing a husband. Her sixties are hers.

Eric, Ron, and the Slow-Dating Playbook

None of this means Meri has quit dating — she is just doing it on geological time. The speed-dating outing with Eric ended with neither of them making a move, and she shrugged it off without a second thought. Ron, the man she met last season, remains — in her words from the season premiere — a friend, though she has not closed the door on something more. Before that came Amos, a relationship that ran from October 2023 to February 2024, according to reports.

Put it together and the pattern is patience: no labels, no rush, no settling. Which brings the fandom right back to those weekly proposals — the clearest weekly reminder that Meri Brown is in demand and in absolutely no hurry.

So which team are you on — should Meri keep enjoying the proposals and the freedom, or is it time she gave the right person a real shot? Sound off in the comments and defend your pick.