Sister Wives: Tony Throws Meri to the Dogs with a Weird Comparison

First off, Meri Brown is not a favorite “other mother” for Mykelti. She and her husband watched the video of an early episode from back in the day when Meri was going through fertility issues. They talked about Robyn Brown carrying a child, using one of Meri’s eggs fertilized by Kody.

Mykelti saw Meri as ambivalent to having any more kids during the time the episode was filmed. Tony and Mykelti suggest Meri changed after she made the decision not to have any more kids when she turned down Robyn’s offer.

Mykelti and Tony Note Meri’s Anger

Instead of becoming more of a loving Sister Wives “another mother” to Mykelti and her many siblings and half-siblings, Mykelti suggested that Meri seemed to take her anger out on them. This is likely why some of the kids have said negative things about Meri from their childhood, like Paedon Brown and Maddie Brown Brush.

Paedon once said it was not safe around Meri for the kids and Maddie blew up the internet with her “living with a monster” post, which fans assumed was about Meri Brown.

So, Tony Padron took a stab at explaining things. But instead of talking about people, he compared what it was like to lose a dog to Meri’s infertitity problems. Ouch!

Sister Wives: Mykelti Squarms as Tony Talks Dogs…

Tony and Mykelti discuss Meri’s hestitation about having another child, as they watch her on that long ago Sister Wives episode. Then Tony comes out with an odd thought.

Tony said, “It’s kind of like when you have a dog and it dies”. He continues with his dog analogy by comparing Meri feeling sad if she tried invitro fertilization and it didn’t take. Tony Padron compares this to the sadness of losing a dog.

He says after you lose a dog, people might not want a new one because of all the pain they feel when the dog dies. Tony thinks some people don’t want to go through it again, so they won’t get another dog.

Apparently, he thinks this is what they are seeing Meri go through on this episode. But instead of a dog, he suggests that Meri is afraid of trying for a child and failing.

Time to Smooth It Over…

Mykelti tells Tony, that she knows he is trying to offer a really nice comparison but you just compared having a dog to getting pregnant. And Tony says, yes, that is what he is doing.

So, then he goes further. Everything good you have with a dog is worth doing it again despite you knowing it will die. And he thinks Meri should have had enough joy with her one child that she should try for another child.

He insists that she still should have tried, even if she ends up in pain because it doesn’t work. Tony says it is worth a try because of all the joy she had with her first child.

Then Mykelti tells Tony she would rather get a dog than be pregnant again. And then… they moved on. So, Meri’s reproductive problems were highlighted by Tony as Mykelti tried to redirect him away from the dog analogy. As fans suggest, Tony shows once again that he blurts it out before he thinks about the consequences, like throwing Meri Brown to the dogs.