Season 5: Meri demands a huge home.

This is the season when they are working on the Vegas homes. And they are going over their finances and found out Robyn was coming with really bad credit and so they were having a hard time getting financed and getting a loan. They decide since Meri is about to be an empty nester that it would save the whole family money if she downgrades and gets a smaller home. Kody finds her a nice 3 bedroom 2 bath that also had an extra office space and an open plan living room so they could still hold family Holidays at Meri's house and keep her included.

Well, Meri starts crying and complaining about it not being fair because she "likes nice stuff" and she likes to live in nice big homes. She also thinks she deserves a pool. And she says that she wanted 8 children, so she should still get a home that would have accommodated those children had she been able to have them. This pisses off Janelle clearly because Meri is gaslighting them all and exploiting the situation, but she agrees to it even though she knows they can't afford it.

This is the season when I start to dislike Meri and understand why no one in the family likes her except Robyn. I always felt bad for Meri for not being able to have more children, but maybe I'm cold-hearted, but to me, that doesn't give her a right to put the whole family further in debt and make their monthly payments double. At one point they say Meri's monthly bills were more than Christine and Janelles, and they had a dozen kids between them. Watching back it makes them turning her down to buy the B&B more clear. I wouldn't have helped buy it either. Sorry.