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

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

As Sister Wives fans know, the businesswoman legally divorced Kody Brown in 2014 to allow him to marry his fourth wife, Robyn Brown, so that he could adopt Robyn’s children from her previous marriage. But Meri and Kody encountered many obstacles thereafter, including Meri being catfished by a woman pretending a man and Kody’s lack of interest in working on the relationship.

The longtime couple then announced their separation in January 2023 after more than three decades of marriage. She was later approved for an official termination of the marriage through her church.

After the divorce, Meri went public with a new beau in January. But the relationship proved to be short-lived as she announced their split the 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.”

More importantly, Meri — who left Flagstaff, Arizona, for Utah after 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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Sister Wives airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on TLC.