Meredith Marks has opened up about why she decided to get a postnuptial agreement 15 years into her marriage.
Meredith and Seth recorded their Hanging by a Thread podcast on Tuesday’s episode of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, Meredith recalled Seth being “very disconnected from me” a decade and a half after their wedding.
“I was moving with three children from Chicago to Park City, Utah, where if you were to go get a divorce it is not favorable for women in Utah. I was worried that I would love my children and be stuck somewhere that I didn’t know and that he would leave me,” admitted the boutique owner, 51.
She added that there was “nothing financial in it, it was strictly about custody of our children.”
Seth appeared to be shocked by Meredith and asked, “You thought I was going to leave you?”
In a confessional interview, Meredith reflected on the couple’s marital struggles, saying, “I don’t think Seth remembers how bad things really were. Like, back then I was terrified he was leaving. Like, we were not happy together. It was not good.”
Seth admitted that he was focused on providing financially but was not fully available to his family during that period.
“I wasn’t there from an emotional support standpoint, and I regret that and I apologize for that,” he told his wife.
“Thank you, honey,” she responded before he added, “I take responsibility for it.”
Meredith opened up in September about the state of her marriage and the pair’s relationship-focused podcast.
“It’s a podcast about relationships — because we’re perpetually hanging by a thread, even though I will say our relationship is better than it’s ever been,” she explained. “I think all relationships are somewhat perpetually hanging by a thread. But it’s interesting working together.”
“We spend a huge amount of time together already just because we do travel so much, and a lot of times, he’s working all day from the same space I’m in,” she continued.
Working so closely together may give the two “another element” to bicker about, but Meredith insisted that their arguments are minor.
“We haven’t had that many fights about it, but sometimes it’s like, ‘Well, you said you’d handle this,’” she explained. “It’s irritation. Nothing major.”
Meredith and Seth have navigated plenty of ups and downs in their relationship since they wed in 1996. The pair — who share children Reid, Chloe and Brooks — briefly separated during RHOSLC’s first season, which the reality TV star explained at the time had to do with their growing apart over time.
“Over the years, it just broke down,” she said on a 2020 episode. “We moved many times. We kind of were uprooted — I was trying to start my company, he was running his business, we had the three kids. There was just no communication and hostility built and built and built, and we just got so totally overwhelmed that we just were completely disconnected.”
The pair sought out a couple’s counselor, who helped them realize their marriage was worth salvaging. Coming out of therapy, Meredith said she and Seth felt “very strong, very united” and reinforced positive feelings about their future together.
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo.
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