Meri Brown poses with Brandon Stone.Photo:Meri Brown/Instagram
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Meri Brownisn’t spending the holidays alone!
TheSister Wivesstar, whoannounced her separationfromKody Brownin January 2023, revealed onInstagramon Saturday, Dec. 28 that she celebrated Christmas this year with a “mystery man,” whom she tagged in the post.
Meri, 53, shared a photo of herself posing with a man named Brandon Stone. In the snap, the pair smiled as they stood with their arms around each other inside of a home.
“It’s a Christmas miracle!” Meri captioned the photo, adding the hashtags “mystery man” and “life is good.”
Meri’s post comes just days after she told PEOPLE thatshe’s “dating non-exclusively”after splitting from her most recent ex, a man named Amos, whom she begandating in October 2023. The pair laterannounced their splitin February.
“He just wasn’t my person,” Meri told PEOPLE of Amos. “We dated exclusively for a few months, and he just wasn’t my person.”
Meri Brown poses with Brandon Stone.Meri Brown/Instagram
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“You date non-exclusively, and then you’re like, ‘Okay, I can focus on this person. Let’s be exclusive,’ " she continued. “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.”
The businesswoman, wholeft Flagstaff, Arizona, for Utahafter ending her relationship with Kody, noted that “when you live in a small town, and then this day and age, it seems to be the thing is the dating sites." However, she said she has “met a couple of people through people.”
Dating hasn’t been her only focus, as she noted that she has also been using this time to focus on herself. “I’m learning about myself. I’m learning about other people,” Meri told PEOPLE.
“I am learning to trust myself and be like, ‘Hmm, I’m getting a funny vibe. This person’s just not for me,’ " she continued. “Even if it’s just not a funny vibe, nothing’s wrong with a person. It’s just not for me.”
Viewers followed Meri’s relationship with Kody, 55, on TLC’sSister Wives, includingKody’s lack of interest in working on the relationship.
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source: people.com