On Sunday’s all-new Sister Wives Kody helped Meri transfer out of her Flagstaff, Arizona house amid her deliberate return to Utah, and their goodbye was crammed with feelings — particularly for Kody.

At one level, Meri by accident backed up into Kody, ensuing within the duo erupting into laughter. “Nearer than I’ve been to him in years,” Meri informed the cameras.

Kody even referred to Meri as his “favourite ex-wife.” Although Kody was with Meri the longest of his 4 wives, which included Christine and Janelle, now he is solely married to his fourth spouse, Robyn.

Towards the tip of the shifting course of, Meri and Kody had a chat that unexpectedly introduced the 55-year-old Brown household patriarch to tears.

“It was an important run, however I am not going to let it get me down,” he shared, calling it the “finish of an period.”

Meri, in the meantime, was “blown away” by Kody’s emotional response, telling her ex. “I simply do not perceive.”

“We had one thing particular and it feels prefer it simply all went to s–t, kind of,” Kody mentioned by tears. “I am not bitter anymore. I am not indignant. I am glad you and I bought that found out. I am glad that we have been capable of be pals. I am glad that you just’re my favourite ex-wife. However it’s the weirdest factor to be in that place. It’s simply heartbreaking in a means. And I like the life I’ve, nevertheless it’s a really totally different life than what I had three years in the past, you understand? It simply appeared like all people else simply went, this is not necessary.”

Kody then admitted he is “been going by an anger part of divorce,” and although he is now not indignant, he mentioned he is discovered himself “unhappy” as he mourns the “loss” of their marriage.

He continued, “And now with you, I am by that anger part. I am sorry in regards to the seven years, however I am glad we did it as a result of now I can mourn a loss as an alternative of being indignant.”

Meri was stunned by Kody’s apology and surprising emotional response to her transfer after he disregarded their relationship for years.

“He is saying it is the tip of an period and I am considering it did not must be this fashion,” she informed the cameras. “I don’t perceive. I do not get it. I do not know the place that is coming from. I don’t perceive it. He has made it clear that he didn’t need me in his life. So why this emotion? … I’m floored. I do not know what to do with this.”

Seeking to the longer term, Kody mentioned he would not be “bizarre” about her remarrying sometime. Meri’s BFF Jenn then jokingly requested if Kody can be the flower lady at her subsequent marriage ceremony, and the daddy of 18 responded, seemingly severe, “No, I get to stroll her down the aisle.”

Meri and Kody laughed at his comment earlier than hugging as soon as extra because the episode got here to an in depth.

“It is like, you understand, that is the tip of an period and now we’ve permission to maneuver on,” Kody added by tears.

Whereas there was some levity and closure for Kody and Meri, tensions solely continued to rise between Kody and Janelle, who claimed that her ex is making an attempt in charge their cash issues on her.

“She mainly implied that she was so shocked, like, one way or the other, she thought I would been controlling the cash,” Janelle mentioned of Meri’s response to the Brown household’s monetary woes. “I am like, ‘Dude, man, if I managed the cash we’d have paid off, constructed a home.’”

She continued, “I do not know what Kody’s been saying about, like, one way or the other, I am controlling the cash.”

Christine backed up Janelle saying, “Should you managed the cash, I feel issues would look lots totally different.”

Janelle agreed, noting that after they have been all married to Kody all she did was “report what was spent and ship it to the accountant.”

Kody, for his half, did not defend Janelle nonetheless, and as an alternative implied that Meri’s assumptions about her is likely to be appropriate.

“It is humorous, my different wives keep in mind Janelle controlling the cash,” Kody mentioned in a confessional earlier than including, “I kind of guided the place the cash went.”

He alleged, “All of us had entry to the account. Pay attention, we have been a household working collectively and we did the most effective we might.”

Sister Wives airs Sundays at 10:00 p.m. ET on TLC.