On Sunday’s all-new Sister Wives, Meri opened up about her determination to finish her three-decades-long marriage to Kody whereas assembly with pals Jenn and Brandi.

Meri, who legally divorced Kody in 2014, famous that “inside the week, he goes, ‘Why did you do it so quick?’ … He is like, ‘I do not perceive why you probably did it so quick. You’ve gotten a man on the aspect ready?’”

The fact TV persona mentioned she discovered Kody’s feedback “insulting” as a result of he had “no curiosity” in sustaining their marriage, including that divorce was the “solely different choice.”

Meri then revealed she had texted him after she obtained the official termination of their marriage by way of their church.

“I texted him and he referred to as me inside 20 minutes,” she mentioned. “It was a superb textual content. … Do you need to hear it?” Meri continued, earlier than going to retrieve her telephone.

“I mentioned this. I am gonna learn it again. ‘Hello Kody, simply needed to observe up from the textual content I despatched a pair weeks in the past. Simply needed to let you understand that I had a dialog with the management in Utah at this time and the official launch was granted. I am brokenhearted that our life got here to this. I’ll at all times love and respect you. Thanks for a few years of pleasure. I hope you really could have peace now and I launch you from any accountability or fear about me. I obtained this.’”

Whereas detailing their divorce in a earlier Season 19 episode, Meri shared that she opted to terminate her marriage by way of the household’s church, explaining that she was “granted what is known as in our church, a launch, which is mainly the equal of a divorce.”

“It was a really, very laborious dialog, laborious in which means heartbreaking as a result of this isn’t what I needed to do. This isn’t what I supposed once I married Kody,” she continued. “Again in 2014, Kody and I did do a authorized divorce, and for me, that complete course of was purely for the truth that he may then marry Robyn [Brown] legally after which undertake her three older children. However our non secular marriage, our non secular ceiling was nonetheless intact.”

Whereas the couple legally break up in 2014, they did not formally separate and produce their marriage to a detailed till January 2023 — months after Kody’s marriages with Christine Brown and Janelle Brown additionally dissolved.

And although they’ve each seemingly come to phrases with the top of their union, viewers noticed Kody having a very tough time saying goodbye to Meri throughout an episode of the TLC sequence in late November, breaking down in tears whereas sending his “favourite” ex-wife off to Utah, the place she determined to re-settle.

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

Kody then admitted he is “been going by way of an anger section of divorce,” and although he is 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 way of that anger section. 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 a substitute of being indignant.”

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

“He is saying it is the top of an period and I am pondering it did not should be this fashion,” she instructed 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 long run, Kody mentioned he would not be “bizarre” about her remarrying sometime, and even mentioned he’d like to stroll his ex down the aisle.

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