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

At one level, Meri by chance backed up into Kody, ensuing within the duo erupting into laughter. “Nearer than I’ve been to him in years,” Meri advised 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 top of the transferring course of, Meri and Kody had a chat that unexpectedly introduced the 55-year-old Brown household patriarch to tears.

“It was a fantastic 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, form of,” Kody mentioned via tears. “I am not bitter anymore. I am not offended. I am glad you and I acquired that discovered. I am glad that we have been capable of be buddies. 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, but it surely’s a really completely different life than what I had three years in the past, you realize? It simply appeared like all people else simply went, this is not vital.”

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

He continued, “And now with you, I am via that anger part. I am sorry concerning 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 offended.”

Meri was shocked 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 considering it did not must be this manner,” she advised 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.”

Trying to the long run, Kody mentioned he would not be “bizarre” about her remarrying sometime. Meri’s BFF Jenn then jokingly requested if Kody can be the flower woman 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 a detailed.

“It is like, you realize, that is the top of an period and now we’ve got permission to maneuver on,” Kody added via 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 accountable their cash issues on her.

“She principally implied that she was so stunned, like, someway, 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 might have paid off, constructed a home.’”

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

Christine backed up Janelle saying, “When you managed the cash, I feel issues would look loads completely 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 could be appropriate.

“It is humorous, my different wives bear in mind Janelle controlling the cash,” Kody mentioned in a confessional earlier than including, “I form 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 very best we may.”

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