Kody & Christine Cross Paths for First Time Since Nasty Split on Sister Wives and It's Awkward

Sister Wives returned for its 12th season on Sunday night, giving fans a not-so-pleasant update on where Kody Brown stands with wife Robyn, exes Meri, Christine and Janelle, and all of his children. And, considering it seems the episode was filmed extremely close to the end of last season -- which saw Kody, Meri and Janelle all go their separate ways -- there wasn't much time for the situation to improve. Setting the scene, Kody explained that, at the time of filming, "Christine and I just don't talk. Janelle and I have been separated. Meri, do we say we're divorced? I don't think so. But we're not in a marriage and I don't want to be in a marriage." All that left him asking, "Who am I without my family?" Here's where he stands with his family now. During the hour, Christine held a baby "sprinkle" for daughter Mykelti, who was pregnant with twins. While Janelle was invited, she didn't make it; Meri, meanwhile, was not invited. "I will do anything for Mykelti and Mykelti wants Kody and Robyn at her sprinkle," Christine said, adding she was "nervous" about seeing them. "It's the first time I'll be seeing them after I left ... Kody was furious the last time he spoke to me and we haven't talked since." Kody admits he and Robyn are "terribly nervous" to see Christine. "There's so much animosity," he added -- admitting his feelings are "childish" -- before saying, "I'm just nervous because our divorce hasn't been really amicable. It's been sad, and we just hope that the environment is warm and friendly." When Kody and Robyn got to the party, they were greeted warmly by Christine's daughters Mykelti and Aspyn, as Christine was heard in a confessional saying she wants all her kids to "have a great relationship" with both their father and Robyn. Christine, however, kept her distance from both of them -- saying that giving them a warm greeting "would be disingenuous and that would mean I was going to be friends and friendly and I'm not. I'm not gonna be friendly." "I can't speak for Kody and Christine, but I kept my distance and did not greet Christine because she told me she didn't want a relationship and I don't want to push myself on her," added Robyn. "I want to have any relationship that I can have, but it takes 2." The three weren't seen talking to each other at all, and spent most of the party at separate tables. "I don't want to talk to her, I don't want to see her. The divorce has put me in, I'll be honest, a pretty dark place," Kody said of Christine. "I've spent a lot of time hearing Christine and Janelle berate me in ways that have challenged my resolve for sort of love of myself." "For years they were singing my praises, and now they're sort of loathing me," he continued. "If they're trashing me to the public, I can't imagine what they're saying to my children, so it makes me very uncomfortable." Christine denied that accusation, however, saying she hasn't "pitted" the kids against him and will do "everything that I can to have them have a good relationship with him." Janelle made it very clear she and Kody were "not back together" -- something she was more than okay with. "I'm actually finding a lot of peace over this new life," she said, admitting she was mourning "the loss of this ideal we were striving for" as a big happy polygamist family. "The big spark for me was when his relationship broke down with my children and he didn't seem like he would move heaven and earth to fix it," she added of why things really fell apart. "And I thought, 'OK, that was what was really holding me here.'" Despite things being rough between her, Kody, Robyn and Meri, Janelle has maintained her friendship with Christine. Meri explained it had only been "about a week" since she and Kody filmed their big "official breakup conversation" -- something she said she saw coming "for a long time." "For the past nearly decade, he has pulled himself away from me," she said, saying that while they still have "that spiritual marriage intact," that's something she's "moving forward with having terminated." "But that's going to take some time," she added. "Like, why in the world would I want to be tied to somebody eternally who doesn't want me?" She then spent the rest of the episode venting to a friend about how the marriage fell apart, repeating most of her talking points about last season -- accusing Kody of stringing her along and pushing back at his insinuations that he never truly loved her. While they're still together, things aren't too peachy for Kody and Robyn either. During the episode, Kody admitted he and Robyn are "kind of in a struggling place," while she said they're "probably doing the worst we've ever done in our marriage." "He doesn't know who to blame, himself or one of the other wives. Kody's feeling a lot of rejection," she l