Whether it’s exes like Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick still teaming up for family vacations, or Kim Kardashian rocking up at Kanye West’s Donda performance wearing a wedding dress months after filing for divorce, for better or worse the Kardashians have been known to stand alongside their exes and baby daddies through thick and thin.

But, regardless of the wider backlash, Khloé and Tristan’s second reconciliation was looking promising, with their newly reformed relationship being closely documented on the last season of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, and more recently on the family’s new show, The Kardashians.

Which brings us to today, and despite the fallout of his paternity scandal, Khloé recently gushed over her ex and praised his role as a father.

“I think at the end of the day all of us just aspire to have blissfulness,” she told Robin Roberts during an ABC News special last month, going on to say that she still thinks Tristan is “a great guy” and “a great dad.”

And ever since Kourtney moved on with now-husband Travis Barker in late 2020, she and Scott have struggled to both maintain their friendship and define the boundaries of their coparenting dynamic. In fact, recent episodes of The Kardashians have centered on Scott feeling isolated from the family in the wake of their relationship intensifying.

Despite the complicated demise of their marriage in late 2020 and his public harassment of her earlier this year, Kim still speaks highly of the rapper and is known to constantly support his various career ventures.

During a scene filmed in November 2021 — less than two months before Tristan’s paternity scandal broke — a newly rekindled Khloé and Tristan are working out together in Kim’s home gym, before they get a surprise interruption from none other than Kim and Kanye.

However, Kim explains in her confessional that Kanye was there to pick their kids up for school and that, despite their differences, she will “always take the high road” for the benefit of their children.

After Kanye and Kim leave the gym, the surprise Kanye appearance prompts Khloé to reflect on their unusual family dynamic, comparing it to “the mob.”

“Let me just really ask you something, Tristan, and be as honest as you want, okay?” she begins. “Either an individual would say: ‘What an amazing family, that you guys just keep everyone around at all times.’ Or, are you like: ‘How does this family still keep all these guys around?’”

The scene then cuts to Khloé’s confessional where she begins to explain why she and her sisters keep their exes so close to hand — a seeming response to the backlash she faced for getting back together with Tristan after his cheating scandal.

“We have a very loyal, strong vibe in our family,” Khloé says. “We are great coparenters, we are great at blending families. We’ve learned that from my mom and my dad.”

Reflecting on her parents’ post-split relationship, Khloé reveals that they remained close, and adds that Robert and Caitlyn even struck up a bond too.

“That’s just how we are. That’s how we were raised,” she says. “Like my mom and my dad were best friends, my dad and my step-dad played golf together twice a week.”

“Yeah, that doesn’t really happen anywhere else besides your guys’ family,” he says. “The dad and the step-dad are usually — somebody’s getting hit with a golf club.”

But, Khloé knows exactly how it is in her family and swiftly responds, telling Tristan that he’s stuck in the family “forever.”

“Scott is never leaving. Kanye is never leaving. Looks like you’re never leaving. We’re all here, forever!” she says, calling their unconventional approach “a beautiful thing.”

Tristan then quips: “No, no. More like you’re never leaving me,” which, as far as quotes go, certainly hasn’t aged well given what the following months would entail.