When Love Doesn’t Look Like You Expected

Made, Not Found · Oct 15, 2026 · 47m · transcript

How do you change your expectations when your head already knows you need to, but your heart isn’t there yet?

Mel is grieving a little. Their oldest son, 14, is at a new school, playing football, and answers every question with “fine,” and the closeness she’s always had with him suddenly feels out of reach. She knows it’s normal. It still hurts. Chris says she may be missing what’s still there, like the fact that the boys still fight over who gets to sit next to her. From there, the conversation turns back on them: “on my way home,” meaning two hours later, coming home from a work week…