Things don't always go the way you want them to.
- I hate you. - Angela!
- Are you okay? - Leave me alone!
What did he do to you?
Why did you come back?
Because I realized I made a mistake.
You have to start trying to listen to
what your own heart is telling you.
I know that you'll figure out what's best for you,
and for your baby.
- Do you have a-- - No.
No, I'm single.
You are my husband and we are having a baby.
We have to find a way to forgive each other.
[theme song playing]
♪ 'Cause life has a way Of pulling us under ♪
♪ But we'll stick it out ♪
♪ If we got each other ♪
♪ When it all feels too much ♪
♪ I know you'll come running For me ♪
♪ Through the highs and lows We'll find our way home ♪
♪ Family ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ Family ♪
- [groans] - Come on.
[Tim sighs]
Let me get you water.
[sighs] Yeah, okay.
[sighing deeply]
[Tim vomiting]
[Tim coughing]
Let's get you to bed.
[Tim groans]
[Kari] Come on.
- [Tim gasps] - Careful.
I'm sorry.
[Tim] Hey.
How are you feeling?
Horrible.
Ashamed.
Sorry.
I would've cleaned this up. You didn't have to.
[sighs]
I miss you.
I miss us.
Fixing our marriage is the most important thing in the world to me.
It's all I want. It's...
You're all I want.
How long have you been drinking?
Or is this just another thing you were doing behind my back?
I didn't drink when we were together, and you...
I didn't need to.
I was happy.
Then how did you have an affair?
This was never about being happy or unhappy.
What happened between her and me was the result of my...
My own...
Insecurities.
- [scoffs] - Insecurities that...
Insecurities that I'm still trying to make sense of.
Tim, I cannot wait around while you are trying to make sense of yourself.
I need to know that you are here in this with me.
With us.
Through thick, through thin.
Everything.
- We're gonna work on it. - On what?
On us.
I'm gonna give it everything I have.
I'll go to AA meetings. I'll go to marriage counseling.
I'll go anywhere.
I will find my way back.
Back to you.
Back to God.
Prove it.
[cell phone ringing]
- Hello? - Hi, I'm calling for Ryan Taylor.
- Yeah, this is him. - Hey, Ryan. It's Coach Grant with the Giants.
- Got a minute to chat? - Yeah, how can I help you, Coach?
[Ashley] Goodbye, Mom.
Oh, hi. Ashley, right?
I'm Reagan, I work for Kari.
Just picking up some papers that she left.
You're Luke's girlfriend, right?
Yeah, I don't really know anything, so... [chuckles]
[chuckles] Sounds about right.
What part?
Oh, just Luke plus not knowing.
Oh.
No, it was really nice to meet you, though.
Yeah, you, too.
Hey, um...
Good luck.
Thanks.
[Kari] So, all of these chairs, we can interchange the colors.
Chairs are getting a little overwhelming, let's take you back to couches.
This is our latest model.
But the blue your eye was originally drawn to is...
It's just so classic.
I know.
It's making me want a whole second living room so I can have them both.
Just kidding.
Which do you prefer?
The blue.
But the blue feels more formal.
[male shopper] Then the white.
Though, will that make our house feel too sterile?
It always helps to describe how you wanna use your space,
and how you wanna feel inside when you're in the room.
We want a space that's great for everything
from hosting parties to cuddling on the couch.
Sounds amazing.
So, then if it was your house, with your husband, what would you pick?
Good question.
[Tim] All right, everyone, that's it for today.
Don't forget, your profiles are due next Friday.
I'll see you then.
Hey, Professor Jacobs,
do you have a second?
Sure.
Um, I was just wondering about the portfolio due next Friday.
- [Tim] Mmm-hmm. - [girl] About how many sources
- do you want us to have for that? - [cell phone chiming]
- [Tim] The number of sources don't matter. - [girl] Okay.
What's important is you get your facts straight,
- and tell the story truthfully. - [girl] Okay.
- [Tim] Okay? - [girl] Yeah.
[Tim] Okay.
Is everything okay?
Yeah.
- Do you have a question? - No.
Okay, now, what were you saying?
[girl] Yeah, about the sources. We don't have to have a specific number...
So, what time does the movie start?
- I think we have like 15. - Wow.
All right.
So, I saw, um, Ashley at your parents' house today.
I'm sorry about that.
What's that supposed to mean?
I don't know. Ashley's always been a bit of a mystery to me.
Well, I love a good mystery.
I thought you loved a good romcom.
[Reagan] What? I can't love both?
Trust me, Ashley is not a mystery that you wanna unravel.
Because of everything that happened in Paris?
Kari might have slipped and said something at work.
It goes a little bit deeper than that,
but it's not really my story to tell.
I got it.
So, best for me to get to know your other sisters a little better.
Definitely easier.
I'm sorry, just,
it makes me kind of mad because...
it's like different rules seem to apply to Ashley
than anybody else in our family.
She never has to go to church. She shows up to everything late,
and my parents just love her all the same.
Like, unconditionally loving?
Like she's more fragile than the rest of us.
Maybe she is right now.
[scoffs]
All right, where did you come from?
69th and Columbus, actually. But why? You looking for a trade-in?
Yeah, I don't know. I'm still weighing my options.
Yeah, speaking of.
Is this like a are-they-gonna do-it-
are-they-not-gonna-do-it thing?
Or is it a, you know, a thing-thing?
Do you wanna be a thing-thing?
I just, I wanna be clear. Whatever this is,
I wanna be clear. [chuckles nervously]
- How's that for clear? - Yeah, you could do that again.
[both chuckle]
[Reagan] Crystal.
- [people chattering indistinctly] - [man] Let's go, let's go.
Hustle, hustle.
[whistle blows]
Coaches.
Varsity's looking good this season.
The special team's gonna need a lot of work if we want a shot a state.
You all know we're throwing out last year's playbook.
Starting next week, I need each one of you
to come in with some fresh ideas.
Copy that, Taylor?
Yeah, Coach.
All right, good.
All right, that's it, we're done here. Thank you.
Taylor?
Sir?
[coach] What's going on with you today?
Head's been somewhere else ever since you stepped on the field.
Yeah, it's just been a weird few days.
Yeah, women will do that to you.
It's a little more complicated.
They're all complicated, son.
I got a call from the Giants.
The Giants-Giants?
Yeah, they wanna offer me a coaching job.
- [chuckling] - [Ryan] Start right after our season ends.
How about that?
Hey, that's good news, Taylor, complicated or not.
Yeah, I know. I just...
I didn't expect to be leaving again so soon.
This is the chance of a lifetime, boy.
There ain't nothing keeping you here, you hear me?
Yes, sir.
Congratulations again, son. [chuckles]
[Tim] Kari?
Kari.
I... I'm sorry.
What was the question?
[counselor] Would you like a bottle of water before we continue?
Oh, no. I'm okay. Thank you.
[counselor] Okay.
Tim, I'd like to start with you.
[sighs] Oh, boy.
How did you feel when you saw Kari with Ryan?
He is her ex.
- It felt-- - [counselor] Not "it."
You. How did you feel?
Honestly, um...
Not sure.
You were angry.
No, no, I wasn't.
I, um...
I was scared.
[counselor] Why scared?
I felt scared...
I don't know, I...
I guess I...
I guess I've always been afraid that...
I wasn't good enough for her.
That she deserves someone better.
Like, there's always been this thing. This...
insecurity.
So, you had an affair with your student to solve it?
We agreed we wouldn't bring her into this today.
You know that it's over...
She's confirmed she doesn't want any more contact and neither do I.
We're here to move on, right?
Right.
Tim, I still think it's
worth asking yourself if cheating was a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy.
You proved to yourself that, in fact, you weren't worthy of Kari.
I guess.
And then I saw Ryan.
And it just confirmed everything.
There she was, standing next to the better guy.
A guy who she would always love more than me.
That's not true.
Are you sure?
[counselor] What about you, Kari?
Do you think you have any deep-seated fears about Tim?
Fears that perhaps led you to take comfort in Ryan.
I've never felt smart enough.
I've always been afraid he was gonna find someone smarter.
I've always imagined him meeting a professor.
Kari, you've always been smart.
Well, not smart enough, I guess.
That's not fair.
I'm here. I'm doing the work.
Look, for this marriage to succeed, we're gonna have to set some ground rules
around your fears,
and everything that's happened.
- Okay. - Okay.
Forgiveness happens once.
Healing takes a lifetime.
And there won't be any healing if these wounds are reinjured.
Does that make sense?
Let me ask you a simple question.
Tim,
do you love your wife?
Yes.
[counselor] And Kari, do you love your husband?
I do.
[counselor] Then it's settled.
Divorce is off the table,
but your marriage,
for it to survive and thrive, you both have to be open to the following.
Complete forgiveness to yourself, and to each other.
And complete honesty with yourself, and each other.
The best things in life are worth fighting for.
Now, are you willing to put in the work?
One hundred percent.
[sighs]
I am.
Great.
[sighs deeply]
Lily?
[whistle blows]
It's your footwork and follow-through.
Just those two things. Keep going.
So, you and Tim?
Me and Tim.
For better or worse.
I think it can only go up from here.
I hope you're right.
I never should have kissed you.
I'm glad you did.
Tim is a good man, and he is going to be a great father.
Are you trying to convince me or yourself?
I think we need to go back to the things were.
- You know-- - Before you knew I moved back.
I love my husband.
I believe you.
That's why I came here today.
So that you could tell me that you love your husband?
So I could tell you goodbye.
I guess that means "just friends" is off the table.
I think we both know that isn't a good idea.
Yeah, if it weren't meant to be, I mean, I think it'd be easier.
What? What is that supposed to mean?
It means, this thing we have,
whatever it is, friends, more...
it's always been effortless.
That has to mean something.
Doing what's easy, and what's right
aren't the same thing.
Maybe sometimes they are.
The best things in life are worth fighting for.
I couldn't agree more.
I should go.
Goodbye, Ryan.
[line ringing]
Hey, Coach, yeah, it's Ryan Taylor.
I think I'm ready to accept that offer.
[door opens and closes]
[John sighs] I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. [chuckles]
I completely lost track of time with a patient.
I'm sorry.
It's okay.
I saw Lillian today.
Lillian Ashford?
Where?
I was down at the church, dropping off book donations.
Did you talk to her?
I wanted to.
But...
[sighs] What kind of person am I?
Human.
You didn't know what to say because...
it's hard.
Maybe she didn't see you.
Maybe she didn't want to.
Hmm.
You know, I keep thinking about what if things had been different that night.
What if Ashely had...
I know.
Or perhaps, I should reach out to her in a couple of days.
I think that'd be a great idea.
[door opens]
[door closes]
[door opens]
I was beginning to wonder if I should be worried.
I went to my first AA meeting.
How was it?
Eye-opening.
And incredibly humbling.
I learned that the first step is to admit...
that my life has become unmanageable,
and that I need help to move forward.
I know this is my journey, Kari,
but I want and I need your help.
I hope you're hungry. [chuckles]
I bought steaks.
Starving.
And after dinner, we'll make that chair look like new again.
I don't know. It's in pretty bad shape.
Oh, it just needs some love, and time.
Next time on The Baxters...
[counselor] Five months, that is quite an accomplishment.
We're taking it day by day.
I wanted it to be a girl
so she can grow up to be as strong and beautiful as her mother.
[Luke] It makes me sad that Lily has never seen those.
I think that she'd really love what we've done to honor her son's memory.
[Reagan] Why is it Ashford?
Uh, it's a dedication to my best friend.
He died in a car accident a few years ago.
I'm so sorry.
[woman] Slight change of plans.
What?
You two have fun.
- Can I help you with something? - Where is she?
- Who? - Angela Manning!
I know you had an affair with her.
You ruined her life. And mine.
[theme music playing]