Love After All: Life After the Nuclear Family Program (Shame, Scripts, and Autonomy)

What if love didn’t fail? What if you were just following the wrong script?

You were told to find “the one,” build a forever, and keep the dream alive. But here’s the truth: less than 18% of U.S. families fit the old definition of a couple with children. Most of us are already living in a post-nuclear reality... Yet emotionally, we’re still clinging to a fantasy from the 1950s.

In this raw, revealing episode, Dr. Lia Roth breaks down the emotional cost of chasing the outdated ideal of the nuclear family. And how the Martyr holds it all together driven by devotion. We expose the silent betrayals we’ve normalized in the name of “forever.”

Whether you’re divorced, co-parenting, queer, ghosted, poly, widowed, or somewhere in between: you’re not broken. You’re waking up from a script that never fit your life, your body, or your truth.