With Luke refusing to live with his dad, Paul is staying at honeymooning Leah's house; single-parent Ally begins to feel the strain, while a distressing event from the family's past has a surprising present-day echo.

Ally fears she might lose her job and her mind as the company collapses and her HRT medications become unavailable; Luke's panic attack ends Paul's leisurely life at Leah's; an increasingly isolated Ava faces a huge change.

A back injury leaves Paul high on Leah's supply, as he raids her collection of heavy-duty painkillers; as Luke and his dad get closer, Ally and Ava drift further apart, and Ally looks for someone to blame.

Ally and Paul learn the truth about a thing that has been terrifying them; for Ally, her job and for Paul, his MRI result; Ava and Luke both feel frozen out by the people they care most about.

An ambitious Ally sets out to save the company and throw a memorable birthday party for Ava, just as Paul, passed over for promotion yet again, wonders if he ever had any ambition to start with.

A devastated Paul is forced by his new boss to make funding cuts; after Ally's attempt to impress Ava ends in humiliation, she tells Paul some home truths; Jackie realizes a terrible truth about a dying friend.

After an apparent reconciliation with Ally, Paul's rage returns with a vengeance when he realizes that Ava has done something that could ruin her life; Luke and Jacob reunite, but things are becoming more complicated.

Paul and Ally juggle full-time careers, aging parents, a mortgage, upheavals in their relationship and the unenviable curveballs of parenting their young children, Luke and Ava.

Paul and Ally juggle full-time careers, aging parents, a mortgage, upheavals in their relationship and the unenviable curveballs of parenting their young children, Luke and Ava.

Paul and Ally juggle full-time careers, aging parents, a mortgage, upheavals in their relationship and the unenviable curveballs of parenting their young children, Luke and Ava.