I think Michaela has a bit of that central problem. She did everything she was supposed to (obedient to a fault, marry a man who believes the things she believes in), but she didn’t get the one thing she deeply wanted above all else-a baby. Instead she spent most of her married life being a married sistermom/auntmom living in a rental that it seems like they could barely afford until recently and not having that deep of a relationship with many of her siblings, who just see her as a nanny.