Love the Broken: When the World Stops Seeing You

Jenny Callahan knows what it costs to be believed.

Living with POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome) means her body can change the rules without warning—dizziness, racing heartbeats, fatigue that turns “simple” tasks into strategy. Some days she uses a walker with a fold-down seat. Some days she’s in a wheelchair. Every day, she’s a mother to her teen son, Noah—building routines, checklists, and backup plans to keep their life steady in a world that confuses disability with instability.

When Jenny’s soon-to-be ex-husband turns custody into a power game—blocked exchanges, last-minute changes, baiting messages—she learns a brutal truth: family court doesn’t reward emotion. It rewards documentation. So Jenny starts a binder and turns chaos into evidence, determined to protect Noah’s stability without becoming the “reactive” story her ex wants to sell.

As a Guardian ad Litem steps in and the pressure tightens, Jenny’s fight spills beyond the courtroom: a viral video, a school empathy challenge, and an unexpected invitation to help shape accessible low-income housing—proof that her life isn’t small, just built differently.

Quietly fierce and deeply human, this is a novel about family court, disability, and the cost of stability—about what happens when a woman refuses to shrink into the shadow and teaches her son, without preaching, how to become the kind of man who holds the door open.