Better with You - 1 ª Season

Mia invites Maddie and Ben to meet Casey, and they think they're meeting just another in a long line of boyfriends. But Maddie realizes how serious things actually are when Mia and Casey excitedly announce that they're engaged. Surprised by the news, Maddie feels like her little sister has leapfrogged over her -- jumping ahead of her in some major, life-changing way -- and sees the light it shines on her own life choices. But reluctant to be a negative voice, she resolves to be supportive and let her parents, the critical Vicky and Joel, be the ones to object when the time comes. But when Mia tells them that she and Casey are getting married, Vicky and Joel greet the news with celebration, much to Mia's delight and Maddie's surprise.

Mia and Casey go house hunting when they realize that Mia's apartment will be too small for them when the baby comes. But Casey's unusual taste in home selections concerns Mia, especially when he sets his sights on a dilapidated old firehouse. Maddie tells her to just go along with his choice because, before a man turns 27, he never knows what he wants anyway. Meanwhile, now that Joel has recently retired, the already-retired Vicky finds her husband getting on her nerves because he doesn't know how to spend his new, free time.

Everyone dreads the gimmicky Putney family Christmas photo card that Joel obsesses over every year. But Ben, who has been left out of the card despite being with Maddie for nine years, is secretly hurt when Joel invites newcomer Casey to be included, so he and Maddie devise their own rival Christmas card. Meanwhile, when Mia and Casey realize they're no good at saying "no," they ask Maddie and Ben to be the ones to say it to their future child.

When Casey and Mia have their first fight as an engaged couple, Casey implements his plan that stops all arguments cold. In an effort to help, Maddie decides to show them how arguing can actually be healthy for a relationship, but ends up exposing a fault in her own nine-year relationship with Ben. Meanwhile, the longtime married Vicky and Joel quietly resolve their arguments by simply hiding each other's things.

Maddie thinks the best way to get someone to do something is to make them think it was their idea. She makes a deal with Ben to see if he can make Vicky think that it's really her idea to stop sending frivolous emails to his workplace. Meanwhile, after the ultrasound, Mia has trouble convincing father-to-be Casey that their romantic activities will not harm their baby, so Maddie suggests Mia find some way to make Casey see her as the sexy woman he fell in love with.