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International parental migration is perceived in diverse and contradictory ways by different family members, whose experiences of what is ‘normal’and ‘troubling’are shaped by both local cultural traditions and global social and economic forces. This chapter, based on fieldwork conducted in four cities in Colombia, raises issues about pain as a ‘normal’experience of families living in circumstances of separation related to migration; both parents and children assume that pain is the normal price they have to pay for succeeding, searching for a better life and economic progress. Yet, there are differences in their narratives: while parents focus on their role as providers, children focus on the experience of separation. It points to the impact of wider attitudes, for example, as manifested through the media, and an ideological clash between the desirability of a nuclear family household and how a particular version of (affluent …