My executor doesn't know the will exists. Now what?

You did the hard part. You wrote the will. You picked someone you trust to carry it out. But if that person cannot find the will, does not know what it says, and has never been told what an executor actually does, you have built a plan that lives only in your head. That serves you, not your family. Reason asks a plain question: who does this plan actually serve? Not the family you imagine — the real people who will stand in a room, grieving, holding papers they don't understand. A will hidden in a drawer serves no one equally. It only serves a story where nothing goes wrong. This work goes better with others — a partner, an adult child, a friend, or your planning pod. Sit down together. Walk through it out loud. An executor who has never seen the document is left to guess. Fix that now, while you can still explain.