Maybe I'm the lunatic here, but from long ago I'd already planned for the possibility of getting involved with a woman who has a kid from a previous relationship, and I'd decided that in that situation, the only viable path for a real Man would be to forge a real bond with the kid, and not just be "Mom's new husband" but to earn and OWN the title of "Dad." Maybe it's because I was that kid from a previous relationship, so I've got some insight into how a family like this should work, but even still.

Then again, with my parents here, it was mom and stepdad, not mom and 4 mutual cucks who can only lash out at that which is helpless.