This is awful but when I wrote that I had totally forgotten about the son as she never mentions him.. Jesus even just introducing a child to a partner is a huge move.. but living together... I feel so bad for him
Jack’s son and Allegra’s daughter were very close in age and both started school together in London. Then when they broke up and Jack moved back to Southend he was without a school place for a bit and had to accept a place at a school in Basildon (which is miles away - she had to take him by train and bus). Imagine having a step sister of sorts and going to school together and then never seeing them again? And then having to do a fairly arduous commute (for a little kid) to a school miles away from where you live? And then having to, presumably, move schools again once a place came up in a Southend school (I’m assuming that happened - for all I know he stayed where he was, but I think it’s unlikely)?
I know plenty of children have to cope with situations that are more unstable and chaotic than that, but it still must have been awful for him.