I agree, I think Verity is probably trying to balance not pissing Niomi off by not taking this relationship seriously, with also, you know, not wanting yet another strange man around her young daughter at Christmas. I have a sister who is much younger than me (talking 10+ year age gap) and my Mum had sensible (IMO) rules about when our boyfriends would be allowed to meet her, be involved in family occasions because it's not fair for little kids to get attached to adults who aren't staying around. I appreciate that might be an unpopular thing and when I was younger I thought it was unfair but as an adult I am completely on board with protecting children from transient relationships. Niomi is probably too selfish to appreciate the impact of losing Joe on Daisy Mae - they did seem close - and if Verity doesn't want that happening every year then good on her in my opinion.
Last year, Niomi had Forky over right after Christmas, now this year she's LIVING with another man. It's way too much and to be honest it's extremely fucked up. I expect last year, the first time, Niomi sold her family this tale of Forky being the one, she'd known him a long time and they were friends first so the speed of the relationship just made sense, and I can imagine one time, her family might go for that spiel. But not twice, and she can't even do that with this guy she barely knows. Why should her family have to put up with another weird man around at Christmas, or on their family holidays, when at this point nobody knows how long Niomi's creepy rebound relationships are going to last. She has no regard for the effect of this on the rest of her family and it's unbelievably selfish. I also find it gross that she is obviously trying to give legitimacy to these relationships by trying to speedily embed these men into her family and family occasions - it's not organic, she really pushes for it.
"Currently engaged"
and on the wrong side of the plate! 
