Is he still not bothering with his three kids?
Catching up on the threads, and at the point where people are asking why he isn’t spending time with his kids he had with Helen, why he isn’t taking them away etc. I bet the answer is because he thinks he cannot handle managing/parenting four kids without Helen’s help. And his gf would be a fat lot of use given she barely knows them and only has experience parenting her one child. A good father would step up to the challenge and do it, start small with a night at home with them all and take it from there. But seems it’s easier for Richie to just opt out completely, unless there’s been evidence of his parenting and shared custody in the past 20 pages.
I hate to say it but I get major vibes the gf doesn’t want his three other kids around, spoiling their cosy little new family. Any decent person who steps into a stepparent role would want to spend time with the kids, get to know them, and play a part in having them more often so they can still see their dad. This has stereotypical man runs off with new fancy piece, knocks her up and has ready made new family, old family no longer matters. I can’t stomach the thought of having two babies a year apart and investing just so much into one while barely seeing the other, not to mention his older two who have grown up with him there and now barely see him.
These dickheads I swear. Families aren’t disposable. I wouldn’t have judged as harshly had they got together, held off on a child, worked to coparent and settle as a new blended family for a couple of years. To put his kids through a split, new ‘stepmum’, witnessing the trauma of their mother (regardless of how strong she’s been, her pain won’t have been unnoticed by her kids), and a brand new baby sibling in a year flat is despicable. Not at any point have Richie or Stephanie spent a millisecond thinking of his three children.
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Anyway I digress.
