I wonder how Mallory feels about this.
Of all the talk of Mallory in the thread, I never really found her as appealing as a cow. I was wondering why that was and I think it's because I joined this thread later. From what I can tell, it's like she removed most of her personality with a scraper and all that's left underneath is a mildly content smiler. Hell, she doesn't even seem to get upset on social media - that's Joe's job.
I think out of all the reactions, Mallory likely doesn't know how she feels about this herself. She has likely become emotionally out of touch with herself and unable to identifiy emotions beyond what she should or wants to feel, just that she is experiencing some mild discomfort and wants it to go away soon. She's a chronic people pleaser at heart.
Ever. The red flags are impossible to ignore.
Even if they're just wanting to be socially cool and acceptable it's enabling pedo behavior which is fucking nuts.
Well, at least we know if Lily is broken up with, Rocco will not be spared from incompetent parenting. He's a prop to her as well.
I wouldn't be surprised if part of the reason she did this was that this legitimized herself as a family as opposed to Mallory. I bet that Joe shittalks Mallory to Lily, his clown muse, to make Lily feel better and compete more for him (and more subtly negs her). So having a baby to cement the family ties between her, Joe, and the new dumpling without Mallory is declaring she rules the roost of Joe's heart (eww) in that regard. No one in Joe's love shack is anything but nuts and awful, and separation can't come soon enough so we can laugh at all three even more.
@Savoie I think Joe and Mallory have a steadily growing pile of credit card debt. Or fast depending on how much Joe shops emotionally. No idea on Lily since she usually keeps silent.