I dunno man.
You get reeeeeeeeeally attached to a baby if you're around it since birth, even when it didnt spring from your drug shrivelled loins.
Then again I am projecting normal person values and emotions again.
I would say on gets reeeeeeally attached to their parents and brothers and sisters who actually haven't wronged you, but she didn't seem very stuck on them and was willing to fling a grenade into that fuck the prize of fuck all too, so.
Perhaps, yeah.
Maybe a baby will hook her by the narcissism, more than a boring old established family of birth did?
We have to look at it in a different value system I suppose.
Keep in mind the baby was produced by a woman Mallory has been forced to accept by Joe.
I still ponder how Mallory went from woke urban tranny tweeting “mammas don’t let you babies grow up to be breeders” to posing with Joe’s pregnant girlfriend for a cringe mag cover. Whiplash.
Honestly, if I was LaLa, I’d be more worried about a oopsie SIDS death than Mallory getting super mama bear attached to my little bundle of joy. Only thing protecting little Rocco is that he is Joe’s son and therefore an extension of Joe. Her devotion to Rocco is based upon her codependency on Joe.
I don’t see Rocco as a bonding agent but a pawn in the relationship dynamic, but by the same token, Mallory might be motivated to get Rocco to bond with her to gain status. Nothing will secure her position in the house more than a being Rocco’s preferred caretaker.
However the fact that Rocco breast feeds and sleeps downstairs with Joe and LaLa makes it obvious he’s going to be bonded to his mother, not the tranny nanny in the attic. Who feeds and puts the baby to sleep is the mom to the baby. Rocco won’t have the capacity to bond strongly to others until he’s a bit older and weened, or at least regularly having non-breast meals.
Even involved fathers lament how difficult the first year is with a breast fed baby because the primary bond with the mother is so intense. Infant brains really are built for one strong primary attachment the first year. It’s why the first year can be so hard on moms, mom substitutes don’t work very well. Any secondary attachment Rocco might develop could very well be to Mallory instead of Joe.
It’s why I was curious about Lala breastfeeding or not. Regardless of anything Lala said about throuple parenting, breastfeeding cemented the baby’s primary attachment to her. The unknown is when Rocco is able to develop a secondary caregiver attachment is it will be to Mallory or Joe. My guess would be Mallory since I figure Joe will avoid the heavy lifting of childcare when possible. The heavy lifting is what creates the bond.
She refers to Rocco as her son. She is attached.
What else is she going to call him in her writing? The boy? It? My wife’s girlfriends’s son? Her son is the only word she could use for him in her writing just for simplicity and optics alone.
Rocco is allowing her to produce new “parent friendly” content for magazines, so for that reason alone “son” is going to be used, never mind the public scrutiny that comes from declaring yourself a Brooklyn power throuple and appearing with a pregnant LaLa on a mag cover.
Mallory needs the parenting arc to pitch some sort of fresh material. The trans-parent, non-traditional family schtick matters a lot for this, so therefore “my son” or “my child” is important to use. Throuple trans-parents are real parents!!!
