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>"just double down on bottling up everything until your pain becomes so impossible to conceal that someone finally notices and rushes to your aid, despairing that they neglected the severity of your suffering".
To be fair, while I do not condone such behavior I can understand it. Revealing how much you are in pain or suffering an cascade and lead others to be harmed or feeling like they failed you in some way or if said other person is already having issues it might feel wrong to put more on them. Paulo has had a couple of issues and part he does have and clakc a male role model so he acted like a fuckboi for a while. His dad from what we have seen is a good guy but he is a single father trying to care for someone while working to keep everything they have.

Abbey & Molly on their won could be a decent spin off comic especially due to the pain their biological father has inflicted on them and the trauma his shadow cause to ABbey to the point he was worried he would be just like him.

Mike is the golden boy of the family and his parents are in a very rough relationship and from what we have seen, that is his only or most experience with relationships. Lucy's dad is away, and they don't really hang out with Daisy's family much at all. While not a great explanation, it explains why he took Sandy back or why he has been the supportive stay-at-home housewife in this "relationship" and kinda with Lucy when he was her teddy bear.

>I don't think he's heading for a suicide attempt.
To be fair, II was thinking less of Mike willing trying to kill himself and more like he tried to cross some water while not well, like he was attempting to do some soul searching or having dark thoughts of suicide or isolation, and it happened by accident. Naturally, Mike would not be trying to kill himself here, but the "attempt" would give him some perspective. Plus, no one is around to make it about Lucy.