I will never not love this family and its been a treat seeing them grow closer together. This is one of the few series I feel like will never end, but still manage constant progression in such small parameters.
@newmangareader246 I would argue he’s had a healthy amount of character development. For one telling a child that you’re having another baby is FAR from “basic”. Biological families stress over this, and depending on the family it can be a delicate matter (especially for only children). I don’t think a Dad would ever not stress over doing that for the rest time (especially a step dad where at times you can still feel that you just aren’t as close (even if it’s slight I don’t think that bit of anxiety ever completely disappears) to your kids as their biological parents). That said he understood he needed to tell her an sat down and told her WITHIN THE DAY (which I think also needs to be acknowledged a day hasn’t even passed since they returned and all of this was wrapped up in the middle of the chapter instead of being dragged out in the next (and they could have dragged this out into multiple). I definitely think had he found this out 30 chapters ago he would have withheld it from her for months (until it showed) or at least chapters of him getting advice. Character development doesn’t mean him not stressing over telling his stepdaughter this stuff (he’s a father AND a step father, it’s in his job description to stress over everything), but it does mean he feels more comfortable having these conversations with her, knows he needs to, and can take that step to do them in a reasonable time frame.
Regardless MVP goes to Reita for understanding her husband needed to tell their daughter himself to build their relationship more (he definitely can’t rely on her for everything concerning Angelica; in that case they will just always have a split between them in the family).