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They keeping up facades. They're trying to look like upstanding, upper class people to the outside.our judgment is strongly influenced by Sage's words, but they do not find much confirmation in the facts.
Burke "apparently" is very friendly with everyone, and we have no reason to think that he is not friendly with her as well.In the end, Sage brings a stranger into her home and from the first moment has a very aggressive attitude toward the person who is supposed to be helping them.An unloving parent might have reacted even more harshly
and likewise Jade, who approached MC precisely by showing empathy for his situation, seems very far removed from the mother who refuses to talk about feelings with her daughter.
In that family for now the most dysfunctional still appears to be Sage
Tybalt is completely screwed in the head, so used to always getting what he wants, that he first can't even conceive that Jill doesn't want him no matter the obvious signs and when that finally sinks in he can't cope with it at all and just cries like a little child.
The parents both cheat on each other and probably are only still together to keep up the facade of a "normal family" even though they don't really love each other anymore (if they ever did in the first place).
I don't think they treated both Sage and Tybalt badly as in neglected them materially. But emotionally they are all scarred and all of them seem to be unable to really express any form of genuine warmth to each other.