A great classic
It is strange there is no "step mother"
you know how being a single mother halves a woman´s smv it happens the same for a man who is an emotional trainwreack that starts crying whenever he talks about his ex- who died and who is so dirt poor that he can not afford a television!
so why would there be a stepmom unless she was a barren woman who would only be with Neil because she wanted to transfer her motherly needs to the MC ?
Neil is weak emotionally
poor and
comes with too much baggage!
besides he as no set talent bravery or potential,
he does not even have a decent house even an homeless woman as better cold protection/isolation in a cardbox then the MC did during winter ...
except for a quickie in exchange for an house fix no woman would want him he as nothing to give except his son which for the vast majority of women is an hindrance!
i mean seriously he is a construction worker and he can not find the drive to fix his own house wtf is that? does putting in some unpaid work for himself makes him cry remembering it was his plan with Lynette and that is why he can not be bothered?