I feel like the difference is that she didn’t tell the dad about her ex, he doesn’t know anything about her beyond the fact she is the author of his daughter’s favorite book. She looks happy, she seems to care for his daughter which no shit but also seems to see herself in his daughter because she never really got to do much as a kid herself. She just seems happy in terms of actually not worrying about guys around him

if it isn’t the dad who she ends up with, I’m going to crash out bro, he is PERFECT dude