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Each time I reread this, I pity the uke more and more. It's not even about being trapped and manipulated, that fraction of a second when you freak out and look everywhere for someone thinking they are vulnerable because of something you did in the past....that would give me a heart attack. I would rather be oblivious and blind to manipulation than be made to have multiple episodes of that on a daily basis.
I despise the seme for it. In a twisted way, I get that this is the only way he can think of to keep the uke around him. However, it's too much to keep making him run around all the time with that frantic look on his face and keep making him seem like an asshole to everyone else when he is a victim. At least the seme is still suffering so there is that. If he was happy, this would have been much shittier

There's healing in well-placed and well deserved justice. You don't have to reconcile with your abusers, simply because their family.

This isn't a case of cutting off toxic people because of manipulation/narcissism/unacceptance/homophobia/neglect/etc. This is a case of, when being confronted with the possibility that her boyfriend is taking his sexual frustrations off on her child, being jealous instead of protective. This is a case of making money off her child being r*ped by her own clients. Even if she doesn't like him because she was her own child, the fact that he was so young...
One of the things I liked about her was understanding how she came to be and to how she took what actions she took (r&ped by a criminal, abandoned, young), but I always assumed that in no way makes her actions excusable. At all. I assumed that she wouldn't be rewarded.
The only reason why she wanted to reconcile with momo, why she wanted the physically symbolic ring of his, once upon a time, want to be a son to her, and, now, reconciliation, is so that She Can Feel Better About Herself when she leaves him behind to start a better, new life with her new family. (And she admits so!!)
The only thing I hated about this is that they rewarded her.
Cutting her off is good for momo, but her selfishly returning to make herself feel good before she leaves wasn't something that brought momo closure, it dug up painful childhood memories of being r*ped so horribly he thought he'd die, in Her Presence. They should've reinforced in momo first of all that he doesn't have to ever forgive her, or make her feel better by ending their relationship on a good note, if He Doesn't Want To.

Everyone (author, characters, even momo) for some reason wanted to unanimously validate her, decided to be indulgent of her. For what?
"I've seen closely what hardships a single woman goes through to raise a child" what single woman makes money off of their clients r*ping their child? Did his grandmother make money by having ppl r*pe him? Is he implying that he saw "closely" how his grandmother made money off of letting men r*pe him? Obviously not! Because, Yes single women struggle, but she and other single women are not the same.