When I first married my husband, his son—let’s call him Leo—was thirteen. Leo didn’t watch the Super Bowl; he watched speedruns of 16-bit RPGs. He didn’t ask for car keys; he asked for a 3D printer to make Warhammer 40k terrain. For the first two years, I treated his interests like a foreign language I was forced to endure. His world was “unverified” in my mental ledger—not real socializing, not real entertainment, not a real lifestyle.
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