My husband says that when his son was born, he said - aloud so that he’d hear himself and make it more a fact- “It ends here”.

And he worked incredibly hard to make that true. I’ve never seen a father and son relationship as healthy as theirs. Boundaries, love, respect, and a lot of humor.

It makes a ton of sense. The show continually underscores the point that we’re all just people (or horses or cats, etc) who do good things and bad things and we should try as hard as we can to do more good and less bad. And he does that.

Add to all that the realization that this adult man did all this, not just to take advantage of your youth and inexperience, but because he actually wanted to get with you mom but she rejected him. And you look almost identical to her when she was your age.

An old friend of your mom’s shows up to visit. Seems super cool, befriends the whole family- but especially you. Insists on taking you to prom, insists on buying you liquor which one of your friends gets alcohol poisoning from. After having to be convinced to get help for her, this ‘friend’ dumps her at the er and makes sure your other friend lies about the situation before rushing off without even knowing if everything is going to be okay.

Then he’s willing to take advantage of you in a confused moment and the only reason he didn’t is that your mother walked in just as things were getting started. Sounds pretty traumatizing to me.