I know it’s been talked about already, but based on this meeting with his mother, the pictures, and so on, it seems as though Nikki really did some emotional damage by hiding who she really was and the effect it had on him. The look on the mom’s face when she talked about the stress he went through when he came back was super telling. I fully support the community, but I do think Nikki should have told him from the jump. He was just a young kid and it seems as though this relationship really messed with his head. It’s really sad.
Of course she should have told him from the jump but it it much safer for her to have told him in the US than Moldova. That being said, weaponizing the truth like that is waaaaay fucked up.