Umm, but how will she do that? "Please adopt my stepson, random stranger! I will pay the child support with a mine."
Duke only adopted him in the Og novel because he was kicked out. But it would be shady to try to hand over your child to a random single guy, especially a guy young enough to marry and have his own heirs.
She literally give him an information, she can just saying something like "Can you be my son god father, I want him grow up knowing more about how to handle ducy, since my late husband and me doesn't have other child so I wish him to grow up to be a good next Lord" it's actually very common in noble household.
Or like I said she can just try to build relationships by little and little, as someone who experiences the same thing she should know best how much Hir anxiety and thrust issue. Yeet here she is suddenly getting married with random stranger.
I think having a mother asking for help to teach her kids to be a good lord more make sense, when there only a child who possibly stay in his house instead of having a random woman ask contract married with random reason that will make her come to her house and will have power as house lady to dig something.
Did the Mangago just cut my comments.
I literally explain about She can just build relationships little by little.
And also I explain it's no good for the child since the guy being a prior character in the novel because he save Hir and become benefactor. Since in this life the FL didn't chase hir out thn the Guy just a random stranger to hir.
I was assuming that sort of thing only happen when the households are of similar ranks? Ml is a Duke and her late husband's rank is way lower (as far as I remember). Plus, she is commoner by blood and a widow. Socially, it would make more sense for her to look like she "seduced her way up like before". And with a child this young, it would make more sense for her to hire tutors instead of asking for help from a Duke she isn't even acquainted with. According to Og novel, the Duke is pretty cold to women so her approach was the safer option.
And if the Duke didn't like her, he or his mother could always limit or remove her authority as the (future) Duchess privately. It's even possible to lock her up and treat her badly till she soon dies of 'natural causes' if they are worried about rumours and stuff. (like what happened to a lot of MCs before they went back in time)
Girl wtf, okay I understand your excuse by wanting to send Hir to His soon to be God father because you don't want he seeing you and traumatize him. Thn just send him, the married just so unnecessary, just by marry him it's still mean the three of you will live in the same house. Thn what's the point?