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These discussions always go down about why the characters are doing things that seem stupid or ridiculous, by picking on details rather than looking at the big picture. You have to remember none of it is really happening. Fiction is about what reality the author wants to show you. They're drawing what they want you to see, to make a point about something.
Here, Adrian playing "Sex and the City" with a lesbian community while Ali just kinda exists in the background is a commentary about the sort of people that Adrian and Hilde represent. This is underlined by how the author chooses to include Ali in the story now at this point, where previously he's just been an inert baby. He is creating drama from the obvious: where romantic fiction clashes with social responsibilities. Having several random women hanging around and fucking Ali's mom, developing the concept of "marriage jail", people talking adult stuff while he's sitting in the back seat, ignoring him - it's trying to show what an inconsiderate mother Adrian is, and how their social dynamic is more about the hedonism of adult relationships.
It's painting a picture about what happens when you're unbound by the more traditional moral codes or customs. On the surface Adrian is a good loving mother, but she's acting selfishly, misguided by a community of aimless self-centered, self-important... gay people!
I bet it ends with Adrian "re-discovering" that she's supposed to be a mom first instead of hopping around munching carpet all over town. That's where we really get into Rick's head: it's his self-doubt about what he's supposed to do with his life.
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