Not sure if this is the right form to post this in, but I need help. My MC was abducted by an adult alien and he had to stay in space for 40 years without aging for a reason that's not important to this post. The MC started to think of the alien as sort of a dad ( he only lived with his grandma back on Earth) and the alien started to treat the MC like he was his son. When the MC returns to Earth his grandma is dead so he goes and lives with the alien, but the alien fell in love with an Earth woman. I want the Earth woman and the alien to get married and for the alien to adopt the MC, but here's the catch... the Earth woman's parent's were friends of the MC 40 years ago. So if the Earth woman and the alien got married the and adopted the MC the MC's new grandparents would be his old friends which would be super awkward.
So I thought... what if there was a type of alien adoption so that the alien could adopt the MC, but his wife, the Earth woman, wouldn't adopt the MC and therefore her parents wouldn't be related to the MC. Is that weird or my best option? Does this even make sense? Maybe I could just make the alien and the Earth woman engaged and have the alien adopt the MC? I don't know.
So I thought... what if there was a type of alien adoption so that the alien could adopt the MC, but his wife, the Earth woman, wouldn't adopt the MC and therefore her parents wouldn't be related to the MC. Is that weird or my best option? Does this even make sense? Maybe I could just make the alien and the Earth woman engaged and have the alien adopt the MC? I don't know.