Eve, she isn't really in touch with Steve....they haven't fallen out ( so he says) but they don't speak...I have given up asking him to message her now. To be honest, I know things were difficult with regards his childhood and hers....he looked after her from a baby and Carl too, when his mum chucked him out, he was banned from seeing the kids then when his mum got cancer he was allowed to see them sometimes, then when she died Eddie banned him from seeing the children, he used to get a call from Colette saying could Steve come save her as Eddie was being nasty in the pub and Steve used to go sort it.
Now he never hears from her or in fact any of his family unless they want anything and after Christmas I have given up biting my tongue...I just tell him how it is now, it's ashame as he is missing out on his neices and nephews lives