again another non diegetic one. Cream was just a baby when her parents split up. Had she grown up with her dad I'm sure he would have done his best to make everything look like it was fine when it wasn't. He probably would have been very sweet to her but on a very conditional basis. Vanilla would have felt pressured to pretend everything is fine for the sake of her daughter.

edit - Vanilla's maiden name is O'Hare and she went back to her maiden name after divorcing her husband as well as changing Cream's last name