Lilo ..Richard is like a stray cat he really doesn't have anyone that loves him. His only family he mentions his sister. All the players around him just use him and I'm sure all parties fear him because he is so detached. In the war he lost his penis and half his face and whether it is the 1920s or the present his loyalty remains with no one
In the show it is shown that Richard loses his virginity to the prostitute Odette. So he didn't lose his "little Richard".
As shown Richard has great capacity for loyalty under the right conditions. He is still operating as a soldier mentally. His loyalty was to Jimmy and Angela and has now been transferred to their son. Richard was ready to kill a man over possible harm to Tommy. He's going to do what he thinks is right for the boy. I bet he thinks that means breaking with Gillian at some point.
"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives." Winter is Coming Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
