Has anyone dated a “mommy’s boy” or consider yourself to be a “mommy’s boy”?

[Anonymous]

My boyfriend is a mommy’s boy. He basically goes with her advice for everything and never disagrees with her even if he may not like her suggestions. I’m not sure if this is good for our relationship. I mean, she hasn’t interfered in any way before but I’m just thinking about his need to get her approval on things. How that might pose a problem in future.

[Anonymous]

Dated and broke up with. The crazy thing was, about three months into us dating, I found out that his mom and my aunt were college roommates after he mentioned that his mom thought she knew my aunt. When it was true, this somehow seemed to ratchet up her instance that she be even more a part of our relationship and relationship decisions because her words, "we were practically family already." I hated the third wheel. We had to go to Sunday dinners where he would bring his laundry for her to do, and she would treat him like a baby bird. He would defer to "her expertise" on practically everything and her opinions of me and would absolutely try and gaslight me into thinking any opinion I had was wrong and that his mom was the one who came up with...oh god, eew. I just didn't like the idea that she was a blanket on our relationship and everything had to meet her approval and only she could always be right...and we weren't even that serious!

[sheenagwapa]

when me and my ex didn't have a relationship yet he was still courting but i just don't still have romantic feelings for him one of the things that made me find him attractive was when i saw him putting his arms in the shoulder of his mom


i just find it attractive and felt that whoever his girlfriend would be she would be in good hands

[Summeroflove]

If it doesn’t interfere with your relationship then why do you care. Would you rather him hate his mother? Maybe she gives sound advice. Don’t be controlling or jealous

[OlderAndWiser]

No one would call me a momma's boy in a million years.

[NathanDavis]

not even close to be any of that... no

and ideally... you would want a relationship to be of just two people, and not to NEED the validation of a third person that, by the way... is going to be sided

you would not one a situation in which your relationship turns into a situation of "two against you"

[Anonymous]

you'll notice when you flip the genders around and a its a girl getting advise from her father everything is fine.

Maybe the OP just doesn't like it when people have support networks as it makes isolating them and abusing them more difficult.

[Akam93]

Not yet. Lol