How do I deal with my boyfriends high maintenance mother?

Alice2398
Dont get me wrong i love my boyfriends mum. she's amazing and so inspirational. She takes care of her family whilst running two jobs, a charity and cares for her blind 93 year old mother, deaf father and down syndrome brother whilst also battling cancer one and off for years and dealing with the death of her older brother so well. She is one heck of a woman and i have so much respect for her... But she can be extremely high maintenance at times.

At first it was her pushing a close relationship to early on with me what was making me feel uncomfortable. Shed think if i wasn't down stairs talking with her all day i must have fallen out with her and she constantly wanting to spend time with me. Like im dating your son not you but i soon managed to deal with that issue.

Also privacy was another big factor in my relationship with her too. She would walk into my boyfriends room whenever shed like to sit on his bed and talk to me whilst im hiding my naked body under his covers hoping she doesn't notice. First time i met her she nearly walked in on us and made a big deal out of it and made me feel really uncomfortable and embarrassed but she said as long as we were using protection she didn't mind.

Now its not me she's upsetting its my boyfriend. He loves his football and I've always known football comes first with men as my dad's just the same and i respect but he has hobbies outside are relationship. i think its healthy to as well.

His mum keeps telling him if he ditches me for another football game im gonna be mad at him which makes him feel worried and selfish. Also the other day my dad invited my boyfriend round to watch the game and his mum called him selfish but he was only going down to watch football and not see me in a weekday when usually he says its too expensive to see me in the weekdays at home. My dad invited him and its a one off. But my boyfriend was feeling really horrible afterwards and kept telling me he was sorry if it came off bad.
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Also we cooked some food this weekend my boyfriend got a little stressed with himself. She said to me "you really wanna live with that Alice?"

And said to my boyfriend "i wouldn't be surprised if Alice leaves you by time next year" i hate when she says stuff like that as i love my boyfriend.

she's not really selling her son to me by always making out like he's a bad person when he definitely isn't. I wish she'd stop making him feel bad about himself
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and saying this stuff it makes me feel awkward and uncomfortable and i dont want her bringing down the man i love as it upsets me too.

She was okay with encouraging him to buy a £300 coat when he said he was too poor to go on holiday with me but he's selfish when he wants to go see football with his friends
How do I deal with my boyfriends high maintenance mother?
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