At my wedding, my partner’s Mom gave a speech detailing how when my partner was a child he’d wanted to marry her, (as in like..four year old). She talked at length about their special bond, referred to me marrying her “husband”, and stated she was glad he found someone to love as an adult as much as he loved her as a…

That makes sense! If a non-family member in his life used his bank accounts and had romantic-sounding conversations with him, it would sure look like he was having an emotional affair.

yesssss this so much.  I cannot handle the whole weird thing with friends posting about their “mini-me’s,” it really creeps me out.  And all those mothers who are suffocating their children, pretending that they are an “extension of them,” using them as happiness replacement objects - will be in for a rude awakening…

Mother of a son. I in no way feel this way. I have a deep and intense love of my son. He’s still very young but right now, I feel so privileged to get to see him becoming him and get to help him to know more about kindness, compassion and concern for others in his life’s path. He’s his own person as he reminds me when…

My mother definitely thinks of my brother like that, and it’s caused all of us to have some degree of fracture in our familial relationships. Even worse, is she views me (her daughter) as competition against my father when they were married.

That’s so wrong.

I was telling someone who was not a therapist but whose job was to help people process difficult emotions - that my (now ex) boyfriend had an inappropriate relationship with his mom. Their phone calls sounded like he was talking to an intimate partner, not a mom. He told me a lot of stories from his young childhood…

That is probably the creepiest thing I have read today.

I believe it.  My sister used to call her son her “little boyfriend.”  Weirdo.  Her whole life is those kids.  They’re isolated, on an island to themselves - they homeschool and do everything together.  She will fall apart when those kids leave the house.

Grandparents rights can be a HUGE problem when parents/in-laws lose their ever-living minds and actually become abusive to their kids after grandkids are born. I know that half the stories on r/JustNoMIL are fake, but enough of them are real that every parent who has half-cocked parents should be living in fear.

I’m a mother of a son. I do not think like this. If I did, my husband would not have married me or reproduced with me. I would not have married me.

When you’re socialized and conditioned to never think of yourself and serve other people your whole life, why is it funny when you no longer have anyone to serve anymore? Ha, ha all the children are out of the house, and now mom is a loser with no one to talk to.

Funny...

I’m sure a lot of people are going to jump on my dick about this but she makes me deeply deeply uncomfortable. Blah blah wholesome role model for my kid blah blah...sure, but there’s an unsettling manic quality to her, and this rabidly capitalistic infantilism of a now 16 year old makes me kind of nauseous. Also I…

I immediately thought of that Black Mirror episode. It's gotta be exhausting being that "up" all the time, especially at the age where teen angst is pretty high (or at least it was for me).

I’m a movie nerd and I used to be absolutely obsessed with Tarantino because a lot of his work comes off as being made by a nerd’s nerd, so-to-speak. If you’re into the grindhouse gore and B movie campiness as much as you’re into the epic scale of a great western/samurai movie and elegant plots of a great noir, his…

Pulp Fiction is mostly only good for the structure. You can get the same effect, and a better movie, with Reservoir Dogs. Otherwise, I don’t think you’re missing out on much. 

Thoughts and prayers.

You’re right, you’re right, I know you’re right!

I agree and I love your name.