Reddit idiosyncratic jesk_680 precocious asked radical who person dated "momma's boys" and "daddy's small princesses" to stock the last straw that made them determine to permission the relationship. The replies were overwhelmingly filled with fearfulness stories of momma's boys, truthful we've got to stock immoderate of the astir diabolical, shocking stories we came across:
1. "At 20 years old, his ma didn't privation him spending the nighttime with his woman (me). He decided to bash it anyhow due to the fact that helium was an adult. We went retired to meal that night, and I got a substance from my roommate that his ma was virtually camped successful the lobby of our flat building, buzzing our bell, screaming astatine my roommate that helium was lying and we really WERE successful determination and that she would beryllium and hold until we yet had to permission the apartment. She besides kept calling my fellow and maine nonstop during this. We stayed retired until midnight, past dilatory drove past my flat to marque definite she wasn't inactive there. It didn't past precise agelong aft that…"
2. "My ex would telephone his mum play to thrust 1 hr to his level to cleanable it and instrumentality his soiled laundry with her. With each visit, she gave him past week's laundry back, each cleaned and ironed. He was 30 years aged and perfectly susceptible of doing these things connected his own. He adjacent owned a washing instrumentality and a dryer. His argument? His ma wanted to bash it, and helium didn't privation to instrumentality this 'fun' from her. Not adjacent erstwhile I moved successful with him. It was truthful embarrassing. He adjacent was huffy astatine maine erstwhile I washed my ain clothes. He wanted maine to besides springiness them to his mum."
3. "I got invited retired to luncheon with conscionable his mom. I thought it was for her to get to cognize maine one-on-one. Noooo. She started by saying thing she said could beryllium shared with her lad and that she didn't privation secrets. Then the bullshit started. Did I cognize his friends didn't similar me? Do we deterioration condoms? I told my now-ex astir it afterward. He brought it up with her, and she claimed she ne'er said immoderate of it and I was a liar. He believed her. Thank deity she showed maine what I was getting into earlier it was excessively late."
4. "My ex-boyfriend had to clasp my manus and his mom's manus an adjacent magnitude anytime we went anywhere. He would clasp my hand, and past 'halfway through' immoderate we were doing, helium would spell clasp his mom's manus for the remainder of the time."
5. "She tried to merchantability my engagement ringing connected Facebook marketplace aft a immense blow-up betwixt her lad and maine implicit her showing up astatine my location whenever she pleased."
6. "He had his manus connected his mom's butt during the mother-son creation astatine our wedding. He was an lone lad and a existent momma's boy. I initially thought it was saccharine and benignant of ignored the reddish flags. We had to person meal astatine her location erstwhile a week. She had to person keys to our house. He kissed her connected the lips erstwhile saying goodbye. She had to beryllium progressive successful each decision. But past came the wedding. She made definite to spot her broadside of the household connected my broadside of the aisle truthful that her household took the beforehand rows. My ex thankfully made them each determination due to the fact that I had already warned him that I wouldn't look if that happened. All was good done the ceremony. She cried and hugged america after. Dinner was fine, and the speeches were okay. But for the remainder of the night, that broadside of the household sat successful the corner, ignoring everyone."
"But past came our archetypal dance. Looking astatine the video and pictures, we looked similar awkward cousins being forced to creation together. The mother-son creation was romantic, to the constituent that our friends and radical from enactment (including my boss) took videos of it due to the fact that they ne'er believed maine erstwhile I said they were weirdly close. They looked similar a joined couple. It was mortifying! When his mum and dada said goodbye to america that night, they tried to buss maine connected the lips, and I noped out. After the mother-son dance, I drank a lot. We lasted 3 months aft that earlier I called it quits and left. Last I heard, helium was buying a location with his mum."
7. "I had a bosom onslaught the Friday earlier Mother's Day. He inactive near maine successful the hospital, alone, and drove 3 hours to spell person meal with his mother...even though determination was already a Mother's Day meal planned for that Sunday. His ma ever had to marque definite I knew that she was #1, and his beingness determination was much important than being with maine successful the infirmary and making immoderate decisions if I was incapacitated. You cognize it's atrocious erstwhile the nurses manus you slips of insubstantial with the interaction accusation of divorcement attorneys earlier you are discharged. Yes, I near him."
8. "His ma had a cardinal to our apartment, and she would conscionable usage the cardinal to participate the flat without adjacent knocking during immoderate clip of the day. She'd besides leap into his furniture if he's successful the furniture and cuddle with him. We were 26."
"Omg, my ex's mum utilized to bash that each the time. She'd conscionable locomotion in! She did it erstwhile once my ex and I were having sex. She tried to barge into the bath connected different juncture to instrumentality a dump due to the fact that she 'couldn't hold 'til she got home.' I was successful the bath, truthful she stormed retired successful a huff. She lived 2 minutes away, btw! We were owed to spell distant with her to sojourn her dada once, and she said, 'Be acceptable by 8:00 a.m.,' truthful we acceptable alarms for 7:15. She came into the damn chamber astatine 7:00 a.m. and started pulling connected his limb hair. I utilized to slumber successful conscionable my underwear, nary top, and she tried to propulsion the covers off. Then, erstwhile I told her to stop, she went and got a cupful of h2o and threatened to propulsion it connected us.
God, that pistillate is bizarre. I wholly forgot astir a batch of the worldly she did. Oh! Another time, she fto herself successful erstwhile we were out, and I'd made pumpkin pastry with beverage and butter. Well, she ate fractional of a freaking pie. She's vegan. I'm getting huffy now, lol.
The past straw for me, though, was erstwhile I was giving him wealth to prevention for maine (he was financially abusive), and I wanted to instrumentality immoderate of it out; helium told maine I couldn't due to the fact that his mum had spent it, and helium was storing my currency successful their shared slope account. I got it backmost but didn't spot either of them again. We broke up astir six months later."
9. "We lived successful different country, and his ma perpetually had his small sister telephone him crying due to the fact that we took a travel unneurotic and didn't sojourn her. She was similar 7 and didn't person societal media, truthful his ma would spot the photos, archer his sister we were traveling to spot them, and past days aboriginal archer her we went determination other instead. His parents were some retired and could question to wherever we lived for escaped but conveniently were ever excessively engaged to travel visit."
10. "It was his 29th day dinner. We met up with his ma and her spouse for a casual dinner. She brought a tiny circular barroom (pre-made) and a candle. We sang 'Happy Birthday.' He blew retired the candle. She utilized her scale digit to swipe up immoderate rogue frosting that was connected the integrative sheet holding the cake. She raised her scale digit and the frosting toward him. He took her digit into his mouth, and erstwhile it reemerged, determination was nary frosting. Did helium suck it off? Swirl his lingua astir her finger? I volition ne'er know."
11. "He utilized to nonstop pictures of maine to his ma for her to justice however I was dressed. He wanted her sentiment connected each fucking thing. She adjacent said I looked good erstwhile due to the fact that I was 'just bones.' Another time, she said I looked similar an English teacher (she was referring to the stereotype of an aged lady; I was 28 astatine the moment). He laughed and thought it was funny, but it did undermine my confidence. Now, I judge they were some conscionable jealous."
12. "He would telephone his ma each day. It wasn't that large of a reddish emblem astatine first. One time, she called successful the mediate of our date, and they proceeded to speech successful their autochthonal connection for 20 minutes portion I conscionable sat there. He would inquire his ma for her sentiment connected everything and couldn't look to marque immoderate decisions for himself, adjacent arsenic tiny arsenic whether oregon not helium should bargain caller gloves. I recovered retired his ma was calling him by the cheesy nickname I utilized for him. The past straw was that helium said helium wouldn't spell to my location state due to the fact that his ma made him committedness not to."
13. "His ma packed him a luncheon erstwhile we were heading retired for the day. Just him. She didn't battalion thing for me. Then she texted him astir the full time, and helium answered each azygous one. He was 26."
14. "When I cooked, helium would say, 'That's not however my ma does it.'"
"This is the worst! I made crushed beef 1 nighttime and utilized a method I learned from an astonishing pistillate I paid to navigator for maine once. I did it wrong. He ended up liking the dish, but due to the fact that I utilized a antithetic method than his Midwestern Lutheran mom, it was a occurrence I didn't nonstop him to the hospital. I stopped cooking aft that, but for scrambled eggs. I marque awesome eggs, provided you don't similar them runny. I don't deliberation helium had ever had non-runny eggs. I hatred runny eggs, truthful if I'm cooking, they volition beryllium made my way."
15. "My ex-husband and I got joined astatine metropolis hallway and past had a tiny destination wedding of 16 guests for family, etc. His parents, specifically his mom, said a fewer times, 'But everyone wants to conscionable you! Why can't you person a large wedding? Blah, blah, blah. Our thought was that we would person our full lives to conscionable and spot people. We wanted a tiny wedding. We agreed to spell backmost to his hometown soon aft to conscionable his extended family. His ma mentioned I should bring my wedding formal due to the fact that radical would privation to spot it, and I laughed it off, saying, 'Um, no, I'm not going to spell to meal successful a gown!' reasoning she was joking. When we went to 'dinner' the archetypal night, we pulled into a play nine and walked into fundamentally a 200-person wedding. My wedding. That I didn't cognize about. That she wanted maine to deterioration my wedding formal for."
"It was truthful surreal. The full acquisition was a blur. One of my ex's friends gave maine a Xanax, which helped, lol. I conscionable retrieve not being capable to glean from him if helium knew what was happening oregon if helium was besides ambushed, but his vibe was hey, it's already happening, truthful let's rotation with it! Which I did, but that was it. I knew I couldn't trust connected him for fucking anything! We got divorced 8 months later."
16. "This really happened aft our breakup, but I deliberation it belongs here. While we were dating, I'd fto him get my car to get to enactment oregon set practice. It was an older car, and I had a fewer circumstantial rules astir utilizing it due to the fact that it couldn't beryllium pushed excessively hard. He ignored those rules and fucked up my car aggregate times, causing breakdowns, and past bitched astir having to transportation successful for repairs. This isn't relevant, but it showcases his consciousness of entitlement. Anyway, erstwhile we yet broke up, his ma bought him a car since helium couldn't spend his ain car and evidently couldn't usage excavation anymore. This dude was astir 30 and couldn't adjacent spend to bargain himself a clunker to get around."
"I became friends with his adjacent ex aft maine (he's an asshole but honestly has large sensation successful women), and it turns retired helium wrecked that car, and Mommy Dearest bought him another, which helium besides wrecked."
17. "For a portion backmost successful precocious school, I was dating this guy, and his ma kept telling him I wasn't beauteous capable for him and that helium deserved a miss who was truly pretty, similar a cheerleader oregon something. He was a beauteous average-looking '90s lad with bleached blonde hair. I was an alt girlie. We weren't wholly mismatched, but possibly a little, I guess. Anyway, if I called the location to chat with him, she'd either not reply the telephone oregon prevarication and accidental helium wasn't around. He called backmost a fewer times and apologized for his ma being a bitch. Once, I heard her say, 'Why haven't you dumped her and recovered your princess yet?'"
"After a while, it conscionable got annoying. The narration yet fizzled out, and helium ended up dating idiosyncratic else. She really called maine 1 clip and asked, 'How the hellhole did you woody with his mom?'"
18. "I recovered retired his ma was buying the condoms we used. He utilized to get truthful excited erstwhile he'd bring implicit flavored ones oregon ribbed ones to try. I ended it erstwhile I figured retired his ma was getting them for him the full clip to guarantee helium was safe. 🤢🤮"
19. "My breaking constituent was erstwhile helium and his ma took a solo vacation. He wasn't allowed to beryllium connected his phone, truthful we didn't person immoderate interaction during the full vacation, and they shared nary pictures of that vacation. Her hubby (the boy's stepfather) was not invited connected this abrogation either; it was conscionable the 2 of them. He was 19 astatine the clip of this abrogation and was expected to travel location the time earlier my birthday. So, connected my birthday, I planned a meal day with him to celebrate. I waited 45 minutes for him to amusement up. I called him. I texted him. No response. His parent called maine 45 minutes aft helium was expected to beryllium determination and said, 'He's excessively worn retired from his vacation, truthful he's not gonna beryllium coming to the meal date. He'll substance you tomorrow,' and hung up connected me."
"She and her hubby went connected a play travel earlier this abrogation with her son. It was the lone abrogation I had ever heard astir her and her hubby going on. Before she was consenting to leave, she had to acquisition a full location information package, including cameras wrong and extracurricular the house, to ticker her 19-year-old lad and guarantee that I wasn't coming implicit erstwhile she wasn't location to supervise. For a play trip.
She and her hubby are nary longer married. She hasn't been joined again. My ex hasn't had a woman since I broke up with him, and this was 10 years ago. He purchased the location adjacent doorway to his present divorced mother, and they enactment together. They're unneurotic 24/7. That's not an exaggeration. She homeschooled him his full childhood. He concisely moved retired to spell to assemblage and was backmost surviving astatine location wrong six months of moving out. They don't person immoderate different friends. They've been unneurotic 24/7 since helium was born."
20. "In precocious school, I dated a feline whose ma would present him cut-up chickenhearted nuggets (like you bash for a toddler truthful they don't instrumentality excessively large of a bite) and applesauce from a pouch for dinners to his video crippled country portion helium played Xbox. He ended up being incredibly self-centered and emotionally immature. Completely unrelated, I'm sure."
21. "He consulted his household and returned with a bulleted database (I deliberation determination were astatine slightest 5 items) of everything helium and his ma hated astir me. It was virtually a show betterment program consisting of everything helium (and she) wanted maine to bash amended successful the relationship."
22. "Once, helium didn't archer maine his parent was driving implicit 2 hours to rip maine a caller 1 astir however I wasn't bully capable for her son. That's erstwhile I knew for definite that helium loved her much than me, and that's not what a matrimony is about. Don't worry, we called it disconnected and I lone mislaid the deposit connected the venue."
23. "We wanted to program a vacation together. I had immoderate suggestions of wherever to spell and asked him for his. He said helium didn't cognize and had to inquire his ma what helium liked."
24. "His ma took his sandwich (which she had made) into the room to adhd crockery pick due to the fact that 'she knows however helium likes it.' Also, she spoon-fed him his medicine. He was 38 astatine the time."
25. "When we got location from the archetypal clip I met his parents (we lived a agelong mode isolated and were engaged by that point), helium got a precise long, melodramatic telephone from his parent astir however she disapproved of maine and they wouldn't beryllium astatine the wedding. And helium didn't combat her; helium called it off. The dude was 40ish astatine the time. I knew helium was adjacent to them, but I had nary thought helium was specified a momma's boy. Bullet dodged."
26. "He wouldn't speech to maine astir immoderate of our narration issues. Instead, he'd spell to his mother, and she'd archer him what I should do, who I should be. I met the pistillate erstwhile for 5 minutes. He was besides unemployed. I paid the bills, cleaned the house, did laundry, and cooked. He sat astir 'figuring things out.' Yet, I wasn't bully enough, arsenic I did not person a PhD (he has one). He present lives disconnected his household without a job. He's successful his precocious 40s."
27. "We had breached up/gotten backmost unneurotic a fewer times, truthful my past straw really happened aft we had breached up for what was to beryllium the past time. This was close aft college, truthful we were 22/23. We had been readying our wedding, and I had been asking him for months for a impermanent database for his side. He kept saying that his ma was moving connected it, and I kept asking him to inquire her for it. In 1 of our discussions aft the breakup, helium told maine that his ma had been waiting for ME to inquire her for the list, and if I had conscionable asked, she would person fixed it to me, and she saw it arsenic an insult that I wouldn't inquire her directly."
"At that moment, I realized it was ne'er going to beryllium america vs. the problem; it was going to beryllium maine vs. him and his ma whenever we disagreed. Any lingering feelings astir getting backmost unneurotic evaporated."
28. "I dated a momma's boy. I was up for a promotion astatine my job, and helium someway made it astir himself and yet said, 'My ma wouldn't similar you. You're excessively independent.' I had to inquire him to clarify due to the fact that this was implicit a JOB PROMOTION I worked my butt disconnected for. And helium said, 'She would privation you to not attraction astir a occupation promotion and privation you to beryllium much home for me.' I said chill and left."
29. "When I was similar 21, I dated a dude who was 24, and his ma wouldn't fto him walk the nighttime and wouldn't fto maine travel implicit and threatened to crook disconnected his telephone and instrumentality distant his car security if helium did. She called maine a whore the full clip due to the fact that her small babe was having an big relationship. For our archetypal Christmas, helium got maine a poster (not a problem), and helium got his ma a decorator container and a Pandora bracelet. Like, conscionable spell day your ma already?"
30. "His ma called maine to docket hanging retired with him due to the fact that helium was 'sad and needed motivation enactment but was excessively shy to explicit it.' We were 20."
31. "I had known him for a period and hadn't adjacent kissed him yet. He got a tummy bug for a fewer days. I had food, snacks, and h2o delivered to him (he lived implicit an hr distant from me). His mum and his sisters threw a acceptable due to the fact that I didn't adjacent amusement up to navigator for him. How situation I mistreat him this way? Anyway, that was the past straw, and I blocked him."
32. "The archetypal contented was erstwhile he, arsenic a grown big antheral with a career, had to prevarication to his parent astir sleeping implicit astatine my place. The last straw was being connected a meal day and having his ma connected FaceTime the entirety of the day with america due to the fact that 'she missed him and felt neglected' present that helium had a woman and wasn't spending arsenic overmuch clip with her. I broke it disconnected erstwhile helium dropped maine astatine location aft dinner."
33. And: "My ex and I didn't unrecorded unneurotic earlier marriage. His parents were truly spiritual and wouldn't o.k. of it, and I was young (23) and highly naive. I figured it would beryllium good since we'd been unneurotic for astir 8 years. I realized rapidly that helium expected maine to bash everything: the shopping, the cooking, the dishes, the laundry, cleaning, etc. He erstwhile asked maine portion we were eating meal (again, 1 I had shopped for and cooked) if I could get up and get him a solid of water. I had NO thought his ma was doing virtually everything for him astatine home, and that's what helium was expecting of me, too."
"When I tried pointing retired that his ma was a stay-at-home ma with nary job, and truthful much disposable to assistance with things similar buying and laundry, whereas I had a full-time occupation making 3 times the wealth helium was and that I fundamentally paid each our bills myself, helium started screaming astatine maine that I was questioning his manhood and helium wouldn't basal for it. I was not having it.
Then helium started shoving maine astir and tried to termination my kitten, truthful there's that. I'm present happily joined to my hubby of 10 years, who does everything for himself: cooks, cleans, does our laundry, dishes, etc., and is champion friends with the present 14-year-old cat."
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