It’s good to be caring and respectful towards one’s parents. In fact, it is often said that a man will treat his woman with love and respect if he treats his mother similarly. Hence when a man loves his mother and has a secure and close relationship with her that means its good news for the wife or girlfriend.

But the trouble starts when the relationship is well a little ‘too close’ for comfort of the woman. When the woman who rocked your cradle, starts to rule your life, that’s when you turn out to be, what is sardonically referred to as a ‘mama’s boy’. A mama’s boy follows his mother’s words as law and often would ask his wife to ‘compromise’. This kind of a behavior could be out of filial duty or because of his mistaken sense of obligation. Whatever is the motivation, it is a sure way of damaging a prospective relationship.

So why it is that women just don’t like mama’s boys?

The Other Woman

A relationship is about two individuals exploring the potentiality of love, warmth and togetherness. The problem starts when it is not just about two individuals but a third entity, his mother. Yeah, maybe not an immediate crisis but things get build up eventually in this case and danger is always hovering on the horizon! In such a scenario the third person, that too, an intrusive one makes the relationship face a lot of stifle.

Not Good Enough For Him

When the mother-in-law of a woman is too much in the picture, it can make the latter feel like she isn't doing a good job at keeping her man happy. If a woman is sharing her life with a man, she’d want to be the woman in his life. She’d not like to be compared to his mother all the time or would not like to hear that she can't cook or can't do things as well as their lover's mother.

No Privacy

Oftentimes the mama’s boy talks about intimate issues to his mother, so when his partner finds out that the man is childishly talking / complaining about the problems between them, she feels betrayed. Whatever is the problem in your relationship should remain between you two only. It’s simply revolting and unethical to go and tell all to your mother like a five year old school kid.

Her Wish Is His Command

A mama’s boy will do everything to follow his mother’s bidding, to an extent that he can even neglect his wife or children. This is often very insensitive and hurtful, especially when it starts to disturb your togetherness. And what is more annoying to the wife/partner is the way the mother takes it for granted that her every wish will be followed to the letter and at times even boasts about this thing in front of the wife!

God Mother

When significant decisions have to be made, like financial issues, his mother’s opinion is sought, and more often than not, she has the ultimate say. No woman likes to have her partner’s mother decide about how much you should spend on leisure each month or have too much of an opinion on everything from housekeeping to where the two of you should holiday.

Emotional Blackmail

There are some men who succumb to the emotional pleas (read blackmailing) of their mothers. “You don’t enjoy my company now because I have become old now na?” followed by a deep sigh of sorrow… is the pet dialogue. This is because she feels excluded even jealous now that her boy is not exclusively hers. And what is even more annoying is that the husband will refuse to acknowledge that she’s just playing with his feelings and in the process interfering in your life.

Your Woman Feels like The Second Fiddle

You might think that you have been the “Good Beta” but for your woman it might seem that your mother’s needs are given more importance and your woman is frigging supposed to ‘understand’ and again compromise. But ultimately, every woman in a relationship would like to be top priority in her man’s life and the mama’s boy doesn’t make room for this need. For him, his mother is the center of his universe.

Your Woman Feels Like A House Maid

In most modern homes in India, both the partners share household chores. It is because most women are working and they expect their husbands to help them out. A mama’s boy is so much used to being pamperred and mollycoddled by her mother that he won’t move his fat ass to pour himself a glass of water.