How do I get his mother to take a few steps back from our life?
I will be marrying the man of my dreams in the end of October. Everything about our relationship is perfect except for one thing: his mother is overly involved in his life. She still does his laundry, cooks for him, and cleans his apartment pretty much every day. Last time when I went over to his place, she had even done my laundry!
Her involvement is just too much for me. I have tried to talk to him about it, but he just says that I’m overreacting. How do I get his mother to take a few steps back from our life?
So the man of your dreams is a mommy’s little boy, eh?
Well, look at it this way… You are in a lose-lose situation:
(A) You have gotten yourself your own personal maid. That in itself doesn’t have to be a bad thing, if she only comes to work when asked, and does only what she is told. However, there goes privacy out the window, and you are clearly not happy about that…
(B) You take over the role of maid, and ask her to stay the heck away… She will come to despise and perhaps even hate you — which is a normal mother-in-law / daughter-in-law relationship…
Pick your poison, and just suck it back.
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