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When I was in high school, I used to talk to Alex on the phone every night. He was kind of like me, except he liked Weezer and went to an all boy's school. He was also a serious bible thumper, or rather, his mother was. She'd interrupt our phone conversations with a sharp "Time's Up" (I guess she'd allotted him a certain amount of fun each day and our conversations about what we had for lunch were pushing the limit). We'd inevitably hang up and I'd call up my best friend, "That woman is ruining my life!" Apart from being dramatic, I was apparently on the phone a lot in high school.
This phone game continued for months. We were at a stand still until one fateful night. I don't know how or why, but Alex was allowed to go his school mixer. As the night came to an end, I was sure I was going to get a kiss. Finally!
I closed my eyes and craned out my neck. I was probably not bold enough to purse my lips. And then I heard those three little words, "God's watching us." I guess you can never underestimate the effect a mother has on a child.
A few years later, he would be involved in an undisclosed incident involving the police, his girlfriend, and whipped cream. That's what happens when you listen to Weezer.
Have you ever dated a mama's boy? How did it impact your relationship?
Comments (16)
I fucking love Weezer... Screw you!
BAHAHAHa. i love the way you wrote this.
My imagination goes astray with the line " incident involving the police, his girlfriend, and whipped cream." I wish I was there to see that. I would love to put the video of that on youtube (or youporn, which ever is more proper).
And that's why too much control leads to chaos. My friend is a mama's boy, still is and he goes to college 6hrs away from home. Poor little bastard. =(
@SaClaudy@xanga - hahahaha. mine too! i wanna know what happend. o.O
xo
Very well written haha.
I perceive myself as a bit of a mama's boy =P
Ah... I was involved with someone like that. Drove me crazy... If you control children too much they will run wild, when they can... just *because* they can. :sigh:
@JessxMaxine@xanga - OMG, you have a super poke pet...add...add
Hahahaha. I love it. :D
To answer your question, no, I have not.
Oh yes. It's not a good thing. Too much influence from ANYONE is not good. You should have your own outlook, opinions, and decisions when it comes to your life.
eh you date someone, you date their family.
my boyfriend's a total mama's boy too. I wouldn't say I mind too much.. its a little endearing.. only sometimes though. Sometimes I wish he'd be more of a man
shhh
I've dated three mama's boys. Fucking awful experience.
TL;DR WARNING: Not necessary to read. XD
The first one resented his dad and used to cut himself. His mom was always there for him, which was cool, but not when the mom turns her own son into a giant pussy. No siblings.
The second one grew up without a father, and without siblings. He was sheltered, until he joined the army. He thought he was so cool when he would cuss, make dirty jokes, and go through two packs of cigarettes a day. He cried like a little girl when I broke up with him (seriously. We were dating for 2 1/2 weeks when he told me he wanted to get an apartment in the city I used to live in just so we could be together. He was stationed an hour from where I used to live).
The third one, I met through Match.com and thought he seemed like a decent guy. After dating him for maybe 5 months, I realized he's a little bitch. Grew up resenting his father and being buddy-buddy with his mother, no siblings at all. Effeminate, with flowy hair and dressed too well for a guy (he would only buy Guess jeans and they had to look just right in order for them to be up to par with his ridiculously high standards). I've dated a lot of jerks, but this was by far the worse. Yeah, he would open doors for me, take me out to eat, and for some weird reason he spent a little over $300 in makeup for me! O_o (It was an expensive brand, which I turned out to be allergic to). I dunno, I was creeped out when he tried to teach me how to ballroom dance on our first date, and on our third date called me "his petite princess" when he tried to guess why I was eating sushi so slow (sushi tastes bad, imo, which is why I was eating it slow).
Ugh... anyway, after dealing with his girly side for so long, his extremely rude side came out. He was an atheist liberal, and I'm a conservative Christian. He would criticize me and my family for our beliefs and was upset that I was not an Obama supporter.
I finally decided to dump him, and he couldn't understand why. He was also crying. :|
Mama's boy + only child = complete mess. If I wanted to date a girl, I would become a lesbian.
/currently living with a masculine guy, who has siblings, and the only time I saw him shed tears was when his mother passed away... I don't mean that in a bad way at all, I was totally supportive of him over that weekend... but I'm just glad he's not a little bitch and crying over spilt milk, like my ex-boyfriends did. He shops like a normal guy, eats like a normal guy, and acts like a normal guy. It helps that his family is predominately male, since mine is predominately female.
Well I've dated a guy who was a mama's boy but he was independent of her. His mother was the sweetest old lady ever and he'd call her from time to time (she lived abroad) and it was the most adorable thing ever.
He was living by himself, so, it was a lot easier.
lmfao God's watching us.. that's pretty weird!! and I think Weezer's awesome :P! and I don't play with Whip cream and police officers .. my boyfriends a mama's boy but he's not crazy, he just loves her
that was a great story (:
my ex was a momma's boy. and oh boy was she involved in everything. we would go out to see a movie or something and she would be calling him every 30 minutes asking "are you done yet?" this would annoy me so much and frustrate me that she had to baby him so much. everytime she saw me she had a comment to make about my clothes how they were too tight or too big. she always foung something wrong with me and even though i tried to talk to her she never would never talk to me for more than 5 minutes. we went out for 2 years and during that time she never learned my name, i was always referred to as that girl. i broke up with him because things just werent working and i later found out that he had been cheating on me and his mom had agreed,
Wow! I think your post made my day. I seem to always find the ones that have awful relationships with their mothers. The guys who don't want anything to do with their mother and would sooner move out at 16 then ever see "that woman" again. However, there was one guy who was a complete Mama's boy. It really, really, really did not work out! He turned out be such a drain on my psyche that I regret every second spent with him.