![]() “Really, I’m just honored to meet her.”Īfter we picked up the rental car and finally reached the nursing home where she was staying, Pat briefed me on what exactly was going on with his mother. “My mom’s not in a good place,” he warned me before we traveled to his home state in the South. I was thrilled, but I didn’t get my hopes up too much. “I’m going to be traveling down to Atlanta to do comedy, and I was thinking maybe you could meet my family while we’re down there,” he suggested. Then, a few months after we began dating seriously, Pat floated an idea that left me ecstatic - and nervous. So I set it aside.īut I knew it then and I know it now: A man who doesn’t respect his mother is to be avoided at all costs (save for the ones who have overcome abusive moms, of course). I wondered if I had ventured into “Don’t ask, don’t tell” territory about his own relationship with his mom. ![]() So on my second date with my now-husband, I told him straight-up - half out of self-preservation, half out of fear - “I’ve always said, if you want to know if a guy is safe to date, see how he treats his mom.” ![]() When I broke that relationship off, my mom and I whispered what we both had long known to be true: “If he treats his mom like that, how will he treat other women?” I once dated a man who screamed bloody murder at his own mother in front of me - plus my own mother. Ellen Burstyn and Alfred Lutter in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
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