I would like to share my story with you and maybe you will advise me what to do 😊

A few months ago I left a guy, it was very hard for me because I loved him so much. We planned to start a family, he was a wonderful partner, he was affectionate, we had many things in common. Everything was great until his mother started coming between us. She must have realized that this was something serious and she started to give me a hard time for some reason, even though her son was very happy with me. But now I see that she was morbidly jealous of me. He doesn't keep in touch with his father at all, his mother has no partner. She only has a son. Me and him, we are in our 20s.

It all started innocently - phone calls from time to time when we were together, she needed him to do her shopping, to change the tires etc. I was understanding, I help my parents myself, but after a while I realized that it was too much. Every time he was with me, his mother would call and ask him to come. What's more she was texting him and she was reminding him that she loved him the most, etc. Once we had a trip planned and she said she was not feeling well. When he wanted to go, she burst into tears. And I want to emphasize that she doesn't have any chronic diseases, she keeps fit, she takes care of herself pretty well. She is in her 50s. As soon as she had a cold, she told him that she did not want to feel lonely in her illness, forcing him to stay with her.
Later she started to criticise me and my gifts for him. Once she didn't like the T-shirt I bought him, another time she didn't like the perfume. It influenced my self-esteem. She could interfere in our conversations, arguments... She was forcing him to declare that she was the most important person for him. She was talking to him like he was a little boy, and he has never told her to stop. I couldn't handle it. I have never hurt her in any way, on the contrary, I always tried to get on well with her. His reactions hurt me the most. When I told him that it hurt me, he either said that she cares for him, or he talked and she said she didn't know what I meant, that she likes me so much, that I am a wonderful, valuable woman I felt like I was being made a madman who makes a mountain out of a molehill...
At some point, I couldn't handle her criticism anymore and I decided to break up.

Several months passed, he contacted me. He wants to keep in touch, he wants to come back. I do not know what to do. I still have feelings for him because I loved him so much, but his mother is a nightmare. I was thinking of offering him therapy? Because the problem is clearly also in him, he can't set healthy boundaries... What do you think?