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Old Mar 18, 2013, 03:15 PM
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I have been dating my boyfriend for 6 months and it has been a great six months. He feels my mother doesn't like him. I don't see why she wouldn't though he is great guy. He treats me really good and he loves me a lot. I try to tell him all the time when he brings up the fact that he thinks my mother doesn't like him that her opionon matters to me as much as a grain of salt matters to me. See my mom wasn't the best of moms. She was 19 when she had me and 21 when she had my sister and she wasn't ready to give up her party days. Almost every night we were either left with a drunk father or a babysitter so she could go out and party and sleep with every Tom, ****, and Harry she met. It wasn't till I was about 13 or 14 that my mom really grew up by this point she would of been in her early 30s. See the three people who matter the most to me like him in fact they all tell me all the time that he is a keeper and I better not let this one get away. He just can't get over the fact that he thinks my mom doesn't like him. How can I make him realize that what she thinks means nothing to me and that I have the support from the three people who matter most?

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Old Mar 18, 2013, 03:56 PM
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It doesn't matter that what she thinks doesn't matter to you; it does to him. I would sit down with him and your mother and have a frank conversation. That way he could learn directly from her what she actually does think about him and/or maybe realize her opinion isn't as important to him as he first thought. It sounds like she can't have much of a "correct" opinion about him and he should be able to see that; likewise, if you are glossing over some of his imperfections (everyone has them) that might/should matter, you can see that too and you and he can work on those. Perhaps he doesn't like his mother (or his mother doesn't like him) and just assumes all mothers don't like him, for example.

I married my husband, who has no sisters, because of how he treated his mother, ex-wife, my mother, etc.; I could tell how he would treat me by how he thought about and treated the other women in his life.

It's another aspect of him, what he thinks about your mother (and she of him); maybe get to know that aspect better and what it says about him.
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