[Kyle09999]

Hello to all, what are the behavioral signs & traits of an adult man who never truly made the emotional separation from his mother? In what is he specifically different? In what behavior?

It's kind of hard to say your not giving much info. on your man ?
When she calls him dose he stop everything he is doing and runs to her aid ?
Dose his mother control his life ?

[Crazy Hitch]

Hi Kyle

That's a hard one for me to answer as I'm sort of thinking it could really represent itself in so many different ways.

And I'm also thinking of the age old saying - it takes two to tango - so im alluding to the fact that if he is not separated emotionally from his mother - what is the mother doing to enable this behavior?

And then there's the thing that I've always thought. If you want to know how a man will treat you in a relationship look at how he treats his mother (barring dysfunctional mothers).

Years ago it was hard for me to watch my husbands interaction (at the time he was just my boyfriend) with his mother because they are extremely close and I wasn't used to that.

[hvert]

Here are just a few things that might suggest a problem to me, thinking about behaviors I've observed in people who have this problem. Any one of these probably isn't a problem, but if someone is doing a few, I would kind of keep my eyes open. I think these apply to men or women:

1. Seeks mother's opinion about choices he should make on his own or with his partner.
2. Does what his mother tells him.
3. Lives with his mother as an adult.
4. Lets his mother take care of him (food, laundry, pay bills, etc.)
5. Goes out with his mother more often than friends (this may apply to females more)
6. Difficulty dating due to relationship with mother