Does your husband compare you to his mom?

United States
June 12, 2007 10:59pm CST
Some guys just just refuse to grow up. They're perpetual Peter Pan boys. And, growing up with a mommy that dotes on them and cherishes their every whim, only feeds this need. And, you never think you're going to end up with a Mama's boy, until he slips the ring on your finger. I was watching Everyone Loves Raymond earlier and I saw how attached he was to his mom. I know that the show is just an exaggeration of life. It's not real. But, there are guys who really do compare every woman they meet to thier moms. Oh, she did things this way. Or, that's not how my mom did it. Or, my mom cooked way better than you! Does your husband compare you to his mom? Does it drive you nuts?
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17 responses
@muscare (3068)
• Australia
13 Jun 07
Can I answer this one as a husband? I can honestly say that I was never one that wanted to 'marry my mother'! Geez, living with her the whole time I grew up was bad enough. Now, don't get me wrong, I love my mum to bits, but she has qualities I would definitely not like to see in my wife. I love my wife for who she is, too, and probably because she is not like my mother!
@abrarr (1246)
• Pakistan
13 Jun 07
well though i'm not married and i have no experience btu still i think taht if he do then he is rite, and its his rite!!!
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@apsara60 (6610)
• Israel
14 Jun 07
After 10 years of your marriage your thinking will change. Remember me then.........lol.
@psyche49f (2502)
• Philippines
13 Jun 07
Never...because if he did, or does, I'll return him quickly to his mom! LOL! Really, some men, er boys never grow up and still cling on to their mom's aprons. So when they meet a girl they always compare her with his mom. Can she cook like mom? Is she a good housekeeper? Is her favorite TV program just like mom's? Oh, he is a hopeless boy trapped in a man's body. I'm sure ladies wouldn't like their man to compare every hair color, lipstick, favorite food, etc. to their mom's standards. So hey ladies, everytime your man compares you with his mom, tell him he's nuts and that he better go home because his mom is looking for him....even if he's 28 or 32 years old!
@huilee (1005)
• Singapore
13 Jun 07
Well, for me.. It hasnt happened.... But i think in time to come, my bf will... As in, right now... Hes always complaining... But its more on complaining bout his mum and praises on me... But i feel that if it were to continue, tension might happened... As in, im sure his mum will be unhappy too... But if it were praises for his mum and saying bad things and complaining bout me... I wouldnt be able to take it either... Contradicting ya... But i guess it does happenes... After all, people loves to be praised... Agree?
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@Gorgeous24 (1091)
• United States
13 Jun 07
Heck No he doesnt compare me to his mother...Honestly I dont think I could be with a guy who still had the ambillical cord still still attached to his mother. I mean when your with a guy they dont need to be comapring you to their mother..Ughhh! that would piss me off..I dont care how good of a mother she is dont compare me.
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@shemah (840)
• Malaysia
13 Jun 07
oh my! I did marry a momma's boy! but he has the decency to never ever compare me to her. if he did, he'll be sleeping by the fish pond every time he did. haha.
@sarah22 (3979)
• United States
13 Jun 07
no and if he did he better make sure he can run
@mgmagana (3618)
• United States
14 Jun 07
no way, my husband can not stand his mom, he's actually spoiled by my mom and step dad, and the funny thing is, is he makes comparisons to me and my mom. I'm glad for my husband that he has a family he can lean on and that's my family. get this his younger brother is the only one from his family that went to our wedding. so my family mixed themselves up and sat on both sides.
@limosonia1 (1559)
• United States
13 Jun 07
Believe me when I say it is real although my husband doesn't fo this thankfully. His brother is waited on hand and foot by his mother to the point that in his mid forties he still lives at home and mommy cuts up his food. It is disgusting in more ways than one. I am unsure of how he is going to survive if anything ever happens to her. Everytime he comes to visit without her those are the first words out of his mouth well my mom would get me that. I always look at him and say well I am not your mother nor to I wait on my 7 year old that way. You want it you go get it then he gets mad and usually leaves. Oh well I am nobodys maid,
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@nuttmeg (440)
• United States
14 Jun 07
The main reason I divorced my ex, had to do with him being an complete and utter Momma's Boy and because she was--*cough* a controlling, neurotic witch who was out to split us apart from day one. I can't remember a time when he verbally compared me to her (we're absolutely nothing alike, thank god), but I did notice that I was somewhat put into the Mom role of reminding him to pay his bills or going through the task for him, once he signed the check, and on and on. No thanks! PS - Great to see someone else using Peter Pan boys haha. It's so fitting.
@TriciaW (2441)
• United States
13 Jun 07
Oh yes. The mommies boy. Mine is so bad that everyone teases him about it. His mom does everything for him. We were our daughter's ball game the other night and she was there. The coach came up and asked him to umpire the bases because the boys game was lasting too long and the other ump was over there. Now he knew that none of the other dad's were there yet so I was shocked when he said no. After the coach left I asked him why because he has the experience and no other dad's were there to help out. He said ok I will do it. Which wasn't the answer to my question but hey he wasn't the dad having to coach the girls*L* His mother said to me.. oh I hate when he has to stand out in the sun like that it just isn't good for him. Well it was the wrong day to say it and I turned to him and said well I have no sympathy because he was out in the sun all weekend with this buddies drinking so a little time for his daughter's team won't kill him. I know it sounds harsh of me but I myself have umped for the guys games because they needed one on the bases and it isn't that hard with the girls they are only 12 years old so it isn't like pros. His mom didn't say anything after that but I have learned that at times I have to just say it like it is cause I swear she would wash his face for him if he asked her too. Heck one weekend we went out of town for the day and came home and she had mowed our lawn cause she said she didn't want him he to have to do it on his day off. I am the one that mows the lawn!!!! As you can see by my rambling it drives me nuts!*L*
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@brand4less (1061)
• Indonesia
14 Jun 07
my husband never compares me w/his mother,but i have an ex bf who did it.he was 29 yrs old when we had r/ship and he still eat dinner in his mom's (he lives in another apt),his mom did his laudry,cut his hair,etc and he compared me becoz i wasn't patience as his mom,i refused to do his laundry and i couldn't cook well.he drives me nut even until now(he still wants to back).i'm so lucky i don't end up as his wife.
@dentidle (293)
• Switzerland
14 Jun 07
No he does not..verbally...But i think he might compare us silently and keep it to himself. His mother is a great cook. Atleast in that case, he might want me to be like her. He hasn't said a word thou. So I try to do my best in cooking.
@shan_ab (377)
• India
13 Jun 07
Sometimes yes, but it is very rare.. Whenever he has done it, it has something to do with the taste of teh food that me and his mother prepares.. He tells that I use less oil and so food is less tasty.. Otherwise, no comparisons.. and I am fine with this
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@Marie2473 (8512)
• Sweden
13 Jun 07
My bf did this ones and I got so angry that I doubt that he will ever do it again =9 I do not compare him to my father or my brother and I do not want him to do that to me. I wil never be like his mom and it is important that he knows that =)
• Canada
13 Jun 07
My husband was doted on my his mother but he never compares me to her at all . We are nothing alike and I love having her as a mother in law . There are some things she can do better then me and there are some things I can do better then her but my husband never says that his mother can do anything better or worse . He is not one for comparing people at all . His mom sticks up for him all the time but does not get in the middle of anything at all and will say she is not choosing sides if she were asked to pick one .
@mari_skye (1637)
• Philippines
13 Jun 07
I am yet to get married, but I dread this thing to ever happen to me. Thinking of it is already driving me nuts! LOL! Hah! If I ever hear a word from my future husband comparing me to his mom, he is going to hear a lot from me in return, hahahahha....