{"id":34985,"date":"2021-05-16T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=34985"},"modified":"2021-09-12T09:54:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T13:54:57","slug":"dating-a-mamas-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/dating-a-mamas-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Dating a Mama&#8217;s Boy: Stop Enabling Him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Are you dating a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/codependenr-mother-and-son-relationship\/\">mama&#8217;s boy<\/a>? Do you want to know how to make your man prioritize you over his mother? How can you learn to set boundries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Steve Harvey, if you are dating a mama&#8217;s boy, you are the culprit, not him. Harvey explains that a man&#8217;s mother is his first love and it&#8217;s where he learned his rules and principles and is the most comfortable. However, that does not mean he is unable to change with the right push.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading to learn how to navigate dating a mama&#8217;s boy with Steve Harvey&#8217;s advice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Other Woman\u2014His Mother<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Every now and then, you\u2019ll come across a man who is considered a \u201cmama\u2019s boy.\u201d The signs that you&#8217;re dating a mama\u2019s boy are obvious:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>He drops everything to do whatever his mother asks of him.<\/li><li>He never stands up to his mother.&nbsp;<\/li><li>He puts his mother in front of his responsibilities to his own family.<\/li><li>He allows his mother to call the shots in his relationships.<\/li><li>He spends more time at his mother\u2019s house than in your bed.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s easy to identify a mama\u2019s boy, but it\u2019s hard to know what to do if you&#8217;re dating one. <strong>If you want to regain your man\u2019s attention and keep him more focused on you than his mother, you need to understand why he\u2019s a mama\u2019s boy to begin with.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may want to blame the mother for not giving her son the freedom to be a man. You might assume his mother doesn\u2019t like you or thinks you\u2019re incapable of making her son happy. You may believe your man is immature and likes being babied. The list goes on, but none of these excuses is the culprit for your man\u2019s issues. Steve Harvey says the culprit is you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>His First Love<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A mother is the first woman to hold a significant place in your man\u2019s heart. She\u2019s known him all his life and raised him under a certain set of rules and principles. She set her expectations for his behavior, and because he loved his mother, he followed them to make her happy. He also knew that there would be consequences if he didn\u2019t follow her standards. And he also wanted to be a good man in her life.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may think your man would automatically cut the cord linking him to his mother when he grew up, but you\u2019re wrong. <strong>By the time your man is grown, he\u2019s been living under the umbrella of his mother\u2019s standards for so long, they\u2019re second nature. <\/strong>He\u2019s clear about who she expects him to be, and loving her is easy because he understands his role in the relationship. His love for her means he respects her and wants to protect and provide for her.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, your man should be able to flip the switch and treat his woman with the same love, respect, and protection, and he would if he knew how. A man knows that he can\u2019t and shouldn\u2019t remain a little boy in love with his mother. He\u2019s not unwilling to adjust his attitude and put the love of a good woman in front of the love for his mother. But until you tell him that\u2019s what you need for him to do, he won\u2019t.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Your Silence Is the Glue Between Your Man and His Mother<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Your man wants to do right by you, but you have to tell him what doing right by you means.<\/strong> He\u2019s not a mind reader. He wants to love you and love his mother, and if you are silent about your dissatisfaction with her role in his life, he won\u2019t know there\u2019s a problem. Your man needs to know what <em>your<\/em> standards are so he can follow <em>them<\/em>, not his mother\u2019s.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you become serious with a man, you must tell him that you expect him to respect you and your wishes, put your needs ahead of those of others, put your family\u2019s needs ahead of anything else, and make sure the people in his life know that these are his priorities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re with a mama\u2019s boy, you may be afraid to say something and rock the boat. You fear he will choose her over you, that you\u2019ll anger her and ruin your relationship, or that you\u2019ll never be able to compete with her. 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Your love is different from her love, and he knows that.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Believe that loving his mother makes him capable of loving properly.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Recognize that you\u2019re not going to separate your man from his mother.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Accept that your lack of standards makes him free to follow hers.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Control what you can\u2014the expectations you set for your relationship.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Let your man know you respect his mother, but he needs to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/when-to-say-no\/\">set boundaries<\/a> for her influence in his life.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Tell his mother how well your man protects and provides for you because of the standards she set for him.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you dating a mama&#8217;s boy? Do you want to know how to make your man prioritize you over his mother? How can you learn to set boundries? 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