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No. 1962046
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I love this thread idea anon. I'll start
No. 1962108
The OP seems to be for boymoms who simply hate other women and want an excuse to act out their misogyny but
>>1962046 reads as someone with a barely-hidden incest attraction to her son.
No. 1962423
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>This boy will forever and always have my entire heart. Gina captured the end of this moment, and I’m SO grateful. When I walked up to hug my baby boy after his game, he immediately picked me up and just held me. It may have been 20 seconds, 30 seconds, a minute, I have no idea. But in this moment, time stood completely still. I honestly don’t know what I did to deserve you @brix_wright but I am thankful every second of every single day for you.
damn… she could've hugged him without doing all that
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I unironically would actually consider most of this abuse, because it's very obvious this is just emotional incest that's going to cause a lot of fucked-up issues to overcome for these kids.
No. 1962519
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>>1962518I don't even get it, having a son sounds way more scary since they could murder you or become a school shooter. Meanwhile mother daughter bonds are so precious without the emotional incest quality.
No. 1962527
>>1962520I meant the woman in the OP post, not OP herself, who just seems to hate other women and uses her son as a means to lash out at them, as compared to the other woman who "merely" (lol) has an incestual attachment to her son.
>>1962501Why is a man narrating this? It must be fetish material.
No. 1962528
>>1962518I'm facebook friends with one of my high school teachers and it is literally so insane how she posts about her scroteling vs her daughter. She will constantly post about her son's boy scout achievements, reposts corny emotional "it HURTS seeing him grow up!!!" boy mom posts, the "I'm his first love" posts, and compare that to her measly posts about her daughter who she publicly announced had to change schools because she was being bullied… it's "literally my mini me wow", "if anyone wants to buy her girl scout cookies please do".
Like it's a clear lack of emotional connection with her daughter and the weird over-emotional connection with her son, who has told his mother to STOP posting so many pictures of him on her facebook… to which she made a post about it and included pictures of him. It's just so fucking weird. Especially since I know she was sexually abused by her stepfather. So many women who are failed bh scrotes go on to put their sons on pedestals and ignore their daughters who remind them too much of themselves. It's so fucking sad.
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>>1962018my nigel had a "boymom" mother and if the scrote isn't the usual lazy psychopath it will be immensely fucked up for them too, here's some of the shit that transpired:
>nigel wasn't allowed to bring girls home, only male friends, as a small child (not that as a teen it was any better)>wouldn't let nigel get his drivers license and insisted on driving him everywhere, nigel had to borrow a friend's car and learn how to drive in secret.>sabotaged his chance to go to a fancy private school because self-admitedly didn't want him to live in the dorms one hour away from home,>neglected nigel's mildly retarded sister, nigel had to testify in court for their dad to get full custody of retard-chanhe went completely zero contact after he hit 18 and refuses to speak to her in any capacity, he's afraid if he she ever got word he's married she would try to hurt me lol
No. 1962567
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Can we talk about demented shit like picrel too, this is like endgame for them
>About Us
>Mothers of Sons is a group of ordinary women whose sons have faced extraordinary ordeals in our unjust, anti-male legal systems and workplaces.
>MOS offers advice and support for other mothers and fights for fair treatment for all.
>Our sons have fought mighty battles for justice in family, magistrates and other criminal courts that no longer offer men fair treatment.
>Women need no evidence to make accusations of violence or sexual abuse that deprive men of their children, their homes, careers, and futures.
>Some of us have spent our life savings protecting sons from false sexual assault allegations, paying a huge mental and financial toll to prove the charges had no substance.
>Other sons are experiencing discrimination in the workplace or in educational institutions where advancement can be based on gender rather than merit. Some face #MeToo accusations, where unproven allegations can undermine a lifetime’s achievement and cause loss of career and reputation.
>Some of our sons are victims, physically and emotionally abused by their partners – yet they are offered no protection or support and are often disbelieved.
>Mothers of Sons plans to make a difference by:
>gathering wisdom from mothers who have fought to protect their sons
>sharing hard-won lessons learnt from these terrible experiences
>using this website to share our stories and expose what is happening to men and boys in this country
>allowing mothers whose sons are in trouble to use our private forums to learn from women who have fought similar battles
>bringing together powerful women to fight for a fairer world for men and boys.
No. 1962914
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What do you think of Sue Klebold? Does she count as a cringe boymom?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Klebold No. 1962972
>>1962896I'm pregnant with my first child and he's a boy, you best believe I won't be like these weirdo mothers who act like they're competing with their sons love interest.. jumping into his arms with my legs around his waist like that other deranged mother.
I feel like alot of these women don't have a male love interest themselves so they project it into their sons and put the sons in the position to be their emotional outlet in that way. It goes beyond normal motherly love, it's not a healthy relationship to have for either of them and most of the time the son is raised to think it's fine when it's not.
No. 1962975
>>1962946My exs mother was the same, only child, even his friends said they think his mother wants to fuck them. She treated me really poorly and was a decent chunk of why I left him.
He was well into adulthood but she had access to his bank account, would move money around and take money out, had notifications on her phone to see what the would buy. He bought something and she called him 3 minutes later asking for an explanation. This was to a 22 year old man.
I was visiting and we were going away for a few days so he was using my bag to put his things in, she went through it and repacked his stuff, changed his shirts etc, would have has to touch my underwear and dildo to move then around the bag.
She would go through his bedside bin to check for condoms, i set a trap to see if she would by leaving an empty coke can in the bin at the bottom, went for a shower and checked and the can was gone.
There's so much more, I'm so glad she's not my problem anymore
No. 1962987
>>1962896It's not called the pickme to boymom timeline for nothing, all of these women are former hardcore pickmes, who dated the worst moids and allowed them to treat them like shit and now they cope and try to compensate by finally getting to enjoy "real love" with their sons. So many of them even somewhat admit to this, already anticipating how well they will be treated by their future son while they're still pregnant, saying shit like "Nobody will be able to love you like a son!" and so on.
I honestly don't give af that this is supposedly
abusive/emotional incest towards the sons because in 99% of the cases it simply means he will get treated like a spoiled prince by his mom for all his life (which moids enjoy) but my heart breaks for the daughters trapped in this mess.
No. 1963011
>>1963004A shit ton of anons talk about their bfs or husbands ever since I've been on lc in 2015 or 2016, and even the mentally fucked up ones would regularly post shit like
>I'm a loser hikineet with 10 mental illnesses and I take xanax, I don't know how to make friends or how to get a job? My boyfriend is helping me for literally everything but I want to have a social life besides himas if meeting a guy who's good enough to be a bf isn't more difficult than having regular friends.
No. 1963116
Why could I not think of starting this thread kek
>>1962523That’s disgusting anon. Hope you’re at least gone low contact with them. I feel sorry for your brothers’ girlfriends already
No. 1963122
>>1962567I can only imagine the private discussions:
“He only slapped her twice! It’s not like he gave her a black eye, she’s exaggerating these abuse accusations!”
“That 17 year old jezebel is the one who took advantage of my son!” (Her sweet baby boy is 42)
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No. 1963591
>>1962914No, she never defended him and admitted that he did horrific things. No actual boymom would do that.
>>1962935I think bad parenting, and especially bad parenting stemming from the parent's unmet emotional needs, expresses itself in different ways. Boymoms happen when a woman engages in emotional incest with her son because she effectively trapped one male to keep as her own, one who will depend on her and love her for decades until the moment he wises up, if he ever does. But there are men who do this with daughters and, less often, women who do it with daughters. For some reason though, we have culturally accepted boymoms and father's with strange attachments to their daughters as sweet and normal and seem to ignore the other variants of displaced parental affection/obsession.
>>1962949She also attacked and defaced Junko's grave, iirc.
No. 1963651
>>1963591>But there are men who do this with daughters and, less often, women who do it with daughters. For some reason though, we have culturally accepted boymoms and father's with strange attachments to their daughters as sweet and normalThis does make sense tho, a father is supposed to ward off and protect his daughter from trash moids. But nowadays this has gotten more rare and many "dads" no longer give af that their daughters get with
abusive hobos.
Those mothers however trying to "protect" moids from women…that's an absurd world.
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so this is extremely random, but I recently read Crystal Hefner's biography (I keep meaning to post about it in the book thread but I haven't yet). At one point she leaves Hef and dates Dr Phil's son, Jordan. Jordan ended up being toxic and cluster B (like love bombing her with $10k worth of roses at the beginning of their relationship, courtesy of his dad's black amex card).
But anyway it turns out Robin is a total overbearing boymom. Like when Crystal got a huge surprise for him on his birthday his mom told him and spoiled the surprise. She constantly did shit to sabotage their relationship and Crystal saw a bunch of emails from Robin to Jordan about how he needed to break up with her and even offered to do it for him.
Why am I not surprised kek
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This woman is really scary.
No. 1965079
>>1965075>"I was his first love"what is she fucking him too then? because nobody is THIS possessive over someone else without wanting to fuck them. she's talking about her son like he
cheated on her.
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>>1965083Just goes to show that boymoms are some of the biggest narcs. They do emotional incest with their sons because they think their sons (their own children) need to sacrifice, carry weight, and act like substitute husbands for THEM. They hate women that date their sons, because they think their sons' lives should only revolve around THEM. They're even known to seethe when their sons bring home a girl that's too "different", because the boymoms think any woman the sons marry should be exactly like THEM. They pamper their sons or avoid teaching them about chores and responsibilities because they want their sons to always depend on THEM. Boymoms are wildly narcissistic, it's actually scary.
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So I'm guessing she must have said something like 'I love you despite your flaws', which makes his mom flip out saying that he doesn't have any flaws, even though this moid is CLEARLY flawed, not only because he's bald, but also because he just stood there like a retard while his mother was destroying his wedding.
No. 1965189
>>1965186I hope she becomes a
TERF soon.
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>i just know that X is going to have to go through all kinds of fucked up paul-type shit
i wonder what she’s planning on doing to him jfc
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No. 1965335
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This made me feel so much embarrassment. She's also wearing white. I remember reading posts about MILs wearing wedding dresses to their sons wedding. It's so weird.
No. 1965373
>>1965113there's a big difference between a
toxic partner and your actual mom, even is she was literally the worst cutting contact with her would give you cold shoulders with your entire family.
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Video of Chris Watt's mother speaking to him in prison, saying how she doesn't care what he's done. This scrote literally murdered her grandchildren and she still fawns over him. These boy moms are so unhinged and I genuinely wonder what it would take for them to go no contact.
No. 1965389
>>1965266Kek, i agree, she talks with a "blaccent". It is what it is.
>>1965075And she is going to wonder why her son never wants to see her once he gets married i bet.
No. 1965400
>>1965387This behaviour is so common of mothers of sons who commit atrocities. I don't think every woman who defends their son from their crimes do it because they are a boy mom all the time though, in some cases it's because they want to take the opportunity to brush over the fact that they probably neglected their son or was
abusive in other ways. You can tell it's the boy mom mentality when they constantly appeal their sons sentence, are practically begging on their knees in court. video related is a woman claiming that her son is innocent of murder and kidnapping, despite already been convicted, because of the way she raised him, classic boy mom line.
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Poor OP I would have loved to eat her cooking.
No. 1965983
>>1965535>Gets taken in by son and lovely daughter in law >complains about smell>Throws all of their food outWhy are men so fucking gutless. Stand up for your fucking wife against your putrid mother holy fuck!
This made me seethe a little bit, I couldnt imagine staying with such a limp cock wimpy man.
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>A grown woman forbidding her 11 year old son from comforting his 5 year old sister, insisting that it would condition him to cater to a "white woman's tears"
No. 1966211
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Avery Woods, TikTok 'momTok' influencer who gained almost 2 million followers in a short space of time due to making videos exploiting her toddler-age daughter by having her in compromising positions and inappropriate outfits.
>Avery Woods went under fire after releasing vidrel (which has since been deleted and reuploaded to censor the child) explaining how she loves her son more than her daughter, in an extremely creepy way.>Other commenters have noted that in her main profile, the subject of the videos are always her daughter, and almost never her son. She would do these weird voiceovers over the videos of her daughter (in a POV like style pretending to be her inner voice) about how fat she is, having to squeeze her fat into a swimming costume and stuffing her 'cankles' into her shoes. Bearing in mind, her daughter would have been an infant.>Many of these videos of her daughter were her in inappropriate outfits that would have several thousands to hundreds of thousands of saves, when other users investigated who would be saving them, a lot of them were grown men and adult content accounts.>Since blowing up from the controversial video in vidrel, she has deleted all of the other fucked up shit and has since made a new account that is much less active. https://www.tiktok.com/@averywood2024Boymoms in a nutshell. They will make pedo content by exploiting their daughters to make themselves wealthy while protecting their sons from the same fate.
No. 1966308
>>1966293She's probably going for the same response from a similar audience but I think this has to be rage bait. It's absolutely insane to stop a boy from helping his sister and referring to her crying child as crying "white woman tears" and describing her as having "violence in her heart" for being an upset child. It has to be fake.
>>1966211She however is probably an evil misogynist who wants to exploit her innocent daughter to pedos online and bask in her son's attention because she's a psychopath.
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>Be me, 20 y/o with first ever 'proper' relationship.
>Go on date with Nigel for valentine's day in a shitty chain restaurant.
>Nice night, general romance shit.
>Nigel's mother walks in out of the blue while we're having dessert and sits down at our table.
>We're both like wtf. I look at him as if to say "Nigel, do something!!"
>He does nothing and we're just listening to her ramble on about her day.
>Offers us a lift home.
>I have a nice romantic evening planned back at mine, candles and all that shit.
>She drops me off and says "Ok anon, say good night to Nigel! He has an early night tonight!"
>I look at him with the most bewildered look which turns into utter contempt as he continues to do nothing.
>Spend the night by myself with all the candles on wondering where I went wrong in life.
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Kek.
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>>1966226I think you may be right nona kek
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So moms prefer having boys because they like the smell of their farts???
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>>1967800nta I haven't watched the series(nor do I want too) but a lot of dictators have very similar background of growing up around the lower end of middle class, having physically
abusive fathers and religious mothers whom they would have close relationships with. Hitler, Stalin, Saddam, Mao, Mussolini, Franco e.t.c
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it brings me much satisfaction to know that many misogynistic pick-me boymoms who believe little girls are inferior end up eating their words (even if they'll never admit it) when their sons grow up and cause them nothing but endless trouble. they spend the rest of their lives cleaning up their retarded son's messes because they raised him to believe he could do whatever he wanted and he became a spoiled selfish moid with authority issues and zero compassion. i hope the relief of not being cursed with the terrible misfortune of having a daughter brings them some comfort when they aren't able to save a penny for their own retirement because they're constantly paying for their scroteling's legal bills or otherwise having to support him financially, meanwhile he'll stick them in the cheapest nursing home he can find once they become elderly (assuming he isn't incarcerated or dead as a result of his lack of impulse control) or steal their social security check for himself while leaving them to slowly fester and starve in their own homes.
No. 1972604
>>1972580Exactly. The same way they will posture over how important Mom is, then use "family first" as justification to treat a gf or wife like shit. And eventually you get:
>"I could never love you as much as I love my mom."The wonderful statement that has left a million women speechless and bewildered. I guarantee that no man who treated his wife halfway decent ever uttered those words.
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I know this is probably satire but they really are like this when you're dating their sons kek.
No. 1976069
>>1975464OFC she's worried about what some literally poor, disadvantaged girl will do to her son's school work, and not that her scrotelet could knock up a girl with no resources and totally destroy her life before it even started.
>>1975949I recently overheard a boomer I know kvetching about how her stepson's girlfriend isn't good enough because she's only getting a community college degree, BUT I also know her stepson has a zero college degree and works entry level jobs. We can really never be good enough.
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>>1967811maybe she’s referring to male/female socialization. a dude will fart and laugh about it (i feel him saying it smelled wonderful was just a joke), girls will react as she said
No. 1981267
>>1962519Unfortunately, you can get adjacent codependencies from mother-daughter relationships, too, if there aren't proper boundaries. That being said, I don't see the attitude being promoted the same way "boymomming" is. The insistence on NORMALIZING the lack of boundaries is very different, and is a new layer of nauseating. This is how you get moids who expect their spouses to be bangmaids and let their family walk all over them. Unrelated, that picture is so cute and precious!
>>1972631Honestly, good on you nonna. Sucks about your mom, but hopefully your brother realizes what you did for him and appreciates it.
>>1981194I've seen this a lot with narc parents. I imagine it's boymom adjacent, but can be done with either gender and by either parent. I think the ostracization sets up for an easy scapegoat in a
toxic family dynamic.
No. 1982106
>>1981194my best friend's mother is exactly like that. coddled the shit out of her eldest son, paid his rent and vidya and everything, never disapproved of anything he did. and he ended up a basement dwelling weed addict with no qualifications past middle school, who can't keep a job and had a kid with a literal schizo. he was alwo a borderline
abusive to my friend growing and i had to slap his shit a few times to keep him in line (last i checked he was still afraid of me lmao)
meanwhile my friend got yelled at if he got a b+ and they dumped him with my family nearly every holiday.
then she and the dad went all surprised pikachu when my friend packed it all up at 19 to go live in another country and never looked back.
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Allow me to introduce the queen of boymoms and emotional incest, Alicia Silverstone
>During an appearance on "The Ellen Fisher Podcast," the 45-year-old actress shared a few details about her attachment parenting style and revealed that "Bear and I still sleep together."
>The "Clueless" star shares her 11-year-old with her ex-husband Christopher Jarecki, and joked that she would "get in trouble for" her comments by critics. "I don't really care," Silverstone laughed off any possible judgements.
>Bear and I still sleep together," she said, noting that she is just "following nature" with her parenting style.
>"If you were in any kind of wild setting where there are animals … if you put your baby over there," she said, pointing away from herself, "your baby is going to get eaten. It's not ideal for the baby to be over there."
>The actress also explained the "elimination communication" parenting tactics she would employ when raising Bear, and shared that she would rarely use diapers when teaching her son to potty train as a toddler. Instead of diapers, Silverstone would "watch his cues" to know when he would need to use the restroom.
>"There was a period of time where I was watching him naked and watching the cues," Alicia continued. "The cues part for me was really fun because I thought that he was flirting with me because he would do this little smile. That's when he had to pee."
>Silverstone also explained why she didn't end up having additional kids, sharing that she wanted to "savor every moment" of Bear's life first.
>"I wanted to have more [kids], but then my relationship got messed up, and it wasn't a great time to bring one in," she said. "I didn't want to have one right away because I was so in love with my Bear." "I wanted to squeeze every little moment out of him, so it wasn't until he was like 3 that I was ready to make another baby and then I didn't have a partner, so that's why I don't have four babies."
>In November 2020, The actress revealed that Bear cut his long hair.
>"My baby's growing up (crying emoji)(broken heart emoji) I miss his hair!!!!! Was it his decision? Yes. Did I cry inside as I watched him get it cut? Maybe … but did I try to stop him? Not for one second," she shared in an Instagram caption.
>"The reason he chose to keep it for as long as he did was because he loved it so much!!!" she continued. "He just wanted to try something new. Although I have a feeling he'll find a way back to his long hair again in the future. No matter what though, I will always support my sweet, caring, and precious little boy in every decision he makes. (heart emoji)(smiling with Hears emoji)"
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>>1986470she breastfed him until he was 9 and he has not been vaccinated and according to her has never been on medication in his life
>“He’s never had to take medicine in his life,” she told Page Six of her 7-year-old son, Bear, on Thursday. “He can get sniffles and a runny nose but he’s not down, he still goes to school. Two times in his life has he been like ‘Mommy I don’t feel good,’ and it was only for a few hours and he was back running around.”they also took baths together with her till he was 10
>The Clueless star has revealed she and her son Bear have been soaking up some quality time together with shared baths during the lockdown measures imposed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. And the actress has claimed that they find the activity ‘nourishing and comforting’. Silverstone explained: ‘My son and I take baths together, and when he’s not with me, I take a bath and that really feels nourishing and comforting.’>Alicia – who has Bear with her ex-husband Christopher Jarecki – also said she and her tot have been doing other activities together, including dancing, bouncing on the trampoline and jumping rope. And the duo are focusing on maintaining their vegan diet, as the 43-year-old actress says her mental health is affected by her eating habits>She added: ‘I always bring everything back to diet. When I don’t eat well, I don’t feel well, and then my moods go all over the place.’ Alicia says she turns to fresh herbs, greens, miso soup and ginger tea to keep her body healthy, and for her mental and physical health she takes daily long walks, practices yoga and meditation, and keeps a journal No. 1986477
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>>1986474Her repeatedly kissing her son
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>>1986477also whatever this is supposed to be
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>>1986623This was discussed on her thread and it's a reach but she played a role in a movie which involved a romance between the 18 year old main character and her character(who was recently divorced) The main character is a young man who has spent his entire life living as a survivalist in the woods, He's essentially the idealized version of what she likely wants her son to be (and he even looks a bit like him).