These musings come with the following disclaimer:

Information presented here is solely for women (unless otherwise noted) and maybe distributed to other interested girlfriends. Use of appropriate credit is requested. Not meant for the starry-eyes of incurable romantics. (I don’t want to be the one to tell them that Santa ain’t real). While I have made every effort to provide accurate and unbiased information, various facts maybe grossly exaggerated for attaining the right dramatic effect. Incidents described here are not fictional and definitely bear resemble to people alive.

The Golden boy syndrome

Having children definitely is a life changing experience, but why is it when certain women have sons change their entire personality? They acquire this arrogance of having accomplished some great deed not realizing it was just probability that favored them with a boy. They dote on their sons like they are the centre of the universe, and I am pretty sure if Copernicus were to publish De revolutionibus orbium coelestium now these mothers would strongly oppose his heliocentric theory. They believe their sons to be “golden” presumably because they have the Midas effect in their wombs. They raise their sons to be ALWAYS right and induce this strong unwavering belief that they cannot (and I mean simply CANNOT) err! These moms have strong, elastic umbilical cords that often navigate continents to ensure a tight grip on their sons. This vice like grip is often flexed to assert their power and to leave their daughter’s in law in no doubt where the actual authority lies. You think you are dealing with your husband not realizing he is just a mannequin in front of you mostly repeating well-rehearsed lines. Lines drilled and forced into memorization like the number tables or capitals of the world. Their arguments against your ideas are knee-jerk reactions of their mothers, when her knee hurts he kicks in reflex. Why then do these women encourage their sons to get married? Why not just like the queen bee make them drones? FYI- drones are hemizygous and only inherit maternal chromosomes :).

When you are newly married to a person afflicted with the “golden boy” syndrome ,you are often welcomed by their mothers with oozing sweetness, and you think to yourself, “hmmm… She is nice” and just before you finish that thought in your head you find yourself in a hyperglycemia induced comatose (welcome to reality honey- this is gonna hurt!) Once the sugary phase is over then comes the veiled barbs at you and your mother, ending with things like “ we do it differently in this house”. Next comes the “You are like my daughter” approach where they disguise their nosiness and interference with feelings of concern and want to “advice you for your own good”. Then comes the open invitation to duel, and that is when they bring out their secret weapon- “ I am so hurt!! Please protect me my darling son”. How is it that normal, educated, intelligent women turn into these manipulative smothering mothers and bullying mothers in law? At what point do they stop being women? (Well technically they still are but for some unfathomable reason they are mother’s of sons first and women later). When do we all grow up and learn to be adults and stop playing these absurd mind games? Despite all the so-called progression we still end up being treated the way women have been treated for centuries. Is it because we have moved so far ahead that these men and their mommies lag behind? Or is it an attitude change we need to bring about when we have not-so-golden sons, not to treat their wives such? Ladies I am hoping for you to share your thoughts and experiences on this matter, so please keep it pouring in …