When He's Married to Mom: How to Help Mother-Enmeshed Men Open Their Hearts to True Love and Commitment

Because children have nowhere else to go and are dependent on their parents, they will often push out of consciousness any feelings of not being loved. The feelings erupt later when the adult is in therapy or struggling with self-esteem or relationship issues.

When a Nice Guy has been conditioned to be monogamous to his mother in childhood, his adult partner will know at some level that he is not really available.

Their unconscious need to remain monogamous to their mother ■They…

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"The need for protective love has a certain validity for the child, but if this attitude is maintained into adulthood, it is no longer valid. Since he does not cultivate the faculty of self-responsibility and independence, his need for love and his dependency can actually make the person helpless. He uses his entire psychic strength in order t