Ladies, listen up! You can learn a lot about your new BF just by the type of relationship he has with his mother. Does he treat her with respect and call to make sure she's doing ok or does he barely make the time to check in on the woman who brought him into this world? If your man doesn't love his mama than that should be a big red flag. Take our quiz and find out if you're dating Mr. Right or Mr. Oh-So Wrong!


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I think that there is nothing wrong with a mama's boy, it just shows that the man knows how to treat a woman, but I do agree with you and the fact that you can't have your mom being the first thing in your life. When you are out of the house and you are dating and about to get married, it shouldn't be your mother first, even with everything that she has done for you. There is a line between caring and obsessed, and they have to learn that when you are about to get married or dating, it should be the woman first, not the mother because every girl wants to be loved by her man, but if they are way to busy giving their love to their mother than the woman will start to feel like she isn't worth anything, but stay with them because she loves him, and then she starts to think that this part of love is normal, but it is not, and its just not healthy. the man should love a mother, just not as much as those people are, its really not that healthy (as you said)
 
I took the quiz and I have a well balanced boyfiend which is what I thought! He does call his mom, mommy...which is really weird for me but I've learned to deal with it. I love him, and even though he calls his mom mommy, he still puts me first.
 
This is to Rachel, one of the guests on today's show: You're an attractive, well-spoken, nice woman and can easily find a man who will put you first. I know break-ups are incredibly difficult, especially after a 3 year investment, but 3 years is a whole lot shorter than the rest of your life. I've dated two Mama's boys in the past and I can tell you, without a shadow of a doubt, things will NOT change. They will NOT improve. Cut your losses now and move forward with your own life. That's what I did and now I'm happily married. Soon you'll find a good man who has real room in his life for you and you won't need to feel insecure or bargain for his time or constantly be made to feel small and unimportant. Your boyfriend has an unhealthy relationship with his Mom and he plainly told you nothing will change. Yes, he's being honest and I suppose that's something. Now you should be honest with yourself and accept that this path won't lead to happiness. You only have this one life. Be strong and free yourself up for the sort of love life you deserve!
 
I thought the show was great. I was engaged to (not sure that we are not engaged) a mamma's boy. He had surgery three weeks ago and decided to go stay at home with his mother to recover. Now he has been there three weeks, doesn't talk to me, left his belongings at my house. He had me over one night a week past the surgery and said in a week he would be ready to come home. Also, making plans for our future. Then I called a few days later and he hung up on me and said his mom would be over to get his stuff. No explanation - nothing. She just loves it because she was a horrible mother when he was a child so now he is so happy to have a mom in his life she abuses that to get her way. He is 30 years old and afraid to live a normal life because mom might get mad. How sick is that?
 
To indirectly suggest that these women leave the men that they love, is a little extreme, being someone who has an impression on the public eyes and ears, I just feel like you could have offered suggestions that would have been more comfortable and acceptable for everyone involved. (Love Your Show)
 
THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS SHOW!! It helps me not feel so alone. My husband is NOT a momma's boy, however, his mom is a son's momma! She refuses to treat me with respect. I am married to him, we have a baby, we have a home, we have our own lives. She treats me as though I am hindering him in becoming what SHE wants him to be and doesn't listen to him or try to get to know him to actually know what HE wants to do with HIS own life. She tells me how to take care of my son, she tells me how to take care of my husband, she is passive aggressive about it. She wants to force my son to be just like his daddy and refuses to acknowledge or see anything in him that may have come from me. Nothing I do is enough, so I've just given up. She talks so highly of my brother-in-law's wife, who does nothing around the house and drops her babies off with whoever so that they can go and get drunk EVERY night (no joke), but I'M a bad mother and wife. I wish she would just take one moment to get to know her son and get to know me and respect me and OUR family. She wants me to get a job and put our son in daycare, which I'm COMPLETELY against, because she's afraid that I'm forcing her poor little boy to work too hard...as if he shouldn't and as if I haven't worked full-time since I was 15 years old and am now 28. If I didn't want to burn the bridge with her, I'd ask to be on this show in a New York minute! She needs to be put in
 
Hello Tyra, I watch and enjoy your show quite often, but this one bothered me,because you gave me the impression that you've had to personaly deal with this type of situation and because of it, you seemed to be a little hard on the sons as well as the mothers, I'm not totally unsympathetic towards the girl freinds/fiances, but I've also seen cases where the girl freind/fiance likes to pull RANK and go on a power trip with their men with no respect or regards to the mothers, in fact i've had to deal with such cases, and it can be very trying, so if you're gonna air a show like this, I feel that it's only fair to show the flip side, because after all those are their mothers and a bond between a mother and their children is formed from the very beginning, and some women feel intimidated by that, so they make it very hard for the mother to accept them let alone like them
 
Today Show about being a mama's Boy. First of all, when a man get married, you and your wife become one. mother comes second. not first. The bible said the you become one flesh. So girls if you do not wish to be second in your man life, RUN. because later on you will be unhappy, seeing that he is putting his mother before you. I have three sons, and they pick their own wives. Do not miss understand, my sons love me very much. but their wife comes first. Now if this man has no intention of marriage, then the mother is also first. I'm a 68 year old woman, and mother. God Bless You Tyra, I love your show.
 
Hey Tyra! I love you and i wish i could meet you :) I think you should make an episode about friendships and who to trust and who to not trust. Because many teenagers go through hard time with their "best friends".
 
Any man who sleeps in his Momma's bed past the age of 5 is wrong. Agrown man wants to be with his Mommy over his child? I think this guy or any guy like this needs some help, and the Mothers that keep them dependant are pathetic and so insecure that they won't allow their child to gow up and be a normal Father and Husband, it is always Mommy does it better, it is bordering sicko and wacko behavior. I hope the women who are being used by these momma's boys will move on and find men not babies who know where babaies come from, make babies and then leave the babies to be helpless without a Father figure roll model to show them what a normal household should be with two loving parents. Move back with your mommy and I say stay there, women, don't ever date a Momma's boy, they are ill and so are their Momma's.
 
First of all who told Tyra Banks she was a relationship expert she is always trying to impose her beliefs(for the moment) on someone else. Tyra Banks has always screamed out how she and her mother are soooo close involving her in every aspect (what we see) of her life but here she is trying to look down and roll her eyes (literally, i saw her) at someone that has a relationship with their mother that some stray woman wants to break up.........I'm confused. It is so funny how strong family relationships are viewed as weird.....no no "unhealthy"- Tyra Banks what do you want, do you know, what's healthy, do you know that either? What I know to be true is that if a man meets a woman that CAPTURES his heart totally and completely he will focus on noone else not even his MOM. The women on the show must not be the women for them. I find it strange that these women are trying to tear their "boyfriends" away from their mothers. Ask yourself how many boyfriends have i had in my lifetime and what if they were ALL MAMA's BOYS....(as you call them), what kind of relationship would they have if they dropped their mothers every time they met a new girl. Lets get real here if a women is right for a guy she'll be right for the entire family and fit in from the start just like when you meet a new friend and everything clicks,.........your kids love them, your mother loves them, your pet loves them, every thing fits like a puzzle. We all have been in relationships some even marriages that were not right from the start and if these women want to break up a bond between a mother and her son
 
I am married to a man that always have to talk to his mom, where I feel that my kids and I do not matter. Everything she tells him he try to make it seems as though it is coming from him when I know is did not. We argue a a lot because he do not see that there is a problem. He tells them everything including his brother, but he uses his father as the one he really cares about. When he tells me that he is about to go back to work he get off the phone with me and calls them and talk for another 10 20 minutes . His mom talks about her sex life with him, and smokes weed with his older brother who by the way still stay at home. It is getting to the point where it is sicken I had to move out of state thinking that this would change but no, because it was like that back home. Do you think I am taking it to the extreme by being mad all the time.



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