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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s so much debate on this forum of what’s “normal” for an adult male and his mom and so much annoyance over dh/mil relationships. I’m just curious what you as a current mom of boys (kids) hope for someday with your son

I have 3 which I think in some ways help not put all my need for familial connection on one child

I hope we have regular text exchanges of news, memes, updates etc - not a daily “how was your day” exchange but also not a once a month phone call and that’s it

I hope they want to visit me once a year and welcome a couple short visits from me a year

I hope we do a couple multigen trips if they have grandkids

I’d love to share my hiking / outdoors hobby with one but don’t know I’ll be that lucky.  A woman I know went on hiking trips with her two boys into her 70s - when they were single and when they were married (with their spouses also) who were all excited to get taken to the exotic places she wanted to hike (my husband has no interest in hiking - he’d be invited of course if he was interested).

I hope if they marry, I’m friendly with their spouses but am no way looking for a “daughter” or want to transfer my relationship with their fam over to her

All of this is similar to what I have with my mom minus the random girls weekends which for whatever reason do feel bizarre to me to do with a son [/quote]

I'm happy I have girls. Not bc I would not love a son. But seeing all of my friends' sons and how they are with girlfriends (not even fiancees) has really been shocking. This is not a statistically sound sample, and obviously anecdotal, but the girlfriends control everything. The GF parents are treated like queens by the boys, and the reverse is not true. It's been really shocking to see. [/quote]

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