The absolute worst mothers are the ones who do everything for their children, and then their kids never really grow up. Moms like this do it for a few reasons: they might be afraid of the kid going off on their own and leaving them behind, they might feel like they are a "bad mother" if they let the kid do anything on their own so they sacrifice the child's emotional growth to avoid feeling guilty, they might have a pathological anxiety about their child being hurt and sacrifice the kid's growth to soothe their own anxiety issue, etc. It is a massive pathology that is difficult to overcome, the mother does everything in her power to prevent their child from overcoming it. This type of mother punishes her child when they show healthy independence, and rewards them for maladaptive dependence. The sons that don't end up resentful have a real twisted reverence for their mothers, like they are saints for making them unable to function in the real world. I would be totally unsurprised if lowtax's mom was one of these, part of why I think so is because he is so eager for a woman to take on total responsibility for everything in his life, and that may be because he is basing his expectations of women on his mom. Women fuck their kids up in this way because it is so hard to criticize on the surface level, they can dress everything they do up as being "caring" or "concern", but it isn't. Its cowardice so powerful that they would ruin their child's life for selfish reasons. I find it deplorable.