Dear Angie:

No surprise he caved in to his mother’s pressure because a mother is very powerful in a boy’s (and girl’s) life and often enough it doesn’t change much as the boy becomes a man. And then there is the societal pressure: obey your mother/ parents. You owe your parents. The attachment to one’s mother and emotional loyalty and guilt are all matters of the heart.

Sounds like you still have a difficulty understanding what happened, his motivations… what is it that is so unclear still to you?

anita