Did you guys see how similar Mary and Brandon’s mother are?

I also think Mary has a little bit of hospitality like trying to work on their relationship but his mom is psychotic and in recovery for addiction and that makes sense why she’s being completely shady by not hugging Mary

Poor Mary, you wanna come stay at my house but not make eye contact I would lose my shit too lol!!!

Brandon’s mother should have not avoided eye contact too I hated that

  • coreysgal@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Brandon is looking for validation that he’s worth something. His mother ditched him for drugs. Mary’s controlling originally made him feel that he must be valuable to her. Now Mary’s " go if you want to" is putting him back to childhood and his mother making drugs more important than him. He has a lot of frustration with both women and their treatment of him. Mary is still young, and despite her " his mom’s a bitch" attitude, she’s intimidated by his mother. His mother is suddenly very concerned about his " mistakes", when overall, his are nothing compared to hers. Both of these kids are looking for the validation they never got from their parents. His mother is late to the party being a parent. She needs to STFU.

    • Feisty_Nope@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Not trying to minimize the effect of the mom’s addiction on Brandan, but it’s considered a medical condition. He traded a decent life with a future to go live in abject poverty with a toxic relationship in a country where he doesn’t even speak the language and then got her pregnant, so he’s now tied to this for life. It’s sad all around.
      I think your analysis of why he’s like that is probably correct.

      • coreysgal@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I fully agree it’s considered a medical condition. Unfortunately for the kids, even as adults who logically know this, logic is never going to overtake pain. I see this with my own kids, with my husband being undiagnosed bi polar for years. He finally was diagnosed and has medication, so all the bad stuff stopped. They are adults and understand it was a medical condition, but he burned too many bridges, and they despise him.