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
Is Mary not going to apologize for her behavior when she didn’t want Brandon hanging out with his mom and sister. I think the past needs to be discussed.
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 Mary’s controlling originally made him feel that he must be valuable to her.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.
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.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.
I’m sorry this happened to your family. And I agree, logic can’t erase the pain.
I’m not fan fan of his mom (or Mary for that matter), but I wonder if Brandon is low key getting back at his mom right now. He kept mentioning he didn’t want her to relapse during this visit. But I think the stress and pranks he’s doing will cause one. It’s not nice to cook her frogs as a prank and telling her after the fact. Also clearly she’s terrified of spiders. And seeing that ginormous spider on the wall freaked her out. I’m not a fan of his mom and she did some major damage to him growing up. But these two things, plus the animosity with Mary will definitely cause her to relapse.
They are all trash, should not be breeding, and I’m sure that shithole of a country is a great way to start a life.
Did they seriously invite his mother !? (I’m a few behind but not worried about spoilers tbh) last I saw they were having major problems with Brandon not helping, and Mary’s grandfather was concerned about the attention the arguments attracted to their home….and then his mother comes? Isn’t that really bad timing, regardless what you think of Mary she’s still pregnant and needs less stress.