As someone who has a very checkered relationship with his mom, I’d put a lot more pressure on my mom rather than my partner (not that Mary’s the best cup of tea you could have). Bridging a gap and rebuilding a relationship with your child, she should I believe really tried to lean into Brandans needs, but yet she wants to mom him. Not gonna happen. I don’t see anything positive coming out of this next but they’re about to pull off. As much as I think brandan should take Mary and his kids America’s for a better life, first impressions, his mom probably shouldn’t have much to do with that. He obv did well enough for himself to build his gf’s family a house in the Philippines, but if he bounced back to the us, now Mary’s family has something nice and would possibly forever be respected by them by the work that was put in. Brandan doesn’t have enough ambition in his life right now and he isn’t sticking to his guns and trusting Mary that this is what their life will be. It doesn’t have to be like that though