Momma's boy.

My brother dated a woman a few years ago. She had an odd relationship with her son, probably worse than the OP described.



He was your stereotypical gull grown man child, mid twenties, couldn't keep a steady girlfriend, never left home, never had a proper job. He did sort of work, he had half a dozen lawns he mowed each week, so long as his mother drove him, he never learned to drive.



He lived at home, spent all of his time with his mother, they went pretty much everywhere together. It was a bizarre mommas boy situation as far as anybody could tell for a while. At some point things between this woman and my brother got a little more serious, and he would stay overnight with her a couple of times a week. This went on for a while, then he got to where he was staying with her for a couple of nights in a row, and that is where it got weird.



After he had staid overnight two nights in a row a few times the woman gave him the "we need to talk". Naturally that normally means shit is going bad quick, she wants to eject, she is pregnant, she just found out she has bubonic herpes or something. No, it was oddly different, everything was still going great, expect her son was getting a little uncomfortable with him staying for more than a night. My brother didn't think too much, young dudes can be territorial, and I don't like having guests, I like to roam around in my drawers at night, can't do that with guests about. All seemed OK, for a while, they went back to him staying over night a couple of times a week, but generally not more than a single night.



Well, a month or so later, he staid overnight for three nights, and a couple of days later they had the "we need to talk" thing again. My brother told her that her son didn't have to worry about what he did, that he could be comfortable and it wouldn't be offensive to him. She went on to explain that wasn't the problem, the problem was that her son was getting lonely, he was used to sleeping in her bed with her, and didn't like sleeping by himself.



Lights came on, alarms went off, shit started making since. The woman had had her tubes tied, although she was single and hadn't been in relationships years before, about the time the her son turned 16. The son fairly regularly talked about his sex life, never really giving details about his partner, and once again he didn't have a girlfriend (my brother assumed he had a skank on the side he was hitting).



Yeah, grown son, no girlfriend, active sex life, sleeps in the bed with mother and gets lonely after more than a night?