Most Guy Syndrome

My mother recently told me that when she was a teenager she would always say that she wanted to marry a guy who was an orphan because then she wouldn’t have to deal with a nosy mother in-law. Little did she know that she would marry a man with a huge Puerto Rican family that is far from the words quite. However now I understand what she meant about wanting to marry an orphan and I am going to call it “most guys syndrome.”

Now the symstophms of this syndrome cannot be mistaken or ignored. You know your husband or boyfriend has this syndrome when after you cook him a meal with love and care he complains about how it will never compare to his mothers. Or when describing the perfect girl he mentions distinct qualities his mother or sister have, like curly hair, long legs, or short girls. And I know that most boys do do this. For instance whenever I cut my hair short my brother hates it because for most of my life I’ve kept it long and it is what he was grown used to. When he dos find a girlfriend I am almost certain that she will be similar in body weight and long hair, because thats his type.

And for the most part there is nothing wrong with this syndrome, if anything I find it endearing and cute that guys believe you can match up to the women that raised them. However some guys (like my father) place their mothers on such high pedestals that very few women can actually reach. So then they find themselves competing against there mothers which is a terrible position to be in, quite frankly.

Guys should be conscious of this and make it much easier for there other half to get along with there beloved mothers. The amazing example in the bible of Ruth and her mother in-law Naomi.

Ruth 1:22- So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.

-Angela