7. Your Partner Has An Unhealthily Obsessive Relationship With Their Family
Its your first Christmas with your significant others family. This is a super exciting time in your relationship. It is your chance to impress everyone, look wonderful, and sneak off for some adolescent make-out sessions away from prying eyes. While on a tour of the family house, your future mother-in-law shows you an old, moth-eaten afghan she made when your lover was first born. It is not only ugly, but smells of stale cheese and mildew. When the timer goes off in the kitchen, she excuses herself just in time to miss you snicker to your lover about the blanket and how unattractive it is. You are surprised to see them unflinching, no speck of humor on their face. In fact, they snatch the blanket out of your hands, fold it delicately, and shout something about how wonderful their mother is and that you have no right to talk about her hard work and years of generosity while keeping their family together. They promptly march out of the room and hurry to the kitchen to help with dinner. You may be thinking that you shouldnt have said those things and that your pooh bear is right. Or, you could be thinking... Thanks for letting me know that you are completely insane! There is no limit on horror movie villains with unhealthy relationships to their family. The most famed being, of course, Norman Bates of 1960s Psycho. There is nothing normal about a grown man who is obsessed with taxidermy and listens to everything his mother tells him to do. Even further, theres nothing normal about a grown man who dresses up like his mother and kills innocent motel room renters. What is so deceptive about this particular tell tale sign is that the line between unconditional love and obsession is so thin and, depending on how your SO is brought up, can lay anywhere between cleaning the plates after dinner to washing their mothers naked backs for them in the shower.