 Some experts fear that mother and child may become too close. Women who choose to do that do it because they have a tremendous need to be loved. Without really thoroughly thinking through, you know, what it may mean to a child. Their relationship between them and their mothers might be so intense. And the mother may have such a great need for these children to achieve, to succeed, to prove her own adequacy that these children might be under a great deal of pressure. A son husband essentially is a son who is tethered to his mother in a way that a husband should. At the age of 10 years old, he became a 30-year-old woman's perfect man.