Originally posted by: columbia
I did not watch the episode. I want to point out I was raised by a single mother, we are three siblings. My brother oldest, me and my younger sister. I have so much to say about being raised by a single mom.
We were in a sort of joint family, in the sense we lived in the same building as my two mamas. My youngest mama moved out very early but we cousins are super close.
Honestly ITV never portrays single motherhood, joint families, children of single mothers well at all. there is no accuracy of any sort with respect to emotions, struggles or addressing cultural and societal hypocrisy with respect to it.
As for the age old single mom and her son dynamic, it’s actually slightly funny, because my brother almost took a fatherly role with me and my sister, to the extent he started becoming very conservative and strict with us. My mother put an immediate stop to it and encouraged him to marry early, he was in the army on SSC. He did, a love marriage. My mother and my bhabhi are super super close. They had to be since Bhaiya extended his SSC and was constantly getting posted. My older nephew literally was growing up in a household full of women, in fact at that time our maternal grandmother also stayed with us until her death.
I think what I am trying to say is it is high time ITV start portraying or addressing single motherhood in a more realistic fashion. My brother never got away with anything, in fact, my younger sister always felt she had more freedom than Bhaiya. Even when my brother was posted for the first time, she was extremely happy, proud and always used his example to us sisters of following our dream. This whole possessive mother, bratty son thing needs to end,
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