I swear to God my husband needs his mom's approval for everything. And he doesn't stand up for me when she's flat out disrespectful towards me. She left him when he was 7 and and left for 23 years. She's only been back in his life for a year and he is so scared of upsetting her and her leaving him again and she knows this so she can manipulate him to do whatever she wants. Its fucking annoying.