Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness

Podcast your relationship with your mother is likely the first and most foundational

connection in your life. At its best, this bond can be a source of comfort, strength,

and love that lasts a lifetime and changes in healthy, appropriate, and adaptive ways as you mature into adulthood.

But sometimes the attachment between a mother and a son can become unhealthy, resulting in a phenomenon

called mother, son, and meshman, in which a man can become a kind of surrogate husband to his mom.

Here to impact this complex issue is Dr. Kenneth Adams.

Ken is a clinical psychologist who has spent much of his career working with what he calls

Mother and Mesh Men, and is the author of when he's

married to mom. Tain the show Ken impacts the characteristics of mother and

meshed men and how to know if you are one. Annie explains what can happen

in childhood that would cause a mother to immeche with their son.

We discuss the problems in meshmen can create men's

relationships and other areas of life,

and how it can lead to things like compulsive porn use.

And we impact what it means for a man to become independent and

emancipate from his mother,

how it's different from cutting her off, and what it looks like to have a healthy

relationship with your mom. After the show's over check at our show notes at AIM.

I S slash Mary Tamaum. All right, Ken Adams, welcome to the show.

Thank you. Nice to be here, Brett.

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