Dear Queenie,
My boyfriend says I’m exactly what he wants in a wife except that I look like his mother.
I always heard men tend to marry women who remind them of their mother.
Queenie, what do you think he means and why is this a problem for him?—Confused
Dear Confused,
Before you go rushing out to have plastic surgery, you need to meet his mother.
Does he just mean you have a strong physical resemblance to a woman a generation older than yourself or are you actually that much older than your boyfriend?
Or does he have such a poor relationship with his mother that any slight resemblance, whether physical or behavioural, is a turnoff for him?
Once you have the answers to these questions you will have a better idea what his problem is and what, if anything, you want to do about it.
