History PlayingWith / MyBelovedSmother

** Alice is a [[HandsOffParenting "hands off" parent]] who lets Charlie go completely after he leaves the house.

** Charlie has a [[AmbiguousDisorder mental disability]]

* '''Played For Horror''': Alice's unrelenting, decades-long smothering has turned Charlie into a copycat of [[Film/{{Psycho}} Norman Bates]]. Maybe even, like Norman, Charlie killed Alice to try to make her ''shut up'' once and for all, but her nagging still hounds him as hallucinations.

* '''Gender Flip''':
** OverprotectiveDad
** Alan is overly protective of Charlie.

* '''Played For Drama''': Charlie is 55 and every single second he's awake he's got to withstand his mother lecturing him about anything he does (and blinking too hard at any point of those lectures leads to the standard "I raised an inconsiderate son!" rant). Charlie would ''really'' like to holler at a BigShutUp, but he doesn't want to risk [[MadeOutToBeAJerkass someone misrepresenting it as an abusive episode and calling the cops]].

** Charlie is brainwashed frequently by Alice that she is overprotective because she is the only one who actually loves him, he tried to call her out several times in his younger years but failed, so he gives up on it, several years later, [[{{Manchild}} he still acts like a little kid]] [[SpoiledBrat who demand EVERYTHING from his mom]], he [[BasementDweller still living with her]] since she never allows him to move anywhere, he can't keep a job for more than a few months before he gets fired for NoSocialSkills and doing something stupid, and he never quite learned to do basic life skills by himself such as how to clean his house and manage his bank accounts because his mom already does everything for him. As time goes by, Alice [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizes that she has bred an absolute]] PsychopathicManchild who consumes both her energy and her saved money from the pension, and affects her health as well.

** Charlie is a really dependent person who needs attention and help from his parents even as he gets older.

** Charlie complains about his mother's overbearing nature to everyone in earshot; when she finally appears, it's revealed he was [[EmoTeen exaggerating]] [[BrattyTeenageSon wildly]] and she's a perfectly normal mother.

** Alice will come into Charlie's work place and call him constantly, cooing over him and even spies on Diane, Charlie's girlfriend, [[KnightTemplarParent to make sure that everything is fine for him]].

** Charlie is brainwashed frequently by Alice that she is overprotective because she is the only one who actually loves him, he tried to call her out several times in his younger years but failed, so he gives up from it, several years later, [[{{Manchild}} he still acts like a little kid]] [[SpoiledBrat who demand EVERYTHING from his mom]], he [[BasementDweller still living with her]] since she never allows him to move anywhere, he can't keep a job for more than a few months before he gets fired for NoSocialSkills and doing something stupid, and he never quite learned to doing basic life skills by himself such as how to cleaning his house and managing his bank accounts because his mom already do everything for him. As times goes by, Alice [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizes that she has bred an absolute]] PsychopathicManchild who consume both her energy and her saved money from the pension, and affect her health as well.

** [[MissingCHild Charlie was kidnapped as a child]], so Alice's smothering is an emotional reaction to it.

** Alice forgets about her own life because she worries about Charlie's before her own, and Charlie is an UngratefulBastard.

** Charlie complains about his mother's overbearing nature to everyone in earshot; when she finally appears, it's revealed he was [[EmoTeen exaggerating wildly]] and she's a perfectly normal mother.

** Demetra, Alice's old friend, after seeing everything in her family finally gives her an AntiSmotherLoveTalk, which prompts Alice to loose her grip over Charlie,

* '''Played For Drama''': Charlie is 55 and every single second he's awake he's got to withstand his mother lecturing him about anything he does (and blinking too hard at any point of those lectures leads to the standard "I raised an inconsiderate son!" rant). Charlie would ''really'' like to holler a BigShutUp, but he doesn't wants to risk [[MadeOutToBeAJerkass someone misrepresenting it as an abusive episode and calling the cops]].
* '''Played For Horror''': Alice's unrelenting, decades-long smothering has turned Charlie into a copy-cat of [[Film/{{Psycho}} Norman Bates]]. Maybe even, like Norman, Charlie killed Alice to try to make her ''shut up'' once and for all, but her nagging still hounds him as hallucinations.

** [[AdultFear Charlie was kidnapped as a child]], so Alice's smothering is an emotional reaction to it.

** Alternately: Alice forgets about her own life because she worries about Charlie's before her own, and Charlie is an UngratefulBastard.