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The mother can't control him, she has never had any control or influence over him. If I tell her to have a conversation, nothing will change and I will seem even weaker.
I need to do something, but it seems impossible.
If she can't control her kid that's her fault and issue. Why would you enter a relationship where the kid doesn't have respect nor listens to his mother? Sure... You can pull a criminal minds (the movie not the show) and turn the kid around. But entering this is that makes you seem weak. It means you lack options cause if you did you won't be with a single mom. Nor one with a kid who wouldn't listen. If I'm dating a girl and she has a dog that keeps shitting on my floor, that's her issue to fix. Her house may have shit stained carpets but why am I going to entertain a relationship where her dog is shitting on my floor as well? So now I have to have a nasty place. And why would I do that? Because I lack dating options. When she sees me dealing with it she knows I'm weak anyway because if I was strong I wouldn't deal with it.
That's the real advice but if you insist on making it work like this if I were you I'd take over. If the kid doesn't even respect her he's not going to respect a stranger. I could understand if it were a kid who listened to his mom and was just rude to you because he's afraid of his mom being pulled away. But it just sounds like a shit kid tbh.