Controversial marriage and relationship counsellor George Lutterodt has advised that men should not allow their wives and mothers to be close friends since that would lead to their early death.
According to the counsellor speaking on The Toast Show, men who allow this to happen are doomed forever because it’s not a good thing for them.
He said: “If you see a wife who has befriended the husband’s mother, the man will die early.”
His comment drew immediate pushback from one of the panelists on the show, who questioned, “Isn’t that going to be healthy for you?”
But he maintained her stance, saying that, “You have never been a man before. If your wife and your mother are friends, what it means is that my mother will use her to continue treating me like a child.”
According to him, marriage is a transition where a man leaves his mother to build a new life with his wife.
“That’s why we leave our parents, especially our mothers, to marry,” he explained. “So if my wife becomes like my mother, I am finished.”
“You are wicked!” Lutterodt insisted. “You want to be a widow because my mother wants to continue controlling me, and you are giving her the opportunity.”
Additionally, he cautioned that a wife who identifies too strongly with her husband’s mother permits the older lady to exert control over the marriage.
