Some people love and adore their mother and father. That isn’t lame. It speaks volumes about their heart. They were raised in a very loving environment and therefore are able to pass that ability to love deeply onto their future husband and their children. She is a peach.
Hopefully in life you will eventually learn the difference between lust and true love. It is vast like the ocean with true love being worth everything.
Generally speaking however, I am not postulating that one cannot both be married and love and adore their parents. That has nothing to do at all with this particular story in which the jilted bride-to-be decided to take her mother on the honeymoon instead.
Now I try putting myself in that situation. I was married some 30 years ago and I also had a big honeymoon planned. If my wife left me at the altar, I can think of no scenario in which I would go on the honeymoon anyhow. I would feel like the world's biggest loser. Especially if I took my mother with me!
I can just picture myself coming back afterwards. People would ask me "How did the wedding and honeymoon go." And I'd say "Well, ahhh, my bride never showed up for the wedding...but hey, I did go on the honeymoon anyway...and I took my mom with me."
Doesn't everybody see how pathetic that sounds?
Personally I would have been devastated if that happened to me. And I'd be in no mood to go on a trip. Maybe I would let both my parents go - let them have a second honeymoon.
I think about the honeymoon my wife and I did have 30 years ago. A couple days in New York City, seeing shows. A cruise to the Caribbean. Days of sandy beaches, nights of walking together on the beach and romantic dinners, etc. All of this was planned ahead of time by the way. In those days, you have travel agencies book everything as there was no Internet.
I try to substitute my wife with my mother on that trip and...sorry, but it just doesn't work!
I hope when my daughter grows up she still loves and adores me.
It’s not an odd desire.
My parenting has that as one of it’s goals.