Sounds like emotional manipulation to me.
I love my Mom to death, I hope I wasn't badmouthing her too badly.
You see, the last time I really tried to get to know a girl was last September/October. Mom and a friend of hers out of state conspired to set me up with this girl the friend knew. While visiting the friend out-of-state, I was introduced to the girl, and we traded e-mails.
I liked the girl, and Mom and the friend were thrilled to death. We, the girl and I, started e-mailing, and everything seemed to be going fine...although Mom couldn't get over it, and had to read all our e-mails. The girl--who made it clear she was thoroughly uninterested in me romantically--said she didn't mind if my Mom read anything.
But I liked the girl and hoped she'd change her mind (a dose of experience for everyone who hasn't been there...if someone doesn't like you, they're not going to change their minds).
Long story short, or a little shorter, things came to a horrible end, and this girl and I never spoke again. Mom...and her friend...insisted in getting involved, and that made things a whole lot worse.
Since then, Mom has promised to keep out of my business if I ever meet a girl and try again, but I'm skeptical. And she's still trying to find me girls to set me up with. You'd think she'd learned her lesson.