I love my mom. It's just been me and her my whole life, but now that I'm an adult it seems she has become super clingy with me. She always rubs on me as if I were her boyfriend, and she gets mad if I pull away (I don't really like to be touched).
Anyway she lives in Massachusetts, and I live in Chicago (where the wedding will be). My fiance and I are paying for the wedding, but she keeps insisting she knows better and has these ridiculous ideas. Once she said that my fiance should be funding the honeymoon by himself because she read that on an etiquette site. Also from "etiquette" sites she has determined that she is allowed to invite her own guests, that I should pay for her trip (airfare and hotel room), hair, make up, and dress. Also she keeps forcing this idea of a mother/daughter dance to a particular song on me. We are having a very small wedding (maybe 50 people) and very casual. It seems that she doesn't understand this no matter how hard I try. My fiance is not having a mother/son dance, and it would seem so weird to have a mother/daughter dance. And even if I agreed to dance with her she won't bend on the song. Also since we are having a small wedding I don't know why she keeps insisting that she is allowed to invite her own friends. She says that she will know no one at the wedding, but basically everyone at the wedding are her sisters and brothers. I keep telling her no on these things and her only response is YES!
Sorry this is so long. Does anyone have any experience dealing with demanding moms, and how to get through to them? Thanks