Mammonies!

This was the title of one of segments of last week's TV how "Sixty Minutes" coverage and I found it quite interesting and wanted to share it with you and add a few thoughts of mine as well.

For beginners, this is a totally new word and to be frank with you, I did not even look it up in the dictionary to find out whether it is genuine or not, but this is how the program translated the word: In essence mammonie is a guy who still lives with his parents at the age of 26+, in short and plain English it means "Mama's boy". These guys have jobs, paying jobs, but still live with their parents in the same room with the same furniture like the one that they were in high school. Mom still cooks their favorite food, cleans their room and does their laundry. One mom even said that she sits up for her son to get home at nights. Parents added that they never even suggest to their sons to leave the house, because they believe that the sons will leave when they are ready.

Oh by the way, this program was taped in Italy and the mammonie is an Italian term for these guys.

Being a naturalized citizen myself, I can totally relate to this subject and can understand where the parents are coming from. I know first hand that this mammonie thing is a definitely a cultural thing and nothing else. This is the way that parents help their children save money during single hood phase in their life to be able to buy a house when they are married. And yes, in my country everyone did get married and stayed married until death does us apart. Where I was born, this is called parenthood.

But I am digressing. My point is not debating whether this is a cultural thing or not or whether they get married or not. I am not even debating whether this is right or wrong. I just don't believe that living with your parents at older age necessarily make you a Mama's boy. I know a lot of men who live in their apartments and are even married, but are still Mama's boy or a mammonie.

Three years ago I was inspired to open a mama's by club as a joke, and you can not believe how many candidates and members I recruited. I had even some honorary seats too!!

I believe that most men in general are mama boys whether they live with their parents or not. They still go to their parents house to watch TV without interruptions and to have their favorite foods. Some still go shopping with their mom, because they like the way that mom pays attention to them while they shop and treat them to lunch afterwards. I know married men that have vacations alone with their mom and call them four to five times a day and tell their mom everything and I MEAN everything to their mom. Most of these men have been away from their moms in college years and had their apartments after graduation. So what do you call these men?

The way I see it, mammonies are all around us and do not necessarily live with their parents. On the contrary, real Mama's boys, mammonies, hate that term and vehemently deny being one, while the ones that live with their parents, and the program called them mammonies, had no trouble talking about their lives with their parents and how much they love it. I find them very smart in financial matters and frankly, I think they make better parents too.

But hey who asks my opinion???