All good points but think about this, was she ever really a sweet caring Mother figure or was she a little crazy from the start? She married a drunken ass hole in less then a year of knowing him and he dumped her for being too clingy, she argued for custody of a 15 year old boy that she had known for less than two years claiming to have been raising him with no parental experience when he was well past his developemental years, she wanted him to stay home with her rather than hang out with his friends, she is posessive and overbaring, she liked the idea of him waiting on her hand and foot, she was flattered by his suspected fetish for her feet and the thing she was most pissed about was that he wanted a giant fantasy version of her rather than the real thing. the part about her wanting him to find a girlfriend, at least in my intentions, was just her trying to rationalize her anger and showing him to the girls from his school was, on the surface, to punish him with humiliation but subconciously it was a way to make sure she could keep him to herself. after all she didn't show him off until she heard about their crush on him.

as far as going beyond teaching him a lesson is concerned, he hasn't told her how bad it hurts and she thinks hes super durable. in short, she has no idea what she is really putting him through. she is pretty much just acting out what he wrote down.

if it helps, I do have an ending in mind where they are both very happy in their own ways but Gentle is not a term I would use to discribe this story. in my defence though it is labled violent not gentle.

Thank you very much for taking the time to comment. all construcktive critisism is always welcom.