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Clare Stephens

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Mamamia Out Loud
The Boy ‘Mom’ Trap & Actually, We’ve Met

But that divorce was confirmed to People Magazine only two weeks ago.

Mamamia Out Loud
The Boy ‘Mom’ Trap & Actually, We’ve Met

So clearly, I think this is a situation where a couple is working through some complicated relationship dynamics, triangulating those, if you'll allow me to Esther Perel this situation, through the sons.

Mamamia Out Loud
The Boy ‘Mom’ Trap & Actually, We’ve Met

They have a weird dynamic.

Mamamia Out Loud
The Boy ‘Mom’ Trap & Actually, We’ve Met

I looked back in 2019.

Mamamia Out Loud
The Boy ‘Mom’ Trap & Actually, We’ve Met

Yeah, I went into Jason Biggs' Instagram from 2019.

Mamamia Out Loud
The Boy ‘Mom’ Trap & Actually, We’ve Met

There is an Instagram post where Jenny is embracing their son in happier times.

Mamamia Out Loud
The Boy ‘Mom’ Trap & Actually, We’ve Met

They're on a holiday.

Mamamia Out Loud
The Boy ‘Mom’ Trap & Actually, We’ve Met

They go to Germany every year on holiday.

Mamamia Out Loud
The Boy ‘Mom’ Trap & Actually, We’ve Met

The caption on this was, there used to be a time when my wife wanted to canoodle with me on a mountaintop.

Mamamia Out Loud
The Boy ‘Mom’ Trap & Actually, We’ve Met

And at that point, I think the two of you are feeding off each other with this.

Mamamia Out Loud
The Boy ‘Mom’ Trap & Actually, We’ve Met

Because I get that that's a joke.

Mamamia Out Loud
The Boy ‘Mom’ Trap & Actually, We’ve Met

I get that it's all said tongue in cheek.

Mamamia Out Loud
The Boy ‘Mom’ Trap & Actually, We’ve Met

But when you are making jokes that are premised on the idea that your son has replaced you...

Mamamia Out Loud
The Boy ‘Mom’ Trap & Actually, We’ve Met

romantically in some way.

Mamamia Out Loud
The Boy ‘Mom’ Trap & Actually, We’ve Met

That's just, there's a kernel there of that's how he views the son.

Mamamia Out Loud
The Boy ‘Mom’ Trap & Actually, We’ve Met

No, I find this so mystifying.

Mamamia Out Loud
The Boy ‘Mom’ Trap & Actually, We’ve Met

And I want to ask you why you think the boy moms who have the bumper stickers, why do they want to tell us that they're a boy mom?

Mamamia Out Loud
The Boy ‘Mom’ Trap & Actually, We’ve Met

And in fact, there was a study done at the start of this year that said for the first time, this is an Australian study, for the first time parents expressed a preference more for having a girl than having a boy.

Mamamia Out Loud
The Boy ‘Mom’ Trap & Actually, We’ve Met

So there really is a bit of a sort of sense now that boys are hard work, trouble, they're all going to grow up to be like adolescents, the TV show, and that you'd just rather have a nice, well-behaved girl.

Mamamia Out Loud
The Boy ‘Mom’ Trap & Actually, We’ve Met

So you don't get that for boys entering puberty, it's girls.