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Patient reminds their partner to eat, to drink water, to bring a jacket, to see the dentist. Partner has, on one occasion, been booked into his own annual physical.
He will not grow up. She will grow tired.
None. Stopping leads to scurvy.
Patients with Chronic Mothering-Your-Boyfriend Syndrome typically present with some or all of the following:
This is the Institute's entry for Chronic Mothering-Your-Boyfriend Syndrome — a chronic condition cataloged for archival purposes and shared for patient use. No prescription exists. No intervention has been shown effective. Recognition is the primary benefit of diagnosis.
Formal name: Maternalis romanticus supervisoria. Not found in the DSM-5 or ICD-11. Found, routinely, in the patient population.
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