I dated a girl who was like this with her mother. Daily phone calls, where her mother would tear her down, leaving me spending an hour coddling her and reassuring her.

Every fight we had ended up with her calling her mother to tell her EVERYTHING.

On top of the daily phone calls, we had to visit them at a minimum of once a week. The sad thing is it never ended until after we stopped dating.

I'm still friends with her and after her third failed long term relationship (we were together for about two years) she asked me what the problem was. I told her that her mother was. She admitted the other blokes had said the same thing.

There was no filter between her and her mother. Plus she went to her every time things went bad, to get someone who unconditionally supported her (but usually tore her down about everything else).

Now, she is married and the mother is no longer in her life as much. I know she still catches up with them every two weeks or so, but the phone calls have stopped.

But with her, she had to realise it was a problem and then get help to move past it. So unless your boyfriend realises it is a problem - which he probably doesn't - then nothing will change and he will make it covert, and then tell his mother you don't like him.

You won't like hearing this, but you're 18. Fuck around, date a bunch of guys, get out there and see what type of people are outside of your schoolgirl crushes. He may be the one for you, but how would you know?

Plus, having a single period in your early 20s allows you to fuck around, experience a variety of sexual experiences, then once you've matured a bit, you aren't stuck with someone you invested so much time and emotion with. Whether people like it or not, they think of relationships as investments and breaking up is throwing it all away.