my single mother and uptight brother

Get a guy for your brother too. He sounds like he needs a good ramming.

tell your brother you want your mom to be happy and ask him if he wants her to be happy
then explain your motive to him

get them to meet behind your bros back, till she likes the guy and stands up for herself

Your brother sounds like a complete wanker. If you have set your mum up with this gut behind your brothers back. It sounds like whatever happens your brother is going to male things difficult. Does your mum know hes being like this. He obviously feels like hes the man of the house and doesnt want this to change

Sorry, but I think you should BOTH let your mother decide for herself what she wants to do. Remember, Mother knows best children.

Me and my brother are only used to see my mom get hurt and hes very protective of all of me my mom and my sisters and he says when i started dating i became different and didnt talk to anyone else but my friends and a bounch of guys all the time then he woud get rude and call me a slut and everything because befor i started i would talk to anybody but him because i was more of the shy type but my mom is very easy to take control over because shes afraid to do anything because she doesnt wan6t us to get tooken away from her again. but my brother is to hard to handle because hes got angermanagement issues and i think he might be bipolar or something

Well, your brother shouldn't be able to control anyone but himself. Same for you and your mom. If she thinks it will make the family run more smoothly without another guy, she's probably right. And your brother is right when he says people change. I haven't met anyone that hasn't changed, in some way or another, after getting into a romantic relationship with someone else. Your mom has kids to raise. It sounds like her getting into another relationship with another guy will cause disorder among disorder within the family. Plus, you said that you wouldn't want to see your mom get hurt. Can you imagine how hurt she would be if this didn't work out in the end? Or if your brother does something drastic? Then again, you could be right, and things could work, but the probability seems low. What ever happened with your dad?

my dad left me n my brother when i was two and said he didnt want anything to do with us.... If my mom would just go on a date it couldnt hurt anything but my brother can throw a mean bunch and i think my mom needs to go on a date again like she use to she was happy then and my brother couldnt say anything about it. What im also worried about is im seeing this guy and my brother wont even let me date anybody and im 16 and im not lettin him stop me but knowing him hell at least try to break us up and im not lettin that happen at all. but my mom does take verygood care of us and does deserve to go out once and a while with out my brother attatched to her arm all the time

Good for you, you want a cookie or a cracker?