Boys are raised to believe that a "good man" treats a woman's tears as sacred, plus a lot of single moms engage in "emotional incest" with their sons meaning they treat their son as a surrogate husband minus the sex. This includes being her shoulder to cry on.

Funnily enough though, being a woman's shoulder to cry on without any sex is basically a "progressive" "marriage" anyways. Guess betacuck husbands are their wife's surrogate son when you think about it.

I'm off to take a shower now (not with my mom).