Joy:

     I suspect that something did happen that mom is either not tellling or
may not remember or may have seemed insignificant.

     Katie W is on here and she is the "master" of nursing strike
solutions....briefly the idea is to reestablish to intimate relationship
between these two people following which the bf will come back.

      have mom concentrate on the two of them being togeather, taking a bath,
cuddling, etc,

       I beleive that Katie's solution was published in jhl....

                good luck, let us know what happens

                                                 patricia