Originally Posted by AnxiousMama
That is his fall back mode in one on one situations with new adults.
My DH is much like your DS...
My DS, at least before the teen years, took to one on one adult attention like a plant that had been raised in a closet on meeting the Sun for the first time. People found it easy to believe his occasional lies that I was a 'big time career woman who never had time for him.' Ah elementary school!

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