Is it normal for mommy issues to mess up my social life?
Having been smothered as a child, I feel that I cannot tolerate any sort of closeness, emotional or otherwise. It was not until I reached my 12th birthday that I slept in my own bed (my mother defended our co-sleeping on Biblical grounds), and when I eventually moved out (some 3 hours away from where I was raised), I had to get a restraining order against my mother, who refused to leave the premises, and has been making vague threats about castrating me to stop me from finding a woman (not that I particularly want one). I've had to change my phone number before, because she won't stop calling, and I've blocked her on all forms of social media.
I feel that this sort of relationship has resulted in a form of social maladjustment for me, as I cannot tolerate any form of relationship beyond simple acquaintanceship and I find the idea of having sexual contact with another person to be invasive. I've made a hobby of writing angry, invective-filled letters to my mother with no intention of sending any.