I love Yuna Hollander, she’s such a great character, but I think we should acknowledge how incredibly lucky it was for all involved that Shane ended up with Ilya Rozanov because I feel if he had tried to bring home literally ANYONE else Yuna Hollander would have been the most overstepping, enmeshed, boymom mother-in-law in the world like…
I think it would be worse if he had a female partner obviously (you should Not have to compete with your husband’s mom for the role of most important woman in his life) but even if Shane was with some nice normal man, his partner would have to be like “hey it’s great that you’re so close with your family but I’d also like to see my family at christmas sometimes. maybe we can alternate which side we spend it with each year?” and the Hollanders would agree of course because that’s would be the polite and fair thing to do but deep down Yuna would never fully forgive this disruption to her traditions and the reduced amount of time she gets to spend with her son. And Shane and his partner would end up in couples counselling to discuss Shane’s reluctance to push back against his mother being overly involved in their lives and the strain it’s putting on their relationship.
But Ilya has no family of origin left to split time with + his mommy issues lead him to find her involvement sweet and nurturing instead of overbearing so they luckily never have to address it👍














