What's more, in this kind of thing the mother usually occupies a strategic position and naturally becomes her daughter's confidante and ally, with the object of their military operations being not the boyfriend but the father.
何況在這件事上，做母親的往往位居要衝，自然而然成了女兒的親密顧問，甚至親密戰友，作戰的對象不是男友，卻是父親。