I'm sad my mother doesn't think like this, over the last 2 years she always told me how "relationships are overrated" and "you'll only have problems" and similar shit.
Not like she doesn't want me to have a gf, she just knows I can't and won't. So here she's being realistic but she's coping when she tells herself (I'm 99.99% certain of this) in a few years he'll be happy alone, or with only friends, or maybe with a very ugly gf (I told her I want a pretty one and she laughs).
So yeah, when she used to try to talk me out of wanting a gf (she probably did this to make me feel less bad) I should have said "other moms would ask their son 'why don't you have a gf yet?'" I'd love to prove her wrong so much but I'll never be able to (get at least a decent gf)
Sometimes she says looks matter, sometimes she says they don't. She always implies I can only get a very ugly gf, she told me "I'd be happy if you have no gf, or a very ugly one."
I get angry writing this, literally.