I see your point. Iow it wouldn't be about "permission" to see the dude per se, but more like a not-wanting-to-disappoint-the-parents-or-ruffle-any-feathers type thing. Like that? Especially if Mom and Dad are paying all the bills, and tuition, and car payment and yadda yadaa... and if Mom and Dad are very protective (I'm hesitant to say over-protective) and if Mom and Dad have very definite views about what is acceptable
and what isn't. He is a dean of a medical school? and she is a nurse? (is that right?)
I can see a possible undercurrnet of a power dynamic at play there regardless of how close they are. Im saying I
do believe they are close, but... oh heck, what am I trying to say?
I didn't say that very well. I mean that even tho they are very close (her coming home every week, calling every day) even with those indicators of closeness, I can still envision a possible subtle, unspoken dynamic at work there. Like an unwritten rule of obedience? No that's not the word, is it? I know what I mean; someone help me out here.