"How deep is a mothers love?" That is a question philosophers sociologist and psychologists have been pondering for decades yet even centuries. Just how far will a mother go to protect her child?
In the animal kingdom, especially mammals and primates, that love is very deep. For example, never get between a mother bear and her cubs because if you do, you are asking for a world of hurt.
In the human race, we could very well say that most mothers are very protective of their children. Some would even go so far as to say that mothers would "walk through the fires of hell" to keep their children safe from harm. Let us look at a mother son relationship that had a significantly strong bond and ending up being much more than mother and son but lovers as well.
It started when Raylene was 18 years old. She was in love with her high school sweetheart name Raymond. Raymond was a year ahead of her in school and after graduation he did like every other able bodied man in his small town in eastern Tennessee, he would go to work at the local plant.
Raylene had just turned 18 and just started her senior year in high school when she got pregnant. Since she lived in a small "church going town," religion played a huge influence in politics and as a result, school board policy dictated that it wasn't "proper" for a girl to be pregnant in high school. As a result, she had to drop out of school.
Raymond was a decent fellow and was raised with the belief that if you "knocked a girl up" you had to "make an honest woman out of her" which meant to marry her. He married Raylene and Raylene stayed at home and raised her son Johnny Ray.
Since Raylene stayed at home with Johnny Ray, they developed an inseparable bond. Johnny Ray was close to his daddy as well, but much closer to his mother Raylene.
Raylene's uncle Frank who lived in Ashville North Carolina was the only relative who didn't "shun" them like Raylene's and Raymond's family as well as the "good church going folk of the town" had done.
The "church going people" in that town had no sympathy for them. "They made their bed let them lie in it" pretty much summed up the attitude of the "proper upstanding citizens of the town." Raymond's buddies at the plant were not part of the "upstanding citizens," so they all helped out when they could and the plant let Raymond get as over time as he needed."
Together Raylene, Raymond and Johnny Ray had a good life. They made it by. Raymond was a good provider and Raylene's uncle was fairly well off with his various business interests so he sent them things they needed plus furnished them with a new 3 bedroom double wide trailer, completely paid for and got them a decent car to drive.
This "good life" would last until Johnny Ray was seven years old when tragedy struck. Raymond was killed in a plant accident and Raylene was devastated. Luckily Raylene's uncle Frank had convinced Raylene to get a 25,000 dollar insurance policy for both of them which Frank paid for and the money helped but only for a while.
About 14 months later the money began to dry up so Raylene had to get a job as a diner waitress. She was 26 at the time and looked like a twin for "Tammy Waynette" frizzy hair and all.
The job was long hours and hard work but not as hard as what she had to put up with from some of the men at the diner constantly coming on to her, pinching her butt and making all sorts of uncalled for and crude gestures. Ralph the owner of the diner was a burly "bear" of a man and protected Raylene with no strings attached.
Raylene's uncle Frank tried to get her to move to Ashville but she was independent and said she would stick it out. Lastly when Johnny Ray was nine another tragedy would strike that would rip Raylene's heart out.
Jimmy Ray would end up killing a man and would spend the next nine years in prison. It happened when he got mad at a fellow who had been picking on his mom and took the gun his daddy had and went over there to just scare him. The man threatened Johnny Ray and the gun just "went off" and the man was dead.
The man was not "a respectable member of the town" but neither was Raylene's family. What made matters worse was the fact that a "good ole boy" DA and judge who also were "pillars of the community" and church members were on a "holy crusade for law and justice" and decided to make an example of Johnny Ray.
Luckily for Raylene, her uncle Frank called in the best defense attorney from Raleigh and because under Tennessee law a juvenile could only stay in prison a max of 10 years or till he was 18, he was okay.
His lawyer petitioned the supreme court of Tennessee which was far more progressive and they ruled that Johnny Ray because of his age and other contributing factors could stay in a minimum security juvenile facility until he was 18.
This facility was brand new and had a school so he could learn and he also received counseling. After he turned 18 he had the option of serving in the army for three years or going to a prison run work release job training program. Either way once he turned 21 he was free. No parole or probation to worry with. He would truly be a "free man."
Johnny Ray would serve his time and his mother would visit once a month and write him constantly. They still maintained their bond believe or not and Johnny Ray would grow up from a quiet immature scrawny "goofy looking" 85 pound knobby knee clumsy kid at age nine to a handsome popular well developed, muscular, well rounded and well adjusted young gentleman at age 18.
At 18, Johnny Ray was 6'1" 185 pounds with muscular arms and body from lifting weights and from working on the farm that "honor dorm residents" were able to work at. He bailed hay, groomed and played with the horses, and plowed fields. It beat sitting in a cell all day and gave him an outlet.
When Johnny Ray turned 18 he decided to take the "Army route." He finished the top of his class in Prison schooling and actually received a high school diploma as well as took college courses and was one semester away from an associates in Computer Information Services.
Raylene was very proud of Johnny Ray and they were still as close as they had always been but now Raylene saw him more as a man and he saw her as a desirable woman and latent feelings of lust would begin to surface and instead of fighting them, they let them take their course.
In the service, Johnny Ray had more freedom and decided to earn his Bachelors degree. He still had to "act right" or he could be sent to adult prison. Johnny Ray had developed "street smarts." He knew how to work the system and he played by the rules because it got him to his ultimate goal: Freedom!!!
During these three years Raylene and Johnny Ray would share letters and by 9 months in, they had gone from G-rated to practically XXX. Since his mail was "his own" and not censored, Raylene sent him pictures of her in lingerie posing as well as "soft core" nudies.
By now Raylene had been in Ashville for five years and was working with her uncle in his newest booming venture, a commercial as well as consumer data recovery and software design firm known as "Jupiter Data Systems."
