Thank you (for this comment and your clear enthusiasm)!

This fic is Exibit A of why my own mom always warned me to marry an orphan.

*cracks up* Your mum is clearly a wise woman. And you're right: if it was Angela, there would have been a well-timed "accident".

And her telling Mohinder he shouldn't care that much for Molly. I was muttering 'Bitch, that hands off unemotional attitude is why your son is so messed up already! Chandra fucked him over royally in the parenting department and you want Mohinder to do the same thing!'

Oh my god, yes. Mohinder and his issues. A lot of that could have been fixed with more hugs in his childhood.

However, I think it's believable that someone who looks at her own son and thinks very well of him (and I have no doubt that she thinks the world of Mohinder, his willingness to commit notwithstanding) and who complicitly agreed with Chandra keeping Mohinder at a distance (without telling him why until after Chandra's death), probably doesn't see anything wrong with that style of "independent" parenting.

Matt, on the other hand, is definitely a hands-on, round-the-clock, whatever-Molly-needs kind of parent (and kind of partner, I suspect). And Mohinder only needs the slightest of encouragements to be that type of parent as well.

When she asked Matt if he'd ever been to college, I was like an audience member at Montel: 'Oh no she di'dnt!!!!'

Hee! You know, I'm imagining that with a head-flick and a quck snap of the fingers.

But they made it throught he trial by fire and maybe in a decade or so, Ma Suresh might possibly be able to concede that Matt is kind of sort of a little bit good enough for her son.

Well, I think she trusts Matt to look out for Mohinder by the end of it, and that's a big step forward.