Client, 50 years old. He cannot build his personal life: neither his beloved nor his child. During the consultation, an accidentally dropped phrase: “Before her death, her sick mother traveled across the city to the place of her first date with her lover... And it was not my dad!” It turns out that she broke up with him because of a banal quarrel: she wanted revenge and married him client's father. She never loved her father: he died early - her heart couldn’t stand it, and her mother was sick with some strange disease all her life - she couldn’t sleep. The hypothesis about the client’s identification is confirmed in the arrangement: the client plays someone else’s role all his life: he replaces the mother of her lover. Is it a lot or a little for a person to sacrifice his real life for the sake of the person closest to him - his mother? The son became a “psychological lover” - such a paradox! Three, not counting the beloved himself, distorted, loveless lives! And none of the participants in this life drama even suspects what entanglements they are caught in. Where could the mother put her strong feelings, which did not weaken even in the face of severe illness and physical suffering? The client's unconscious willingness to alleviate his mother's suffering resulted from identification with her lover. And the result: an unhappy personal fate…