Its a very hard line for parents to find the thing that would benefit what the children want and needs. She might think that with the jobs, she can offer him money and career opportunities for him to succeed. Unfortunately she failed to be there as often as she would like. It was obvious that she does want and did try to do so (Maybe bringing Yuu into the same career as her so that they would be together more), but you have to remember that she was a single mom. No reveal on the dad.
I respect your decision for not liking the mother, but I hope this clarifies that we can understand her without necessarily forgive her (Yet).
Thank you, I appreciate the response and trying to provide a different perspective.
I think my issue with it is there are many moments where the manga try to underwhelm the mom's toxicity by framing it as yuu not really knowing what his mom was really like, and therefore not understanding why his relationship with his mom was like that. But that shouldn't be his responsibility. Its a parent-child relationship, it falls on the parent to nuture their children, its not the child who should be the one trying to nuture it, they're suppose to be the learning from the parent. I went back to chapter 1 to see what the mom is like(i think there is another chapter where we hear from mom but i don't remember). my main issue is that she really doesn't put any effort into helping yuu. And yea, this is from yuu's persepctive, so maybe we'll get a chapter later on finally seeing things from the mom's side, but as of now, you can argue that she really hasn't put in any effort for being there for yuu untill her passing. yea yuu said he did distance himself from his mom, but we don't ever see the mom try to be there for him really. Again maybe there was a chapter like that and i don't remember or we just haven't gotten there yet but still.
The other thing was how in the hospital, when yuu monalouge how the mom wanted that same kind fo family relationship as well, we never see her attempt to do that with yuu, like i said above, that shouldn't be yuu's responsibilty (or at least majority responsibilty), that should be on the mom's, but we never saw any of that.
She might think that with the jobs, she can offer him money and career opportunities for him to succeed.
i see what you mean, ig thats the trophe of parent wanting their child to their successor and putting pressure on the child, which is very unhealthy. Yea i do hope we get an answer about his dad or have an arc where we will look through the mom's persepctive.
Ig my issue is that it feel like it setting to be where maybe in the end, there is going to be a moment where yuu thanks his mom for his relationship with the sisters. If it does that, im going to dissapointed because that credit should not go to the mom, yea she got yuu into that household, but nuturing the relationship with the sisters was all on yuu.
To be clear, I do understand the mom, as someone who has dealt with very toxic family, I understand what kind of person she is, I understand her, but there is a clear line between understanding her and forgiving her, there hasn't enough stuff to forgive her.
Thank you for reading, apologizes for any misspellings, im just trying to give my reasonings, I have no problems with anyone who disagrees with me, I hope everyone is able express their thoughts openly without any hate.