"I'm fairly certain that your mother is one of those mothers that operates on the idea that there is no woman out there that's good enough for her darling son. The fact that we got married in Vegas will only enforce the belief that I'm some kind of siren harlot that did something awful to you. Add in the rings and the fact that I'm twenty years younger than you are and it won't matter how much she thought she liked me before. Clay, the woman will dislike me. I'm going to be hated amongst all her friends, your friends..."

Annie had a legitimate fear that that section of his life was something she'd never fit into.