elle: March 31st is nothing more than a stall tactic. By April 1st, he'll think of something else. Maybe by the start of summer? No way is he going 2 days without using, he'd be sick. And his mom cannot acknowledge it because if she did, then she would somehow feel some sort of responsibility to "do something", so by simply denying it, she doesn't have to do anything at all. Everything is just peachy. A lot of pretending going on in that household. That's crazy-making, in and of itself.