She is able to love her man and her mom. Actually, in class I hadn't thought of the fact that a female can love both her mother and her man, but it makes sense. I think it has something to do with the way women create relationships.
Females have a web of relationships while men are more narrow.
As I am the only man in this class, I somehow feel obliged to respond to your message. I don't know if there has been any research on the subject, but my personal experience prevents me from accepting your generalization about how men create relationships. Let's take what you say about women to begin with. I have also met women that loved their husbands so much, that they were willing to violate everybody else's rights in order to attend to their husbands' needs. This brings me to Dr. Coat's thought.