Ok, I am going to take up for the boyfriend.  I think it is the mother's fault.  She is alone and has probably manipulated him for his entire life.  She has guilt tripped him into being her little pet monkey, and that is sickening.  He doesn't know any better and has been raised to feel like he is all she's got. Not that I know them or anything (ha ha), but I would assume that the divorce was bitter and she used him as leverage anytime she could with the Dad, seeing as how she still does and he is 25 YEARS OLD!  She is playing him like a fiddle and she needs to get a life!!!  Get out while you can.  Maybe you can enlighten him at somepoint if you decide to try to be his friend.  They both need to see a therapist.  
 
After you pass the bar, you will be the hottest single lawyer in town and maybe you can be her next exhusband's divorce attorney!  Wouldn't that be sweet revenge