It took Tre Welch about an hour to teach his mother Lorenda a TikTok dance. His girlfriend Abbey England — his partner since high school, and the mother of his child — watched the whole thing from the sidelines. That was the opening scene of I Love a Mama’s Boy Season 3, Episode 1, “He Belongs to Me,” which aired June 19, 2022. The show never needed another scene to explain this triangle.
An Hour to Teach Mom a Dance, Nothing Left for Abbey
The premiere recap from TV Shows Ace spelled out the dynamic in one line: Tre could teach Lorenda a dance in an hour, and she would just let loose — something he valued. ScreenRant put it even more bluntly, noting that Lorenda and Tre spent more time TikToking and hanging out than Tre spent with Abbey. The videos were the relationship’s real date nights, and Abbey was never invited.
The geography made it worse. Tre had bought the house he grew up in and moved his mother into the house directly behind his own, according to reports — so his dance partner was always one backyard away. The same premiere stretch gave Tre a second date with his mother: a Valentine’s Day dinner that doubled as Lorenda’s birthday, while Abbey stayed home — the Valentine’s dinner without Abbey in every sense.
From the Sidelines to ‘Back Off’
Abbey did not stay quiet. In Episode 4, “Sneaky Lil’ Snake,” she told Lorenda to back off. Episode 6 brought a talk about “temporary boundaries” that changed nothing. By Episode 9, Tre admitted on camera that he was a mama’s boy, and that giving his mother space was “going to ruin some things.” His own verdict on a week with less Lorenda around: “There’s really no difference.”
Abbey’s breaking point arrived in that same episode. “I’ve had a lot of time to think about my relationship with Tre because Lorenda’s not around like she used to be, but he’s gotten so involved with his mom and the videos that there’s no attention on me,” she said — then packed her bags and moved in with her own mother. Among the couples who split first, Tre and Abbey’s exit was the most predictable one: the premiere had already shown us how it would end.
The Videos Didn’t Stop — They Made Him Famous
Here is the twist nobody in that kitchen could have predicted: the videos outlived the relationship. Tre Welch is now the influencer @juicecupbox, with more than 2.5 million followers across Instagram and TikTok, and his comedy videos still regularly feature Lorenda. In September 2025, according to reports, he welcomed his third child, daughter Steelie Renz. The hobby that cost him Abbey became his living, and Tre still sits near the bottom of every ranking of the show’s most hopeless sons — except now the videos pay.
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Rewatch that first scene and it stops looking cute. Tre is performing, Lorenda is applauding, and Abbey is the audience — the exact seating chart of the whole relationship. Tre had even declared on camera that Lorenda was the “queen of his life.” When Tre told Lorenda about the split, she said the couple had “no connection,” and fans fired back that she had never given them a chance to build one. The dance was not the cause of the breakup. It was the rehearsal for it: sixty seconds that showed everyone, including Abbey, exactly where she stood.
The woman dancing next to Tre is still his mother. Abbey is gone, co-parenting their young son across a boundary Lorenda never respected. So here is the question the fandom still fights over: if Tre posted one more dance video tomorrow — this time with Abbey in the frame instead of on the sidelines — would she even pick up the phone?
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