I absolutely LOVE Ueshiba Riichi's style with this kinds of weird topics. Such as in Nazo no Kanojo X, they never explained these phenomenoms, in this case the flashbacks and in NnKX the drool bound.
It's so magical
This is nice.
I'm guessing that Minoru never actually loved his mom in that way, and his father wasn't trying to get him to like her mother, but Suzuki was trying to make Minoru realize how he could love