The Cinderella complex was first described by Colette Dowling, who wrote a book on women's fear of independence, as an unconscious desire to be taken care of by others. The complex is said to become more apparent as a person grows older. Dowling attempts to define women as being motivated by an unconscious desire to be taken care of as a fear of independence termed "Cinderella complex". An important aspect of the work can be defined as identifying an aspect of a larger phenomenon as to why women choose to stay in dysfunctional relationships. This phenomenon can be defined as a syndrome characterized by a series of specific motivations or causes. Dowling identifies only one motivation, while the syndrome is in fact [citation needed] a combination of many motivations, which are in themselves characteristics that make up a complex.
This complex is named after the fairy tale character Cinderella. It is based on the idea of femininity portrayed in that story, where a woman is beautiful, graceful, polite, supportive, hardworking, independent, and maligned by the females of her society, but she is not capable of changing her situations with her own actions and must be helped by an outside force, usually a male (i.e. the Prince).
There is more complexity to this 'syndrome' as supposedly determined by psychobabble experts. Why a woman for instance constantly recreates dysfunctional relationships and or searches them out, often relying on the girlfriends (affected and or infected females pushing the same agenda) for approval to engage (the prince) or disengage him to justify that she makes poor choices in saviours 'not in her behaviour'.
Another aspect is the 'want' to get way from the girls who keep leading her away from her real goals. The girls (undesirable females) psychologically keep her tied to the ugliness type by supporting however miserable, and therefore unable to pursue what she truly wants.
Again there are aspects to the syndrome; but...
Do you know women like this? Do you think this applies to many women? For guys, are you the saviour type, wanting to saving cindy from herself?
lifeisadreamMexi Go, Mexico State Mexico16,713 posts
BB_snickers: .....
This complex is named after the fairy tale character Cinderella. It is based on the idea of femininity portrayed in that story, where a woman is
beautiful, yes graceful, yes polite, some supportive, some hardworking, very independent, very
and maligned by the females of her society, it does not matter to me.....
BB_snickers: ..... but she is not capable of changing her situations with her own actions and must be helped by an outside force, usually a male (i.e. the Prince).....
I do not need to change mny situation (which means I do not need any help not even from a prince) and I would prefer the frog to-become-a.price that talks instead, it might be more fun.
lifeisadream: I do not need to change mny situation (which means I do not need any help not even from a prince) and I would prefer the frog to-become-a.price that talks instead, it might be more fun.
jac379pontyclun, South Glamorgan, Wales UK12,293 posts
BB_snickers: Wikipedia:
The Cinderella complex was first described by Colette Dowling, who wrote a book on women's fear of independence, as an unconscious desire to be taken care of by others. The complex is said to become more apparent as a person grows older. Dowling attempts to define women as being motivated by an unconscious desire to be taken care of as a fear of independence termed "Cinderella complex". An important aspect of the work can be defined as identifying an aspect of a larger phenomenon as to why women choose to stay in dysfunctional relationships. This phenomenon can be defined as a syndrome characterized by a series of specific motivations or causes. Dowling identifies only one motivation, while the syndrome is in fact [citation needed] a combination of many motivations, which are in themselves characteristics that make up a complex.
This complex is named after the fairy tale character Cinderella. It is based on the idea of femininity portrayed in that story, where a woman is beautiful, graceful, polite, supportive, hardworking, independent, and maligned by the females of her society, but she is not capable of changing her situations with her own actions and must be helped by an outside force, usually a male (i.e. the Prince).
There is more complexity to this 'syndrome' as supposedly determined by psychobabble experts. Why a woman for instance constantly recreates dysfunctional relationships and or searches them out, often relying on the girlfriends (affected and or infected females pushing the same agenda) for approval to engage (the prince) or disengage him to justify that she makes poor choices in saviours 'not in her behaviour'.
Another aspect is the 'want' to get way from the girls who keep leading her away from her real goals. The girls (undesirable females) psychologically keep her tied to the ugliness type by supporting however miserable, and therefore unable to pursue what she truly wants.
Again there are aspects to the syndrome; but...
Do you know women like this? Do you think this applies to many women? For guys, are you the saviour type, wanting to saving cindy from herself?
I think this is what boys like yourself would like to believe, so you have something, anything, to feel superior about.
Inner strength is quite different from this, however.
The Cinderella complex was first described by Colette Dowling, who wrote a book on women's fear of independence, as an unconscious desire to be taken care of by others. The complex is said to become more apparent as a person grows older. Dowling attempts to define women as being motivated by an unconscious desire to be taken care of as a fear of independence termed "Cinderella complex". An important aspect of the work can be defined as identifying an aspect of a larger phenomenon as to why women choose to stay in dysfunctional relationships. This phenomenon can be defined as a syndrome characterized by a series of specific motivations or causes. Dowling identifies only one motivation, while the syndrome is in fact [citation needed] a combination of many motivations, which are in themselves characteristics that make up a complex.
This complex is named after the fairy tale character Cinderella. It is based on the idea of femininity portrayed in that story, where a woman is beautiful, graceful, polite, supportive, hardworking, independent, and maligned by the females of her society, but she is not capable of changing her situations with her own actions and must be helped by an outside force, usually a male (i.e. the Prince).
There is more complexity to this 'syndrome' as supposedly determined by psychobabble experts. Why a woman for instance constantly recreates dysfunctional relationships and or searches them out, often relying on the girlfriends (affected and or infected females pushing the same agenda) for approval to engage (the prince) or disengage him to justify that she makes poor choices in saviours 'not in her behaviour'.
Another aspect is the 'want' to get way from the girls who keep leading her away from her real goals. The girls (undesirable females) psychologically keep her tied to the ugliness type by supporting however miserable, and therefore unable to pursue what she truly wants.
Again there are aspects to the syndrome; but...
Do you know women like this? Do you think this applies to many women? For guys, are you the saviour type, wanting to saving cindy from herself?
Do you know women like this? / NO, and I don't want to know. Do you think this applies to many women? / no, not many. as much as men i suppose. men and women are different physically. but fundamentally they are the same.
For guys, are you the saviour type, wanting to saving cindy from herself - are you nuts or beta ?
We're not islands. Dependency is not good or healthy, neither is sick independence. So for me, it is a balance - Interdependence is the choice.
We're not islands. Dependency is not good or healthy, neither is sick independence. So for me, it is a balance - Interdependence is the choice.
Very well put. Couldn't agree more. I love my independence but company is nice too sometimes. And we depend on trades-people for things we can't do ourselves (unless you're multi gifted and can do everything!), like plumbing, electrics etc.
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The Cinderella complex was first described by Colette Dowling, who wrote a book on women's fear of independence, as an unconscious desire to be taken care of by others. The complex is said to become more apparent as a person grows older.
Dowling attempts to define women as being motivated by an unconscious desire to be taken care of as a fear of independence termed "Cinderella complex". An important aspect of the work can be defined as identifying an aspect of a larger phenomenon as to why women choose to stay in dysfunctional relationships.
This phenomenon can be defined as a syndrome characterized by a series of specific motivations or causes. Dowling identifies only one motivation, while the syndrome is in fact [citation needed] a combination of many motivations, which are in themselves characteristics that make up a complex.
This complex is named after the fairy tale character Cinderella. It is based on the idea of femininity portrayed in that story, where a woman is beautiful, graceful, polite, supportive, hardworking, independent, and maligned by the females of her society, but she is not capable of changing her situations with her own actions and must be helped by an outside force, usually a male (i.e. the Prince).
There is more complexity to this 'syndrome' as supposedly determined by psychobabble experts. Why a woman for instance constantly recreates dysfunctional relationships and or searches them out, often relying on the girlfriends (affected and or infected females pushing the same agenda) for approval to engage (the prince) or disengage him to justify that she makes poor choices in saviours 'not in her behaviour'.
Another aspect is the 'want' to get way from the girls who keep leading her away from her real goals. The girls (undesirable females) psychologically keep her tied to the ugliness type by supporting however miserable, and therefore unable to pursue what she truly wants.
Again there are aspects to the syndrome; but...
Do you know women like this? Do you think this applies to many women? For guys, are you the saviour type, wanting to saving cindy from herself?