06-16-2016, 04:40 PM
(06-16-2016, 04:12 PM)SargeMaximus Wrote:(06-16-2016, 02:27 PM)Shannon Wrote: No implication of incest intended. I'm talking about things like this.
Three of the last four women I have dated, when we got to a certain point, started trying to choose what clothes I would wear for the day. They would go in my closet, pick out pants and a shirt, and lay them on my bed. Just like my mother used to do when I was 6.
And in every case, if they happened to pick out my favorite shirt or whatever, and I actually chose to wear what they picked out instead of admonishing them and choosing something else, they later were caught bragging to another female about how they chose my clothes etc. and had control of me. Had me "whipped", as one of them put it. Another called it "domesticated".
The thing is, it's a subtle manipulation strategy. She chooses the clothes, and you wear them, and she's got the power over what you are wearing. Seems minor, but it's a step in the domestication process that females will put a man through if they like him. It's a shit test. "If he's actually the man he says he is, he'll choose to wear something he chose for himself." And whenever I have chosen to simply observe and play along, they do this process where they subtly lead me through a series of steps like that until I have no control of anything. She's choosing the clothes, she's choosing what I buy, she's choosing where we eat out, she's choosing how the money is spent, she is choosing everything. She has all the power, and control, and makes all the decisions for you.
And if you let her go down this path, it always ends the same way. Even if you try to stop it after she's gotten you most of the way there. It always ends in a relationship that fails.
Mothering of a grown man is a way of taking control by making the man too comfortable, and removing his need to be a man. It's also a shit test to see if he really is a man, and will maintain his manhood in the face of this opportunity to be lazy and allow himself to be treated like a child.
No adult man needs a mommy.
Ok fair enough but I disagree about the manipulation if you would have chosen the piece of clothing (or whatever) already. Because if you start acting out just to prove you are a man, you are more susceptible to manipulation than ever (and not very masculine being all reactive all the time).
Imo, a real man does what he wants regardless. If someone wants to go ahead of me and claim they're choosing where I step, that's their problem. And sooner or later they (and anyone else) will realize that you're doing what you want not what others are telling you to.
I agree with you. And if it were just a single incident, that would work. But it's a pattern of behavior, and they like to do things like choose what they know you were likely to choose already. So you have to be very careful.
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