Cinderella Solution

She places her jaded heart in a small begging bowl and kneels before him. He dispenses his affection like loose change - amusing himself with her look of gratitude. For a fleeting moment they both pretend an exchange of value has brought place. She remembers an occasion when he wanted her with passion. She remembers an occasion when each of them did tricks for her. She remembers who she was and the energy of seduction; the energy of youth, quite a face, sexuality and vitality. She dreamed dreams of all things possible. Needless to say the largest dream of echoes through her girl-child mind "I desire to be a bride ".She so vividly remembers her wedding, it absolutely was all she ever wanted and often thinks of it as her'princess day '.

Daddy called her Princess as he tucked her into Cinderella Solution at night. She believed she was his princess and never questioned his predictions of 1 day becoming a beautiful woman, falling madly in love and living happily ever after.

Just what a joke. Just what a great big fat lie. Was she really so deluded? Was it bad luck, bad judgment, bad choices or may be the dream for only'the others '. It probably never occurred to her that a Princess by definition must stay young and beautiful.

Cinderella probably started all of it and it absolutely was reinforced over and over in books, movies, conversations and culture.

As a kid she wondered about'Him'and played dress-up games with her friends. They certainly were all called Mrs. and prepared tea for when Mr. came home. They had bride dolls and baby dolls. They imagined and designed their future wedded bliss. He, was handsome, successful, rich and romantic.

Girls were not really anticipated to worry an excessive amount of with things like education or finance. Which was unless you're a'Plain Jane '. No, boys don't like girls if they're too smart anyway. Beauty is the key - beauty is everything. Beauty can be your ticket into'happily ever after '.

Happily ever after always had me a little Cinderella Solution. Most girls appeared to be very more comfortable with the story ending at happily ever after. It nagged at me a little - well actually it worried me a serious lot. I kind of perceived it to be always a little like death. It seemed if you ask me that whenever you got married your story finished. If happily ever after was so wonderful then why didn't it become another story; a straight better story?

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One more thing that actually confused me was that as a teenager we were all very obsessed with our looks and working our magic, but something seemed very, very strange. The married feamales in my town were anything but examples of happily ever after. I don't mean to be unkind, but these women really scared me. The men were neither princes nor charming.