[quote]SkyzykS wrote:
My oldest niece is like this. She makes the money, owns the house, and hands out the asskickings. She choses men based on her role in the house, not theirs. She likes her guys to be less than average intelligence, chemically dependent, marginally employed, and therefore- easy to manipulate.
I called her on it as cowardice. She does not like to have her authority challenged, and has created a scenario that allows her to completely control her boyfriends, and if they do try to challenge her in any way, she has a number of means to respond including violence.
Her choices and actions look exactly like the ones her mom (my sis) made when she was raising her. It’s as if she is recreating a comfort zone of sorts according to what she saw as normal.
I see it as very unhealthy and lacking in a balanced perspective of what constitutes a healthy relationship. There is a whole assload of dysfunction happening there, but until the consequences of her actions outweigh the reward she seems to get from the situation, she isn’t going to change.[/quote]
That seems like a life I would not want to have. It is like the cycle of violence in abusive homes.