Why You Don’t Choose Who You Love (Hidden Relationship Patterns)
Our maternal relationship is linked to our idea of the feminine. If our mother was someone optimistic, brave, strong or shrewd, the feminine will be something powerful to you. If our mother had a victimised, negative, impressionable character, the feminine will be something weak to you. Whether it was the woman or women you had as your first reference -the one who carried and gave birth to you, the one who nourished and raised you, the one you fell in love with, etc.- whichever that woman was, she will be your first contact with the feminine. They will become references. Thus, all your emotions and thoughts -feelings and ideas- will end up influencing you when shaping your defined idea of femininity, whether you are a woman or a man, this will accompany you for the rest of your life. It is enough for one of these first women to ignore or idolise you, for you to seek rejection or attention in every single one of those yet to come. That is to say, the constant search for the bond generated from that reference. If, as a man, your mother overprotected you, you will look for women who can overprotect you. Whatever reference your mother gave you, even abandonment itself. As a man, for example, you will provoke again and again the same feeling that confirms the reference, that is, abandonment. If my mother abandoned me, any woman can do it. The relationship you have with your mother, the idea you extract from that relationship, from the inherited feeling, will be how you look at women and consider the feminine. Nor is this a natural act, if by natural we understand something unprogrammed.