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I don’t begrudge Walt Disney his success at having
created “The Happiest Place on Earth.” Growing up in Southern California, we made annual
pilgrimmages to Disneyland, which was always a treat. However, I now take issue with an
aspect of Walt’s world that I believe severely affects adult singles who want to create a life
partner relationship.
I can bet that anyone who grew up in the United States during the last 40 years saw either
or all of the Disney-animated movies “Cinderella,” “Sleeping Beauty” and “Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs.” And you probably saw each of them more than once (like me). Well, I contend
that repeated viewings of these films during a female’s formative years creates “The Prince
Charming Myth.” This is actually a set of unrealistic and unattainable relationship myths that
single women, and men, carry around as adults that prevent them from consciously dating.
The myth inculcates thinking like this: if a woman is beautiful and kind, then her future
handsome and kind husband will appear (actually rescue her), they will instantly fall in love, and
they will marry. All without any effort whatsoever!
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Unfortunately, as most adult men and women have discovered, finding and creating a
real life partner relationship doesn’t work like that. And adult men and women may even have to
undergo some major UNDOING of these unconsciously perpetrated myths in order to now date in
more conscious ways.
Hopefully, you have worked hard to dispel some of the dating and relationship myths that
you've heard over the years so that you won't get trapped in what I call “an alternate reality.” I
talk more about this problem when I answer readers’ questions in this week’s Focused Points
email newsletter. Make sure you have a subscription! (If not, go to the “Contact Us” page and
sign up!)
“And they lived happily ever after?” Don't get me started.
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Posted by: Janice on Friday, January 30, 2004 - 06:00 PM
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