There are mommy and daddy issues that can remain
suppressed in ones subconscious for many years while adversely effecting and
affecting your relationships with friends, family and co workers. These
repressed emotions, desires and longings become a part of your inner most
being…Your character.
Are they looking for love or looking for their mother or
father? A Grown Child will want to connect with a parental figure of some sort in order to
fill the void and compensate for the turbulent past relationships.
Most people learn how to deal and relate in
relationships from their parents or their upbringing. How their parents related
or did not relate can have a huge impact on the psyche of a child. Children who carry these issues into
adulthood, I call them “Grown Ass Children”…these are the adult sized men and
women that act their shoe size and not their age. They are looking not for love
but for a parent to come and save them or come to their aid.
QUICK BREAKDOWN
“Man Child”, a term invented by William Faulker,
is usually an adult who is very childlike or has a childish demeanor. A person
who is emotionally both simple and fragile, preferring but May not always need,
to have a parent type figure to look after them. Completely
incapable of making decisions regarding women, "manning up" when
appropriate or discussing anything maturely, man-children are becoming
increasingly more frequent.
Listening to K’ Michelle singing
about how one cannot raise a man. Man-children will have notable traits such as
thinking that they are somewhat different to other men because they have no
emotional baggage and will have not been in a serious relationship.
When
discussing important things, a man child will remain silent, pretend nothing is
wrong at the time and then once out of sight drop into a dead icy silence or
will give you the "rabbit caught in the headlights" look when
confronted.
Most grown ass children quick to blame others for their own mistakes, ignoring problems
and leaving them for someone else to “fix”.
However, man-children are tempting
challenge for women and more often than not older women will take a man child
under her wing as he will be impressed with her being “ experienced, mature, laid
back, cool and at ease”. A common characteristic, they tend to seek out
partners that will happily cook and clean for them and make their lives easier
in other ways,
K’
Michelle.
Can’t raise a man
“You can’t raise a man.
He’s
already grown what you gone do?
You
wonder why he acts like a boy?
It’s
cause he was not raise right before you.
Girl, you
ain’t never going to change nobody.
If he don’t
want to, you can’t make nobody…
you can’t
raise a man”
A man-child is not limited to men! There are women walking around with daddy
issues taking it out on the men in their lives and then wonder why they are
single.
GROWN CHILDREN
A person
who is "of age" but still has the emotional/mental capacity of a
child
RED FLAGS include, but are not necessarily
limited to:
·
Difficult childhoods
and/or not good relationships with parents
·
Whining/ Emotional
outburst
·
Angry/Resentful or
Bitter towards parents
·
Pattern of Unhealthy/Roller
Coaster and Toxic Relationships
·
Multiple partners/Many
Relationships at once
·
Not taking their
personal health and hygiene seriously
·
Socially awkward
·
Cannot accept blame,
criticism or responsibility
·
Emotional Instability/
Emotional ill-equipped
·
Pass the blame for
their own underdeveloped judgment
·
History/String of
Relationships that went from idealization to demonization/accepting no responsibility
in the demise of the relationship
·
Neediness
·
Denial
·
Pettiness
·
Addiction
·
Abandonment issues
·
Narcissism/Exaggerated
sense of entitlement
·
Violent/Controlling
·
Not "stepping up
to the plate" when it's their role to
·
Abusive (i.e. verbally mentally/emotionally
or physically)
·
Able to connect with
children, but only as another child, not as a father or a mother
·
Not to mention an
overall insecurity in whom he or she is as a man/woman
·
Unrealistic
Expectations of their mate or Demanding
Grown
ass children are searching for stability and connection. They are adult aged,
yet emotionally they have repressed and remained stagnant in a child-like mentality.
They are stuck somewhere in between. A difficult childhood breeds difficult an adulthood.
This can spill over into dysfunctional and unhealthy attachments leading to string
of roller coaster relationships (i.e. idealization to demonization).
We
all subconsciously repress emotions that are negative. It is a natural
response. Grown ass children have no ability to accept responsibility for their
behavior. Reading the Peter Pan Syndrome and The Wendy Dilemma, both by Dr. Dan
Kiley, I do not agree with everything yet I firmly believe personality,
character and social problems that stem from a dysfunctional childhood are on
point.
The Peter Pan Syndrome (PPS) describes men, who
are childlike in their relationships, their ability to handle responsibilities,
and their pursuit of pleasure. Being a real man doesn't mean
you sleep with 100 girls. It means you fight for one girl even when 99 others
are chasing you... “He’s a man because of his age; a
child because of his acts. The man wants your love, the child your pity. The
man yearns to be close, the child is afraid to be touched. If you look past his
pride, you’ll see his vulnerability. If you defy his boldness, you’ll feel his
fear” (p.3).
He asked, “Can I get to know you?”
My
response, “ONLY if you know yourself...”
Grown
ass children are socially and emotionally immature. Think about Kelly Bundy or Charlie
Sheen in Two in a Half Men, in real life being in a relationship with this type
of person is far less than charming, it is more like a nightmare for more
serious or mature minded individuals.
Grown
ass children are more self absorbed, self involved and less evolved. These are
people that are always on a quest for the next best thing, be it relationships,
sex, cars, electronics, or whatever hobby…they are never satisfied. When it
comes to relationships with a grown ass child, they will always find reasons it
is not working if it gets to deep. So if it is no longer working or no longer
satisfying to them, they bail…moving on to the next playmate (i.e. entitlement).
Men
and women alike can exhibit these behaviors, personality traits and character glitches
at different times in their lives, if any of them describe you or your partner
it may be time to re-evaluate your relationship. The person you are being
intimate with and building a relationship can be a dream or a nightmare,
depending on their own level of maturity and personal evolution. You can have a
child with someone, which is a beautiful thing, yet the other parent could be a
grown ass child and make your life a living hell. Are you dealing with someone
where you are constantly left to pick up the slack? Does your partner support
you emotionally? And make your life easy?
You
have to be as spiritually and emotionally attractive to me as you are
physically. When I’ve dated someone or try to get to know them on an intimate
level. I like to envision them
without the labels, job, career, the degrees, the cars, and the other hoopla…at the
end of the day…those things do not matter…what matters most is maturity,
integrity, and being earnest. I like to know who a person is at their core
because those are the things that are going to raise your children, or hold your hand when you are sick...not the
BMW. I like to see if they can still stand at all without the labels and crutches.
Relationships are supposed to enhance the quality of life, not diminish it.
A person can ONLY know me, if they know thyself.
Do
not be fooled into thinking you can help these grown ass children grow up! You
win some and you learn some. It is best you find your way to the nearest exit
of Never-Never Land or out of the Playground, and move on to a partner with the
emotional maturity to be in a healthy grown-up relationship.
Lady Logic reminder: Before you begin a relationship with someone, make sure that the relationship with yourself is where it needs to be.
Lady Logic reminder: Before you begin a relationship with someone, make sure that the relationship with yourself is where it needs to be.