This will not be a happy ending post. This is truth as I have experienced it, as closely as I can recall it, in my experience.
We are all conditioned to feel absolute sympathy for Cinderella. After all, horrible mother figure, entitled and domineering siblings. And, since mother was a "step" mother, she wasn't even a real mom.
Horrible! every inch of the way. Agreed?!! Honestly! How could ANYONE allow such a thing to happen to another human being?
As I recall from the deeper depths of my aged memory, my then girlfriend, eventual wife, bearer of our three children, used this victim card from the very beginning.
Before she moved into my apartment, her stories of abuse received from her mother, were endless. Of course, being the naive, ignorant patsy I was, I drank it all in, and felt so sorry for the life of this fellow human being, that I NEEDED to do something to remedy the situation.
I have had many different jobs. Alot of them related to custodial duties (mopping floors, cleaning toilets, emptying trash cans, etc) My response, when I see a full trash can, dirty floors, even a dirty toilet ... is to resolve the issue. When at home ... my Spidey Sense goes off, and I must react. Empty that trash can, clean that toilet, wash those dishes, etc.
Life has taught me though, that, apparently, life experiences in such things, do NOT apply to Cinderella.
My now ex-wife, and our daughter, both share the same response.
If you see something that needs to be cleaned up? Call for the butler. If there is no butler? Then you are free to ignore the situation at hand.
Only God knows the heart of a person. So I tread carefully here, so as to NOT judge another. There is a saying that: Actions Speak Louder Than Words.
I am as much a failure in this regard, as any other.
However, if I am told that "I had to clean the entire house every Sunday" or some other strenuous duty, I accept that as fact.
The issue of disbelief comes about when, the "house" is very unkempt and the sink is full of dishes, and the laundry is piled high ... that Cinderella needs to be somewhere else, immediately, taxi'd there, ASAP.
This is Cinderella's justification ... this is where fantasy meets reality
She is justified in doing NOTHING! Because she was so mistreated under the conditions she was living under, that having her perform those same actions she was "forced" to perform unwillingly ... she should never have to perform them again.
So Cinderella is TOTALLY justified in doing absolutely NOTHING, when she sees dishes in the sink (which SHE was the creator of), laundry blocking the hallway (HER laundry) and a multiple spots of pet waste remnants everywhere (for her pet) ...
That we are to somehow bow and genuflect to Cinderella ... Questioning her back story? ... One can't help but question whether ... she has been lying to us, or playing the victim card so well ... that we honestly don't know the truth behind it all.
