When a woman acts like a baby in a relationship—soft, playful, vulnerable—it signals safety. She feels secure enough to surrender her strong, independent exterior because she knows her man can lead, protect, and provide stability.

But what if she’s just manipulative?

Do you also acknowledge that when a man feels absolutely 💯 safe, he also becomes a bit of a boy? Takes off the burden of performance the world thrust on him, & the veneer of superhuman toughness, and gets very playful and silly and boyish? Your sentiment suggest only women have access to the “baby” part of themselves. But men do too.

Femininity has nothing to do with being childlike. A feminine woman could carry herself like angelina jolie. A grown ass woman. Still feminine. Not buttercup from powerpuff girls. Unless we're talking inner child. Which is a human thing. Both sexes experience this when they feel safe.

You will say anything about a woman's behavior but “she needs therapy”. A woman who sees a significant other as a father figure and acts like a child has daddy issues. A woman who sees a man as a child and assumes a mother role has a hero complex and mother issues. Stop double-speaking and get help.

Oh F 😅

Can’t relate! Femininity is not inherently youthful. A woman is no less feminine than a girl. Furthermore, equating caring behavior with parenting is limiting at best. A partner is an equal, and I am no less feminine for feeling most at-ease in my adulthood. If “acting like a baby” is “not childish,” tell me: what is childish? Or does your philosophy collapse when you use words in an intellectually honest way?

What if your looking for an equal? In a world that teaches this binary logic from birth? What if I don’t want a substitute mother or another child to care for but someone to stand beside me and make shit happen? Is that just a pipe dream?

Not trying to be a dick or facetious, I’m genuinely curious as to your point of view. All of this coming from someone who feels chapters behind the rest of the world.

What does it feel like to be vulnerable?