Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Happily Never After: The Relationship Between Cinderella and Peter Pan

How can a relationship between Cinderella and Peter Pan workout?  Peter Pan refuses to grow up and be a Prince Charming. Cinderella wants her happily ever after, but there is always drama. Peter wants to hang out with the Lost Boys! Cinderella thinks that the Lost Boys are a waste of his time. The time he spends with those Boys, he could be out working. 
Peter Pan is frustrated because Cinderella has so many shoes that she loses her glass slippers. Peter doesn't want to get a job. He just wants to play basketball with the Lost Boys. Peter hates to work because that means he has to grow up. Peter is 35 years old. Instead, wants to be taken care of and is looking for a Wendy. Cinderella is 30 and has to scrub floors, cook, clean chimneys and is waiting on the day where her Prince will rescue her from her life of hardship. This is their story...
 
Cinderella is a victim of circumstance. She is a single woman, who just can't seem to get it together. No matter how hard she works, she just can't seem to find the life she wants. She is a dreamer who reads the latest romance novels and thinks her life should be a Romantic Comedy and that there is a Prince Charming out there looking for her. She holds on to the hope by reading her bible daily and her favorite scripture is the verse "... man who findeth a wife, findeth a good thing.." . She holds on to that word so much that she never goes anywhere. She stays home on her off days from grueling days at work. She cuts out pictures of wedding dresses from her favorite magazines and she knows just what her husband will look like. Handsome, Tall, and dark. She never goes out on dates, or anywhere for that matter. She just sits at home and waits for her Prince to rescue her from her boring mundane life.

Peter Pan is a victim of himself. He is a single man with lots of dreams but lacks the focus it takes to see them through. So he dabbles in a bit of everything. He calls himself a jack of all trades. His main focus is to have a good time. He used to be a high school basketball star, which is his only claim to fame. He loves to live close to home because people still remember him in his glory days. He is the type guy that loves to play the love game but never really wants to settle down, not for real. He just tells the women that just so he can get them in bed. Every relationship he gets into never really lasts as long as his high school sweetheart because that was when he thought he was at his best. Instead, he chases the past by hanging out with the Lost Boys reminiscing on the good old days and playing basketball at the local parks. Even though he is in his thirties, he still feels like he isn't ready to settle down into a committed relationship. He can't keep a job long enough to provide for a family because he hates to work. Peter's dream is to have family where he is the stay at home father so he can play games with his kids and never have to work. Peter is looking for a caretaker, someone who can take care of him. Peter wants a  mommy.

Well, one day Cinderella decides to take her co worker's advice and try online dating. Cinderella works so much that she has no time for dating. Well, she comes across Peter, who is also trying online dating, but only as a prank. He has no intentions of finding love, he just created a profile for shits and giggles! Actually one of the Lost Boys created the list for him. Well, they both get to talking, and Peter decides to go out with her because she has a great job with benefits. Meanwhile Cinderella is excited because Peter is very charming and handsome and he wants to spend time with her.
They meet, and Peter decides he likes what he sees! He then becomes interested in getting to know her better. They decide to start dating. Well, as time goes on Cinderella is really starting to fall for Peter, so she brings up the subject of commitment. After all, Cinderella is on a time clock. She wants to have three children before she turns thirty five. 
Well, at first, Peter is hesitant about getting in a relationship, but after a few more dates, he gives in. Besides, Cinderella is not giving up the goods unless he commits to her and he has been single for a while. So they decide to make it official and they started to live happily ever after up until she meets the lost boys. The Lost Boys are a group of guys that Peter hangs out with. They are his inner circle of close friends that he has known his entire life. They are also rowdy, obnoxious and rude. They had no manners and they did not show her any respect.
 Most of all, Cinderella wanted a Prince, and what she got was a frog whenever Peter would hang out with the Lost Boys. Cinderella brought it to Peter's attention but Peter loved the Boys. They were his friends and he didn't feel like he had to choose. Cinderella was confused because her Prince Charming was suppose to choose her over everyone else. But that didn't happen. The more time Peter spent with the Lost Boys, the further apart they became. All of a sudden Peter decides to call it quits because he realized that he really never wanted to be with Cinderella in the first place. He missed Wendy, his high school sweetheart and nothing or no one compared to her because Wendy loved the Lost Boys. She read them stories, washed their clothes and even played with them whenever she visited. Plus, Cinderella was too needy, expensive and sucked up all of his space!  So they parted ways. Peter  is still searching for his Wendy, and Cinderella  is still waiting on her Prince Charming.

Which character type are you, Cinderella, Wendy, Peter Pan or Prince Charming?