One of the more evident ways that Gwen stunted KatieLyn's maturing in self-confidence was through criticism disguised as help. And once KatieLyn ran back home in the middle of the night, Gwen gave her so much "help" that ... if the Brothers Grimm told the story, it would go something like this:
Once upon a time there was a woman who had long wished for a child to be her alter-ego. Finally the woman came to believe that the good Lord would fulfill her wish. As KatieLyn grew, she became 'the perfect child.' She got good grades, helped around the house, and caused her mother to receive many compliments.The Lesson
As KatieLyn would not stop growing and changed from a child into a young woman, her mother built an invisible wall around her. The mother sat in the gate, controlling who may go in and who may come out. They lived, if not in joy, at least in relative peace, like this for many years.
One day a handsome prince came to the place where the wall stood. He realized that ISPs (Internet Service Providers) had no difficulty spanning the wall and that KatieLyn had signed up for online dating. He saw the beautiful KatieLyn's profile, read about her goals and dreams, and fell in love with her. Even her mom said that it was a God-thing, at first; but little did he realize that such pretending was all part of the way that the woman used to manage her daughter.
KatieLyn and the prince fell in love and planned to be married. The plans were all made for a grand picnic feast. But the mother, jealous that the prince was "going to take her KatieLyn away," had spent months "helping" her daughter realize what could go wrong, often by picking fights with her to heighten her stress levels. Four days before the wedding, the mother achieved success. KatieLyn threw away God's plan for her life and ran back to her invisibly walled prison.
Rapunzel was kept in a tower. Cinderella was kept in a kitchen. Sleeping Beauty was trapped in a deep sleep. Snow White multi-tasked with all the curses was confined to a huntsman's cottage, had to cook and clean for dwarves, and was eventually tricked into a drugged sleep anyway. And Beauty, of "La Belle et la Bête," was trapped by lack of knowledge, and came close to losing her destined prince altogether because of the envious mind-games of her sisters.
The thing that all the fairy tales share is a young maiden and the evil forces that come against her to prevent her from coming of age and fulfilling her destiny.
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