The 50th Law (with 50 Cent)

The Woman to Worship Him:
He’s driven and ambitious, but his life is
hard. It’s a harsh, unforgiving world out there, and it’s not easy to find
any comfort. He feels something missing in his life. Then along comes
a woman who is attentive to him, warm, and engaging. She seems to
admire him. He feels overwhelmingly drawn to her and her energy.
This is the woman to complete him, to help comfort him. But then, as
the relationship develops, she no longer seems quite so nice and
attentive. She certainly has stopped admiring him. He concludes that
she has deceived him or has changed. Such a betrayal makes him
angry.
This male projection generally stems from a particular type of
relationship with the mother—she adores her son and showers him

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with attention. Perhaps this is to compensate for never quite getting
what she wants from her husband. She fills the boy with confidence; he
becomes addicted to her attention and craves her warm, enveloping
presence, which is what she wants.
When he grows up, he is often quite ambitious, always trying to live
up to the expectations of his mother. He pushes himself hard. He
chooses a certain type of woman to pursue and then subtly positions
her to play the mother role—to comfort, adore, and pump up his ego.
In many instances, the woman will come to understand how he has
manipulated her into this role, and she will resent it. She will stop
being so soothing and reverential. He will blame her for changing, but
in fact he is the one projecting qualities that were never exactly there
and trying to make her conform to his expectations. The ensuing
breakup will be very painful for the man, because he has invested
energy from his earliest years and will feel this as abandonment from
the mother figure. Even if he is successful in getting the woman to play
the role, he himself will feel resentment at his dependency on her, the
same dependency and ambivalence he had toward his mother. He may
sabotage the relationship or withdraw. His anima has a sharp,
recriminating edge, always ready to complain and blame.
The man in this case must see the pattern of these relationships in
his life. What this should signal to him is that he needs to develop from
within more of the mothering qualities that he projects onto women.
He must see the nature of his ambition as stemming from his desire to
please his mother and live up to her expectations. He tends to drive
himself too hard. He must learn to comfort and soothe himself, to
withdraw from time to time and be satisfied with his accomplishments.
He needs to be able to care for himself. This will drastically improve
his relationships. He will give more, instead of waiting to be adored
and taken care of. He will relate to women as they are, and in the end
they will perhaps feel unconsciously impelled to provide more of the
comfort he needs, without being pushed into this.