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Is a strong woman really behind every powerful man?

January 13, 2008

They say: “Behind each strong man is a woman.” The real quote is “Behind every powerful man is a strong woman”. Is this woman really strong? We interpret: she is strong! She strengthens him (from behind?). What is behind a weak man? Certainly we can also say: Behind each weak man resides a weak woman. Therefore both are weak: What can come out of this? What does “strong” mean? We interpret the following: successful, powerful, strong will, assertive; and the other way around “weak” would assertively mean: failure, inefficiency, and breakdown. Success and failure can be determined purely technically (free of judgment) leaving open if this is meant as good or bad. Because not each failure is logically “bad” and not all that is “weak” is also “bad”.”Woman” is in our use of language neutral and can mean: partner, girlfriend, and mother. It is not determined if this woman (behind a strong man) is strong in a good or bad sense. We generally assume this means a woman with special good character qualities. She totally lives for this man. But “strong” can also mean in a bad sense and therefore we can interpret the “woman” behind this man being negative. Therefore this woman behind this strong man can also be the permanently painful pierce forcing the man to become stronger and stronger and to perform more and more “strength” - as a tyrant, commander, corporate manager, politician, scientist, or churchman. The variations of the game are enormously diverse and mostly very subtle.

A strong man mostly has a strong will. Now, if this woman behind the man says and demonstrates him every day “I do what I want” then she forces the man to become stronger and stronger in his will, or he becomes weaker and weaker and at the end he fails. Or this woman is especially weak in her will and forces the man to develop more and more will power. A woman can also demonstrate strength by lamenting, moaning, suffering, or whatever. One can be strong in refusing (rejecting) love and spirit.

If with “woman” one means the man’s real mother, then the man is strong through his own neurosis as a mother’s boy or as victim of a mother unable to love. Such strength must end catastrophically one day and in the long this will have destructive consequences in the family and collective environment. If such a “strong man” overcomes his neurosis, he will be really strong morally in a positive sense.

We conclude from our game with the words with this saying: The quality of the inner relationship between a strong man and his woman (a woman) “behind” essentially determine his strength and weaknesses, his success and failure, his morality and amorality, his destructive and constructive effects on his personal and collective environment within his professional field.

Interpreted in another way we can say: Not just strong men make wars, exploit resources, and repress folks, or dominate complete human communities economically, mentally, and religiously, but also the “strong” women “behind” (these men). Their men are only the executive figures. If a man performs something outstanding good for the human community, then behind there may also be a woman with outstanding good personality traits, especially one with the ability to love genuinely.

Our saying does not allow the conclusion that a “strong” man can only be strong because a woman is “behind”. But we think: a man can also be strong in a good sense simply from his genuine soul and with his own effort in building up his character and his personality. A woman can support these qualities or she can destroy them - in both ways she can be “strong” behind him.

In the essence this means: The state of the earth with all its variations of environmental destruction and the huge problems of humanity, including all wars, reflect not only the strong world of men, but also the grade of inability to love and the spiritlessness of the women “behind” them.

Is the balance in a relationship not given between man and woman, and with that between masculinity and femininity (as qualities), soul and life, spirit and intelligence, drive and love, then this always has consequences, individually and collectively, psychologically and socially, concerning health and society. The advice to all women wanting to have or already have a strong man: Look in the mirror!

Written by Dr. Ed · Filed Under Love & Relationship 

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