Su Yinghuai always had a standard eight-toothed smile on her face - Lu Zhi spent ten years polishing the originally quiet literary girl into the all-around exquisite "Mrs. Lu". But no one knows that behind this perfect smile, there is learned helplessness that goes deep into the bone marrow, and the fear that it takes courage to even say "no".
Smile is her mask, virtuousness is her protective color, and "cannot make mistakes" is an iron law engraved in her bones and blood.
It wasn't until a moment of collapse late at night that she suddenly realized: Those "good wives" labels praised by everyone are just cloaks of learned helplessness; those "perfections" envied by others are just masks welded on the face by the original family and social disciplines.
This is Su Yinghuai's journey out of the cocoon: from "I must be perfect" to "I can be imperfect", from "survival to please" to "living for myself".
Tearing away the mask and facing the true self is the real growth. This article will analyze Su Yinghuai's five-act awakening epic to see how she broke free from the control that was as tight as a fishing line and found her lost true self.
Purpose: To explore perfectionism and learned helplessness, and encourage women to break free from discipline and accept their true selves.