Blake Robert Templeton maps how marriages get stuck when partners lock into single roles. Men often become Warriors, women become Queens or Warrior Princesses, but staying rigid in any role creates negative versions like the workhorse slave or emasculated servant. Fluid role-shifting keeps marriages from stagnating.
A lot of women, they start in what's called playful princess. So 5 years old to maybe even 18. She's a little girl and the girls get together and they like to play like the knight in shining armor is going to come save them or they're going to marry Barbie Ken doll or, you know, when the girl's in that phase, she's in what's called playful princess. Feminine. She's learning how to actually become She doesn't have all the responsibilities of life. She hasn't actually dealt with much in life, and she's looking for love. So Lover Prince, I haven't dealt with much either. I've been destined to marry the maiden. Both of them have never been time tested. How do you actually handle pressure? Who are you under pressure? When they actually get married, no one told them that they actually end up shifting roles. He normally shifts to Warrior, and she normally shifts to Warrior Princess if she goes to the workforce, and then Queen if she goes and stays at home with the kids. No one should stay one role. If you do, you then get locked into all the idiosyncrasies and the bad scenarios of that one role. In Warrior, he becomes the enemy's version, which is workhorse slave. If he gets stuck in Servant, he becomes the enemy's version, which is emasculated servant.
