This blog post has been authored by Stand Out Online Member Maria Allyn, Maria Allyn LLC
"Fairy tales can come true, they can happen to you. If you're young at heart..."Countless little girls were raised on pastel-colored stories where the white knight would save the beautiful, fragile damsel in distress. It really was such an easy sell. The thought that one invincible person, muscled and handsome, would take us into their arms and make everything so dreamy. Who wouldn't buy into that? All it takes is a quivering smile, hair that glistened in the moonlight and a rosy red pout.As we got older, we realized, sometimes the hard way, that fairy tales are indeed fantasy. Any worthy man wouldn't look twice at a woman who pouts while living off the kindness of strangers. Talk about an anchor. In "real life" those needy damsels would usually attract a partner who is hell-bent on fixing or controlling them.After …