I'm bumping this thread because I just saw the movie "Tangled". Whoever wrote the script for the woman who stole Rapunzel from her parents really did their homework. She posed as Rapunzel's "mother" and was just horrid to her...in terms of the Circle of Security, I had the "other" kind of mother, the kind where I was not encouraged to return...I did not have the "safe haven"...producing the avoidant type of child...this "mother" in the movie was the other kind...the kind who keeps the child enmeshed and dependent in order to get her own needs met...the kind who does not allow the child to go out exploring, does not serve as the child's "secure base"...this character was so awful, it almost made me grateful that my mother was "just" disconnected...she kept making "jokes" to Rapunzel that were really putdowns...and she kept singing this song about "Mother knows best" that just made me shudder...has anyone else seen the movie?

And yes, I know I must be thinking too much about therapy when I'm analyzing the characters in Disney movies

SG