are there any specific childhood factors linked to submissiveness (sexually and otherwise)?

Question

i know psychiatry can be vague and random, but i assume there are some theories on specific contributing factors.

Answer 1

I wish I knew. I'd tend to agree about the abuse thing. I was abused as a child and I am often very submissive and I avoid conflict when I can. Sometimes maybe it could be a strong/strict father or father figure possibly?

Answer 2

It is interesting to hear that other people say abuse makes one submissive because: I have a friend who's parents yelled a lot, etc, and she is more dominant-sometimes sadistic even, and fights back when she needs to.
So I think that oftentimes children turn out like their parents.
My parents are more quiet, especially my mother. She is protective and quiet and it downright annoys me. However I found that that is probably why I am quiet, and I suppose submissive.

Answer 3

Yes, the usual culprit, during childhood, is a form of abuse named "invalidation." It's kinda like brain-washing, where a persons feelings gets so ignored or dismissed that they start believing other people more than themselves. The cycle starts there.

Answer 4

sexual abuse as a child or a father who was abusive to a mother could make girls more likely to end up in bad relationships of thier own....thier used to the men in thier lives dominating them or those they see

Answer 5

Yes! I have read that when the mother is domineering....bitta....the son comes out pretty messed up when it comes to his relationships.
He has problems in the bed & is pretty much a simpering, wimpering fool!! Run from a mamma's boy!!