I didn't realize that My Fair Lady was such a long movie!

I liked it too J, and, like you, I found Professor Higgins tiresome. I wished Eliza could have found someone better. It's an example of a nice woman making a poor choice because of relationships.

Kohlberg found six stages of moral development from studying boys at a boys school in Eastern US. He found that the boys fit into a bell curve (he was a psychologist) of pre-conventional (few people) of doing things primarily because of fear or greed, conventional (most people) of doing things primarily because of pride or popularity, and post conventional (few people again) of doing things primarily because of logic or love.

He tried the same study on girls in a girls school.

No luck. They went all over the map and fluctuated all the time. Kohlberg eventually said that girls make decisions differently than boys. He noted that relationships play a key role.

I think that's why Eliza came back to professor Higgins even though he didn't come close to deserving her affection. She loved him.

Oh that somehow my daughters could fall in love with good men! Sometimes I wish we practiced arranged marriages like they did in the old days.