Underneath the poised, self-confident facade, the Capricorn woman fears not finding the "right" relationship. Serious, insecure and substantial as a person, she deeply desires the perfect connection. The problem is that she often doesn't have it with herself.
    Capricorn women tend to be hard on themselves and soft on the men they fall in love with. Along the way, a great deal of pride permits her enough poise to pretend that she is totally above pain. However, in truth, she sees her flaws long before her strong points. This motivates her all the more to exercise greater self-control.
    Capricorn women keep plastic surgeons in Cadillacs and fitness centers thriving. Deep inside, this woman does not feel desirable unless she has won a war with her imperfections. Given this strategy, the imperfections don't stand a chance. For fully armed and prepared for combat, she enters fighting. Capricorn women work twice as hard when they want something. With this philosophy, though, they often confuse love with work.
    In the initial stages of a serious involvement the Capricorn woman is overly alert to rejection signals and not secure enough to see beyond potential pain. Because of such a highly developed fear factor, the Capricorn woman tends to be a late bloomer with regard to love.
    That does not mean that she lacks attention, popularity or sufficient suitors. Far from it. However, her choice for the casting of the central character can be quite another thing. And frequently it is problematic, since she tends to snub men who are very nice people and tends to zero in on desperados. Successful as always, she thus brings to bear a self-fulfilling prophecy of pain. Therefore, for many Capricorn women, love before thirty is a learning experience that they would very much prefer to forget.
    No fool, the Capricorn woman never repeats her basic life lessons. These often have to do with the power of her choice. Her greatest challenge comes in staying open. For the hurt that can arise from surrendering to the wrong person can be substantial enough to make her close the door to feeling forever.
    When mature, she is less superficially self-conscious and more aware of herself as a person of depth and dimension. At this point, she lives less from defense and more from pure feeling. This honesty, which is honorable, is also powerful in its effect on the course of a sane connection.
    After achieving self-acceptance, the Capricorn woman is calmer and more capable of generating love. At this point, her relationship with a man will reflect the positive way in which she relates to herself. For the Capricorn woman who is wise, love is a power that increases with age as it permits her to flower. Freed from fear, defense, anger and insecurity, love adds a luster to the Capricorn woman's normal patina. Living through affirmation rather than compensation, she comes alive to her own emotional potential, powerful as that is. And in so doing, she is transformed into the person she always knew that she could be, a woman rich from within and beautiful beyond the imagination of Beverly Hills, New York, Moscow, Paris, Rome and the banalities of material perfection.