Cancer woman profile - personality traits & characteristics

Romantic and devoted, the Cancer woman enjoys the home and everything associated with it. She often has a strong appreciation of food and a talent for cooking. She loves to help others and feel needed.

Loving, gentle, intimate and understanding she is kind hearted but not soft, and will often know exactly what you're feeling and how best to support you emotionally. Highly intuitive and sympathetic, she's a well of support and strength, often knowing exactly how to make you feel good, secure and protected.

If all this sounds too good to be true, quite possibly it is. The price paid for this ‘super-lover’ can be an exceptionally moody disposition. She can be romantic for a month, sad for a day, happy for an hour and then depressed for a week, and all with a constantly varying level of emotional intensity. Your challenge throughout is to identify, sympathize and empathize accordingly. Fail and she will feel let down and neglected, often withdrawing and becoming resentful. Worse, she has a very good memory in this area, and can take a while to forgive someone.

If you're able to pick up on other peoples emotions this is a wonderful, caring and warm sign, and everything you've read about them being nurturing and supportive is true. Possibly the most perfect partner you could wish for.

If you aren't sensitive enough to pick up on and empathize with others emotions however, then your perfect Cancer lover may become increasingly distant and argumentative, as your tally of neglect grows. In this respect, in the long term this is an all or nothing woman.

Cancer woman as a lover

Fiercely loyal and protective, she will do anything to ensure the happiness and security of her loved ones.

An interesting and unique sign in this area, Cancer is ruled by the moon, and as such is the most feminine sign. Whilst ‘feminine’ in this respect covers a huge number of positive, relationship enhancing traits, it also covers a large number of potentially negative ones. Whether you get the positive set or the negative depends on how well you can read and care for them.

One fundamental aspect of cancer is that they’re very moody. They can be practical one day, romantic the next, and highly competitive the day after, all while on an emotional rollercoaster which can change every hour.

In short, cancer is an unpredictable sign, with a little of everything at different times. This can make them far more exciting and unpredictable lovers than the standard nurturing image would portray. While being perfect for almost anyone, this can equally make it very hard for a partner to give them exactly what they need at any given time.

Cancer is a highly sensitive and intuitive sign, always aware of the needs and feelings of others. Unless they’re with an equally intuitive and sensitive lover however they need to be very communicative and open (which they typically aren’t) or there’s a danger of them feeling that others can understand them, but simply choose not to care.

This situation gets rapidly compounded, because cancer doesn’t like confrontation, and prefers to withdraw to heal when hurt, leading to feeling resentful and taken for granted, and eventually becoming argumentative and feeling like a martyr.

The common advice is to tell cancer that you love them 20 times a day. While this certainly works, it misses the point, that they want to be understood. Because they’re so good at that themselves, they have trouble accepting that many others just aren’t.

More than anything then, Cancer compatibility hinges on a partner who can read and empathize with their moods. If this is the case, they’re deeply caring, sympathetic and passionate lovers who will do anything for a partner or loved one.