Women will repel a guy with no boundaries, no self respect, puts up with $hit from her, chases like a puppy when rejected, a guy who is afraid of walking away, that thinking of "oh be a broken man so girls will like you" man shut the fvck up with that binary thinking (not you directly, but in general with men with that thinking)
I know what you mean. These guys are looking for a 'mother'.
When I left home at 17 I came from a dark place of childhood abuse and an aborted suicide attempt, but I wasn't 'broken' nor was I interested in becoming someone's 'project'. I worked on improving myself and some women I dated wanted to make themselves a crucial part of that process by implying I needed their help, but I refused their help and went my own way.
Guys who enjoy getting fixed by women are incapable of fixing themselves and they tend to drag down any good woman trying to help them. Most women know this and they're not really interested, but they do want to be influential in a man's life.
The way I deal with that desire to influence my life is by allowing them to exert some influence but not too much.
Like one of my kittens is a Hungarian chef de cuisine and she likes to cook for me, but my kitchen was not up to her professional standards, so she rearranged my kitchen, bought two iron skillets and taught me how to maintain them. She derives a lot of pleasure from 'taking care of me', but she also sees it as 'doing something back' since I got her to move to vaping cannabis from smoking joints that messed up her lungs. And she can be shameless with me and explore a new side to her sexuality that she wasn't aware of.
It's a balancing act. You want to maintain control while also give them a sense of being useful beyond the bedroom.