Father's often discount the importance of their relationships with their daughters. It is common for father's to believe that the mother is the most influential role, when really, father's have an equally important role in their daughters lives. Mothers are important, but father's offer specific things to their young daughters that mothers cannot provide.
Father's are very important role models for their daughters, especially in the puberty and teen years. A father is the first male that a girl comes to intimately know, and he can set the stage for how his daughter interacts in future relationships, especially with men.
Runied Father Rescuing Daughter- A previously distant father turns to his daughter in trouble, expecting her to take care of him. The daughter sacrifices her own well being in order to win her father's approval.
Sounds fair enough.
Girls base their male romantic ideal on their relationship with their father.
Or Disney movies, but I'll let that one slide.
If a woman does not have a loving dependable father, due to his own arrested development or a divorce, she may seek men who reject or deny her needs. She may recoil from love altogether. Always she is haunted by the thought that she is essentially unlovable
At this point I sat upright.
They may fear intimacy. The common theme is "an inability to trust, to believe that a man won't go away."
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Women with absent fathers feel rootless and aren't sure they belong anywhere. They close up emotionally and tend to have rocky relationships.
It seems that the less masculine attention they got in childhood, the more they seem to identify with and imitate men, keeping their feelings hidden, preferring casual teasing and unemotional banter to the intimacies of feminine soul bearing.
Conclusion?
I'm screwed.
I wish I didn't read that article this morning. But I suppose it gave me something to think about.
