It takes a man to raise a daughter to grow into a well adjusted and confident woman. As a girl myself, I know the importance of having a strong relationship with my father during those crucial development years. It was during the periods I saw little of him that I found myself struggling for identity, direction and affection.
As a girl grows into a woman her connection to her mother fades as her connection to her father becomes vital. Girls fight with their mothers during those years and beg for the attention of their fathers. They need their dad in ways they don’t understand. They crave his approval and fear his disapproval. Nothing is more frightening to a little girl then disappointing her father and when she becomes a woman nothing is more frightening to her than disappointing her partner. Girls seek the approval of the men in their lives. They take criticism from fathers and partners more harshly than any one else can deliver it. The messages a father sends to his daughters and a man to his wife are heard with a force that delivers those messages directly to her heart. It takes a man, a confident, secure, gentle, affectionate man to raise a girl to become a confident woman. It takes the same sort of man to love that woman.
