By university, my dad basically talked at, rather than to, me. It got worse: I was whisked away to boarding house when I was 10, and the physical distance in my teens mirrored the emotional gap from childhood. But even that was less damaging than the lack of play time and words of affirmation, which heightened my fear of my father into anger and then disregard. Like most men in his generation, my father’s discipline often meant corporal punishments, and I grew up with an unhealthy fear of him. Without a balanced relationship with my father, I grew up deficient in all those areas.
The interaction between a father and a daughter goes a long way in shaping her life: her view of the world, her self-confidence, her emotional, physical, spiritual, and mental health. Conveniently left out of this narrative, though, is the impact of fathers, especially on their daughters. We all have gotten an earful of the critical role of mothers in nurturing children.
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