Men: What if your Daughter Brought Home a Guy Like You?
 

How about it, guys? What if, waaaaaay down the road, you have a beautiful, perfect, princess of a daughter and when she hits dating age she brings home a boy who reminds you to a tee of YOU when you were that age.

Congratulate her on her good taste?
Insist it be a group date?
Immediately show him to the door?
Send your daughter to boarding school?

Or something else?

Just wanted to throw in a side comment... :)

I think this is probably a very common thing. I've read many studies on this while completing my sociology minor. Girls tend to find men who are much like their father. Girls who were daddy's little girl tend to find a guy that will treat them like a princess. Girls who have an ambitious father want to find the same in their mate. Sadly, many women who were emotionally/physically abused by their father find a man that does the same to them. The reason women do this is because their father is main male role model in their life and they try to find a mate to fulfill that same position. Not every girl tries to find a man who emulates the same characteristics as her father but it is really common. I find many qualities about my boyfriend that are the same in my father. It's scary! :eek: But, I love my father very much so it's fitting that I would want to find a guy that I feel will treat me as well as my daddy has treated me. :)

I would think that if a man is a very good father that he should be flattered that his daughter is bringing home a guy just like him! :) Even if the guy does remind him of his younger, wilder days!

Where are these women?

Oh there everywhere...I get plenty of girls to talk to me when I tell them I'm pre-med...surprising really.


As for the question...
To a tee, I'd probably end up being great friends with the guy, and congratulating my daughter on her good taste.

hmmm well i know i'm not a guy lol- but i definatly agree with this theory... its kind of weird- but i know that i look for guys that are kind of wild but intellectual (like my dad) tall and built bordering on heavy set (like my dad) brown hair and eyes- likes to have a good time- etc... (like my dad) and treats me like he does... (haven't found it yet:()

i know waht i want in my husband/boyfriend- and i am attracted to those characteristics.... there are a lot of things that drive me crazy that he does- but thats with everyone....

i think that if i showed up with a guy that reminded my dad of himself he'd prob want to show the guy the door because my dad knows what he was capable at that age.... but also he knows that he'd be good for me- so he'd accept him- just like my mom's dad did..... (the men on both sides of my family are pretty similar... maybe its the kansas wildness lol)

p.s. i hope that made sense... i've been rambling incoherently a lot lately lol

$$$
Imagine that. A woman attracted to a man's income, or income earning potential.

As far as me, I'd congratulate her on her good taste.

I would congratulate my baby girl for her good taste :D

I would like him . . and try not to imagine what he was doing with her . . and I wouldn't believe her if she said nothing . .. because I know me well enough to know that I wouldn't be with someone that didn't do anything. :p

I would instantly show the kid to the door. Not a chance a guy like me will go out with my daughter.

My dad doesn't care about the guys I date. That's why I don't really want a guy like him--he never wanted much to do with me until I was older, and I always felt like I was competing for his attention and never getting it. I actually have dated guys like this, guys that I doubt would've paid me any attention if I'd been on fire...guess that's why. :p

My stepdad would like to see me date a guy like him, but not long-term or anything permanent because they'd end up killing each other. He's got a very domineering personality, and he usually likes the guys I date who are like that for a few weeks and then he's like, "Get rid of 'im." I don't like people telling me what to do, so I'm making an effort not to end up with a guy like him, either.

Do you have any clue how awful I am? No girl should ever date anyone like me!

-Rudey

i would probaby kick him in the nuts, then try to pin a murder or something on him so he would be locked away far from my daughter. thats what i would do.

LOL, Matt! You sound just like my husband!

I found a touring partner for Phish!!!!

Re: Men: What if your Daughter Brought Home a Guy Like You?
 

I'd say congrats for her good taste.

Does he want to make sure she doesn't ever go out on a date or hold a boy's hand until marriage? Because I would do that to my daughter while I frequent gentlemen's clubs.

-Rudey

Oh, wow. A bit too close to home. But, I would simply explain THE RULES:

Rule One :

If you pull into my driveway and honk you'd better be delivering a package, because you're sure not picking anything up.

Rule Two :

You do not touch my daughter in front of me. You may glance at her, so long as you do not peer at anything below her neck. If you cannot keep your eyes or hands off of my daughter's body, I will remove them.

Rule Three :

I am aware that it is considered fashionable for boys your age to wear their trousers so loose that they appear to be falling off. Please don't take this as an insult, but you and all of your friends are complete idiots. Still, I want to be fair and open minded about this issue, so I propose this compromise: You may come to the door with your underwear showing and your pants ten sizes too big, and I will not object. However, to ensure that your clothes do not, in fact, come off during your date with my daughter, I will use my electric nail gun and fasten your trousers securely to your waist.

Rule Four :

I'm sure you've been told that in today's world, sex without utilizing a "barrier method" of some kind can kill you. Let me elaborate, when it comes to sex, I am the barrier, and I will kill you.

Rule Five :

In order for us to get to know each other, we should talk about sports, politics, and other issues of the day. Please do not do this. The only information I require from you is an indication of when you expect to have my daughter safely back at my house, and the only word I need from you on this subject is "early."

Rule Six :

I have no doubt you are a popular fellow, with many opportunities to date other girls. This is fine with me as long as it is okay with my daughter. Otherwise, once you have gone out with my little girl, you will continue to date no one but her until she is finished with you. If you make her cry, I will make you cry.

Rule Seven :

As you stand in my front hallway, waiting for my daughter to appear, and more than an hour goes by, do not sigh and fidget. If you want to be on time for the movie, you should not be dating. My daughter is putting on her makeup, a process that can take longer than painting the Golden Gate Bridge. Instead of just standing there, why don't you do something useful, like changing the oil in my car?

Rule Eight :

The following places are not appropriate for a date with my daughter: Places where there are beds, sofas, or anything softer than a wooden stool. Places where there are no parents, policemen, or nuns within eyesight. Places where there is darkness. Places where there is dancing, holding hands, or happiness. Places where the ambient temperature is warm enough for my daughter to wear shorts, tank tops, midriff T-shirts, or anything other than overalls, a sweater, and a goose down parka zipped up to her throat. Movies with a strong romantic or sexual theme are to be avoided; movies which features chain saws are okay. Hockey games are okay. Old folks homes are better.

Rule Nine :

Do not lie to me. I may appear to be a potbellied, balding, middle-aged, dimwitted has-been. But on issues relating to my daughter, I am the all-knowing, merciless god of your universe. If I ask you where you are going and with whom, you have one chance to tell me the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I have a shotgun, a shovel, and five acres behind the house. Do not trifle with me.

Rule Ten :

Be afraid. Be very afraid. It takes very little for me to mistake the sound of your car in the driveway for a chopper coming in over a rice paddy outside of Hanoi. When my Agent Orange starts acting up, the voices in my head frequently tell me to clean the guns as I wait for you to bring my daughter home. As soon as you pull into the driveway you should exit your car with both hands in plain sight. Speak the perimeter password, announce in a clear voice that you have brought my daughter home safely and early, then return to your car--there is no need for you to come inside. The camouflaged face watching you from the window is mine.

Ambitious guys, line up here. lol ;)

eta- I like ambitious guys becaue I'm ambitious, not because I want money. I can make that myself, thank you! I find that guys that don't know what they want to do in life don't tolerate my ambition well.

LXA...you must be my father, you sound just like him. :eek:

I've gotten 4 emails forwards with that in there so it's not him.

-Rudey

Not, not mine...sorry I forgot to attribute credit where it is due.

My daughter is only 2 1/2 right now, so, I have plenty of time to commit this list to memory.

Even worse, IF my daughter still succeeds on going out on dates after I put forth those rules, she'll still have two other protective entities - her brothers: 6 and 7 years older than her, and they have both told me that they WILL be going with her on her first dates!

I've also noticed that my sons, now starting to realize that (gasp) girls EXIST...are also very considerate. My #1 rule for them dating is to consider if their date also has a brother...how would you feel if she was dating (or doing something)...keep that in mind, and always be a gentleman!

You must not have heard about the double standard that males enjoy. Don't ruin it for your sons.

-Rudey

hell no...

I seek out men like my dad, but unfortunately find them w/ the worst aspect of him: emotional distance. Aren't I a lucky girl? :rolleyes: If I found a guy who was somewhat "here" and like my dad, I would marry him. And I think my dad would be ok w/ that.

My parents always used to tell my brother to be nice to me because he would want to date my friends one day. Man, were they right when we got to college!