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Originally Posted by DrPhil
Your mother was not the one who put the ring on you.  I was asking whether it was significant that your father, and not just either parent, was the one who put the ring on you; and why you felt that was of particular pride for him as a father as opposed to being of pride to a parent, in general (i.e., would your father be more proud than if your mother had done it). Why do you think fathers (in general) care about their daughters having sex; and daughters (in general) care about their fathers' approval? |
Maybe because...that's part of "becoming a woman" (or so they say) and fathers tend to get more panicked about daughters doing things that are grown. "Daddy's little girl" and all that. Not that it isn't a mother's job to encourage her daughter not to do things she is not mature enough to do but society tends to push father's toward that role. Mama bears get riled up about lots of other things.
Hmmm...I'll have to think about the bolded. My first reaction was "Because he was the one who was home" but maybe I wouldn't have asked my mother if she had been home. Or maybe I would have...I've never really thought about it. No, he would not have been more proud than my mother (I don't think) so I'm not sure what it meant to me.
Ugh, now I have to figure out what was going on in my head almost a decade ago. Whatchu dodat fo'?
