Whenever we encounter sickly adult love, we know that the story did not begin there.
When considering the daughters in our lives, a healthy paternal influence often unveils itself through tolerance and happiness. An ability to give and to receive affection suggests a largely unheralded hero, who facilitated such a path towards maturity and contentment – another older, perhaps now-dead, man to thank for such blessings.
A good father may not be able to spare his daughter every kind of suffering; he will, nevertheless, offer her a bounty of certain qualities that will eventually lead to a human capable of love, self-respect and a caring nature.
