Daughter-father relationship
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I'm not sure it is true for everyone but it is in my case. My mom and I don't see eye to eye on a whole lot but I am (and will always be) daddy's little girl.0
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He is the most amazing guy in the world first of all. He has always been there for me no matter what, he has never been judgmental or criticized anything I've done. He always tells me he loves me and how proud he is of me. I actually dread disappointing him in any way even though it doesn't and would never make him think any less of me.0 -
I don't know about in general, but I had a much more loving view of my father than of my mother. Not to go into details, but my mother wasn't the nicest person in the world...Daddy was kind and quiet.0
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Is it sort of related to ''opposite sex'' attraction whatsoever?-5
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eh... Freud was a fraud. for the record: NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE.0
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well that's just a little creepy...
I love and respect anyone who loves and respects me.
Just sayin.0 -
Nope nothing like that at all.0
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I think dads have a special relationship with their daughter. We are their princesses. Dads are ruff and tuff with their sons to make them into men and mom's take that role with daughters.
Moms know what daughters can and will do so we are harder on them. We also are our daughters biggest supports.
Dads just have a special place in our hearts.0 -
Growing up, I always favored my father over my mother. My Dad was the one that I listened to, and didn't want to disappoint. My Mom was sometimes a best friend, sometimes that sister you didn't want. After my Dad passed, we were forced to talk more and realized that we were the exact same person and that's why we butted heads when I was younger. I think little girls favor their Dads because Daddy think the world of their precious little girls and treat them so. Moms are more examples, and trying to make them into women... Dads just want their little girls to stay little girls.
And, this is all a generalization, and based solely on my experience. I know families were the father is a POS, so yeahhh...0 -
No. I think that some people tend to connect better than others, and when you connect more closely with your dad than your mom suddenly it's "Daddy's little girl!" In fact, I'd go so far as to say it's rarer which is why people are more interested in it.0
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Fathers and daughters typically have a special bond. There is nothing sexual or opposite sex about it. It's kinda creepy to even hear that asked. I am very close with my daughter and she's a total daddy's girl and it likely won't ever change.0
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My daughter wants mommy when she wakes up or when she has a boo boo
My daughter wants daddy when she wants hugs and cuddles and getting tickled0 -
I think it probably depends on the situation to a large degree. My daughter and I have a... tempestuous relationship I suppose you could say. But there were a LOT of outside and internal pressures that contributed, and continue to contribute, to that. I basically raised her by myself from 4 to about 10 with my ex trying to sabotage my relationship with my daughter the whole time. My daughter is diagnosed bipolar so there's a lot that happened because of that, etc, etc, etc, etc.
Even with all that, these days she spends more time with her mom but I think she values her relationship with me more. But who knows.0 -
It doesn't mean you are sexually attracted, but might work subconsciously. anyway I heard it from a fellow sociologist and want to know others opinion as well-1
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Daddy's girl here for sure. My mom and I butted heads a lot when I was growing up. We get along much better now that I'm older, but I'm still a daddy's girl and always will be. Not sure of the reasoning (definitely not the creepy opposite sex attraction you suggested) but that's just the way it is. I'm also the baby. Probably something like someone else suggested of the little princess thing. Who knows.0
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Sounds like you're talking about the Electra Complex. That's a bunch of neo-Freud nonsense.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electra_complex0 -
I have a three year old little girl that is a Daddy's girl through and through, and that's just fine by me. She's my constant companion and best little buddy. I don't know if it will always be like this, but I hope so. I always think of this quote by Joseph Addison:
“Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.”
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I think I was a bit of a daddy's girl when I was little, but I've always been close to my mum, and I'm still very close to her now and I'm 37. My sister doesn't get on with my dad at all.
I have a son and 2 daughters, and they're very close to both my husband and myself.0 -
I'm Daddy's Girl through and through, but My Mom is my best friend... I lost my Dad 2 years ago... I can say that BOTH my parents are so special. If your lucky enough to have both parents love them with all your heart. Never miss a chance to say I love you, even if you don't always agree... when they are gone your chance to say it to them and let them know will be gone too. - and daughters do live their Daddys... Daddy is the first prince charming we know... they chase monsters from under our beds when we are little, we pick our future husbands based on how they treat us, they always seem to save the day... nothing wrong with being a Daddy's girl... even after their gone, your still Daddy's girl.0
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Sounds like you're talking about the Electra Complex. That's a bunch of neo-Freud nonsense.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electra_complex
Interesting!0 -
Maybe it's a protective thing? Girls might see the dad as the big bear who protects them no matter what, and somehow translates into a more close relationship as they grow older? Just a guess.... I dunno. I'll find out though (girl, on the way!)0
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Daddy's girls are pretty much the same as mamas' boys.0
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Ps... I have a brother and he's totally Momma's boy... so it works!0
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I think it depends on the relationship as you are growing up. I had very little to do with my father and have always idolised my mother. She was always there to support me and encourage me and now I'm grown I'm still extremely close to my mother. My parents divorced when I was 8, and I didn't see anything of my father until I was 26, when he decided to get back in touch. I was a grown woman with a family of my own then. My mother never had a bad word to say against my father.0
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You know, this was an interesting sociology debatable point until you brought in the whole "sexual attraction thing" That's just wrong. As a woman who struggles with an ex that has demonstrated an affinity for young girls and has made inappropriate comments to his and my daughter so that now he's on a watchdog with authorities and myself, this is just a type of conversation that furthers this sort of behaviour of men tricking themselves into thinking that this may be "ok"
It's not ok.
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Freud did coke and had an unhealthy fascination with children and their stages of development. So, I don't find much of his work to be based in reality. Children do not sexually idolize their parents, not if they are in a healthy, respectful household. I would say that I have found my daughter to have a stronger bond with me than her father, though mostly because her father is not in the picture much. I did not like my father, and I got along with my mother more regularly, so I cannot give great insight.0
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