You're still recovering from flu; don't forget that, please.

Glad you and bf are patching things up and that isn't stressing you out.

You'll never be able to hide from your daughter that you feel you're a non-nurturing
parent. She'll pick it up by behavior, but it really isn't going to hurt her so long as
she knows that you love her and support her efforts. I suspect that her interests
are much like yours--intellectual ones, since she seems so bright.

I would say," nothing to worry about there for the time-being." She may become more
independent as she reaches the teen-age years, but that's normal and something
to look forward to!

My daughter was reared with a Welsh pony,a little Arabian filly, dogs,
cats, and fishing tackle. She loves her daughter immensely and the
child often has her nails painted, wears a lot of pink, and loves people.

It's all in the quality of home life and love between birth and their current age that make them secure with their sex and lifestyles, I think. You're giving that to your youngster, in my view.

Take care.