It wasn't until I started seeing movies where fathers love their daughters or social things like father/daughter dances, much later in my life, that I even thought my father/daughter relationship was even different than others.

For one, it greatly impacted my life financially.

And it impacted me most in that I never felt safe and protected.

When I started with boys and sexuality, I had very low self esteem.

BTW- my mother told me she got pregnant with me to stay married to my father. So I was only born as an obligation. Do I care?

The good news is I am in this world and I did end up marrying a loving, dedicated man.

The bad news is I have an emotional disorder and have a very hard time acting normal and loving to this very nice man. I'm sure this is because of both my parents' dysfunction, possibly genetics, possibly a learned disorder for me.