Jealous of daughter's love for daddy....

The other day we were at the grocery store where my husband works. I was buying a toy for a birthday gift for one of my daughter's friends.

He was just getting off his shift.

We get to the center part of the store, and she sees her daddy from about 20 or 30 feet away. She screams "Daddy Daddy!!" so energetically and runs to see him...then gives him a huge hug.

Got big "aww"'s from every person around. It was really cute.

Just one example....but....my daughter is a HUGE Daddy's girl. Has been since birth. And I should just be happy that she has such a loving father - with all our marital issues, I will never deny that he is an amazing father to her.

So why am I so jealous. I see something like that and it just makes my heart ache...because she NEVER runs to me!! She never seems excited to see me.

I just feel so guilty. I'm trying really hard to mask my emotions and not let stuff show thru, but I'm sure it does, and I know that's probably why she doesn't like me as much.

Gah what the heck. She's only 2-1/2 years old. What do I expect.

Stupid stupid feelings.

That normaly happens to the partner that works ie mum or dad....

I think they are ecited to see them as they are not always around, can I ask do you work ?

Trish.

I do work, full-time. Hubby works part-time.

He was Mr. Mom when she was a baby. We worked opposite shifts to avoid daycare - he was home during the day & worked nights/weekends, i worked days. Now, I work M-F 8-5 and daddy works about 20-35 hours a week, various shifts.

My ex-husband has such a detachment to our 3 girls that I had never experienced the gratitude that comes with seeing that loving fatherly side of him. He has never been able to put their needs and feelings before his own and even went so far during our divorce to cry in front of them one day when I picked them up after their visit like it was tearing him up to separate again which in turn made them cry- only to later admit that he did this to hurt me. There are many other sickening displays of selfishness that I won't bother you with but reading this post jumped out at me and I had to tell you to please appreciate what you have. I would've given anything to see these qualities in my ex and because of the lack of them my daughters have suffered. A lot. I have all respect for all the great dads out there because living the on the opposite end of a truly loving father puts both the kids and the spouse in a very lonely place.

Hey sometimes I feel the same about my husband and his daughter. Sometimes I think the girl is "in-love" with her father.