For you dads of teen daughters...... I was pretty surprised by DH's coping with DD's dating. It helped that we knew all the parents, to some extent, directly or indirectly, of the boys, and all of her girlfriends, and there weren't that many boys as she had only one long term boy friend in high school and spent most weekends otherwise with groups mostly girlfriends. It got easier as she approached her 20's and into, through 20's.
In her early 20's we had to drive to her place to, in person, inform her that one of her dearest friends had been killed in a mountain climbing fall....
he made it to the top but fell several thousand feet while posing for a celebration picture. No way we could have experienced what she experienced but it had a profound effect on us watching her grieving process. A week later the three of us took a planned extended, remote location scuba diving trip. All we had was the three of us and she did not have her support peer group. Watching a child suffer and deal with this was one of the most painful periods in my life. (We had no easy acces to "outside world.")
Now think on this one...... At some point in DD's life, in her mid 20's, DW looked over at me and casually said, I think I've reached a time in my life that I would want to keep living if DD was taken from us. Can you imagine the relief I felt??????!!!!!!!
Thinking how fragile and precious life is, Feisty Alice
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