one of the reasons that father and adult daughter relationships should be supported and encouraged is to help young adult women make better decisions concerning sex and romantic relationships. specifically, we focused on the emerging adult (18-29 years-old) population and interviewed a sample of 24 women in this age group (m=20.7) ranging from freshman to graduate students at a mid-western university. most of the participants indicated that (1) fathers can give daughters hope for romantic relationships, especially when fathers are …

i think we need to first understand that the bond we create in all of our adult relationships with me and women, depends from those first two relationships with our mother and father. it was overlooked as a major influence on a child’s development and quality of life, as is the impact our relationship with our fathers have on our own mothers. because our father is the first real bridge that connects children to the external world and all the …

our culture reinforces this estrangement by encouraging fathers to be all-knowing, strong, and in charge. she and her father are caught in a vicious cycle of control: he attempts to manage her by reminding her to take her antidepressant medication and criticizing her for bingeing. elizabeth accepts the invitation and jumps in to mediate, creating more conflict between her and her husband.

(therapist invites casey and her father to talk. one way to do this is by cultivating a cotherapy …

the one person with whom it works proves to you, in the course of being together, that he or she really gets who you are. how in the world can you get back to opening yourself up to someone who has hurt you? and you can allow yourself time to heal from the hurts of the past, because that is a natural process that cannot be rushed. because your guard remains up (that was number one in this list), your …