Taking a gander at the latest confessions, I came across this:
"You don't deserve me. I waste my time with you because you are Unavailable. Not good looking. Not intelligent. Not funny. Not rich. What the fuck did Daddy do that made you so fucking attractive to me??? Oh, that's right. He was GONE. Thanks, Dad. Yet another asshole to add to my dating history."
For a long time I didn't understand the connection of daddy issues and boyfriends. The whole thing about looking for the qualitites of your father - subconsciously or not - in the men you date just didn't make sense to me. Why on earth would I want a man like my dad? Sure, he's a hard-working man who struggled most of his life to make ends meet, never abused me, was always there for me when I was a little girl and always knew that if some guy hurt me, my father would break the guy's neck. But now that I'm older I see things differently: he's also a drunk, a cheater, a liar, an asshole, and wouldn't know how to say sorry if his life depended on it.
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