This particular prompt got to me, immediately after I saw it, it brought back a very hilarious memory that I would love to share with you all. I guess there is this strong bond between fathers and their daughters that mothers can't seem to understand or break. Fathers are somehow overprotective of their daughters, especially of the opposite gender. My father is not an exception, he always acts like he is under punishment anytime he sees me with a man.
As the first daughter of the family, I don't get the privilege to go out at will because my dad is a strict man who always wants his daughter indoors for reasons best known to him. During my teenage age, I dared not bring a man home as a friend, or probably I was coming from school and a man escorted me to my house. He dared not send me on an errand and see me talking or walking with a man, such a man wouldn't find it funny at all. This deprived me of having a boyfriend during my teenage age. Even though I tried to act on his intelligence by asking my boyfriend when I finally have one at SS2 to pose as a Jehovah's Witness whenever he wants to come visit me.
In the end, he couldn't keep up with the act and we had to break up. Then I gave up on relationships, tho I do relate well with my male friends in school but none of them have the nerve to follow me home or go near my house because they are all afraid of my dad, likewise was I because I don't know what my dad might do to me if he sees me with a man. When I came of age as an adult, I no longer had that fear but my male friends who knew my dad were still afraid of relating with me whenever my dad was present. It got to a point, where I always made the move to talk to my male friends in front of my dad just to take the fear off their minds.
At age 23, I met a guy and we started a relationship, he demanded to know my parents I tried talking him out of it but he insisted. I know the kind of father I have, I'm so sure it's not going to be as smooth as he expected. One Saturday afternoon, I took him home to meet my parents and my dad gave him the shocker of his life. My dad began to ask him questions that even if he came to pay my bride price, he couldn't finish answering them all. My mom got tired of it and requested my boyfriend to come eat to excuse him from my dad who had a long list of questions to ask the young man.
He couldn't bring himself to like the situation he found himself and suddenly he withdrew and the relationship ended. We aren't meant to be, I can say my dad was practically not allowing me into a relationship and I decided to ask him one day what his reasons were. He told me when he was growing up as a young man, he so much enjoyed himself with ladies because he was quite handsome so he had ladies at his beck and call. He does flirt around and when he gets to a marriageable age, he said he prayed to God not to give him a female child as his first child so that he doesn't have to protect her from men because he knows what he did during his youthful days.
Unfortunately, his prayers were not answered because I came as the first child and I am a girl, therefore he is trying his best to avoid the law of karma which means whatever you sow, that's what you are going to reap. He doesn't want men to mess with his daughters the way he did while growing up. Till now when I'm no longer home with him, he calls or messages me every day to check on me and ask how I've been coping and lots of questions about my relationship life. So I guess fathers don't do well with their daughter's boyfriends because they are very much aware of how men behave and they don't want their daughters to go through the pains.
Thanks for your time and your comments will be appreciated.