Ladies, The Only Man On Earth Who Will Love You Unconditionally Is Your Daddy. Get Over It.

I will never forget the day when a black woman screamed at me because she discovered I grew up in a two-parent household. The fact that I had a father who married my mother and enjoyed being a parent, as opposed to this woman’s dad leaving her mother to raise her on her own, caused this stranger to have an immediate mental breakdown.

I could’ve retorted, of course. But her anger really wasn’t aimed at me. Her visceral reaction was an expression of pain I couldn’t understand. I am sure that my inability to empathize with the frustration of growing up in a fatherless home may have contributed to her rage. But still, like many adult women around, they are searching for a type of love only their parents, namely their fathers, can give them.

Might I mention that this type of love is unconditional, and is not what most men want to provide for women? They desire a relationship or situationship that disproportionately benefits them.

But I get it, though. Some women did not grow up with a father in their lives. And so they spend much of their adult lives searching for the unconditional love a male parental figure was supposed to give them in the average man. Of course the opposite sex expertly utilizes this longing for their selfish benefit.