Personal Narrative: My Father Daughter Relationships

Two weeks prior to my 45th birthday, my 21 year old daughter, Jacqueline, asked me to pick her up at her boyfriend's house because she said she wanted to talk to me. I could sense in her voice something might be troubling her by the nervous cracking in her voice and it was rather unusual for her to actually want to talk to me alone because for the last three years it seemed she confided in her mother more than anyone else, which is I assume is typical in most father/daughter relationships as they mature from a child into a young woman. Jacqueline and I had a terrific relationship up until high school, when boys started coming into the picture which caused me to be more protective of who she was with and where she went. So, from her senior year in high school until very recently she had almost exclusively sought her mother's advice on relationships and everything that a young woman might need to know. So, on this particular Thursday evening in November, I pulled up in …show more content…
I made every effort to stay under the speed limit to prolong the drive and give her the opportunity to talk to me before we arrived home. After what seemed like an hour of neither of us wanting to start the conversation, which was actually only ten minutes, she looked at me and said “Daddy, I'm pregnant and you’re going to be a grandfather” as tears welled in her eyes. I have to admit, my heart kind of sank as the words she just spoke were one of the scenarios I had feared hearing. I took my eyes off the road long enough to look at her and ask “How far along are you?” to which she replied “six weeks”. The first thought to run across my mind was; I'm not ready to be a grandfather, but I asked her what she wanted to do and if she thought she was ready to be a