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Are You The Man You Would Want Your Daughter To Marry?

If you hesitated or thought about it for more than a minute, then you need to reevaluate who you are at this moment.

Sarrah Zeer
Aug 09, 2017
Indiana University
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Are You The Man You Would Want Your Daughter To Marry?
Sarrah Zeer

Are you the man you would want your daughter to marry?

If you hesitated or thought about it for more than a minute, then you need to reevaluate who you are at this moment. I know so many guys that have the potential to do and be better. But why do you want to live your life based on the potential that you could have?

Do better. Be better.

I had a conversation with a guy who said, “I would never want my daughter to marry someone like me.”

That is heartbreaking.

Your future daughter should look up to you and compare every guy she meets to you. YOU should be what she bases her expectations on. Your actions today will affect your future daughter’s perception 20 years from now.

If you are one of those guys who is texting multiple girls at a time, only looks at girls as sex objects, refers to girls as “sluts” and “whores,” then why wouldn’t your future daughter be treated that way?

Imagine your future daughter comes home one day after a date and she’s crying to you. She tells you how her date only wanted to “get some” and called her a “bitch” for not doing anything with him. Is that your karma?

You treated girls like that when you were in your '20s, so now your daughter is being treated that way. Is that fair? Are you allowed to go to her date’s house and knock him out to make him regret treating your daughter that way? Or will you be considered a hypocrite for acting the same way 20 years prior?

I’ve also heard, “I’m scared to raise kids, because of the generation we live in, it’s only going to get worse from here.”

We are the reason it’s getting worse.

Your actions today affect what happens tomorrow. Why wouldn’t your actions today affect the generation 20 years from now when you have a daughter that is starting to date? Make the change today.

If your daughter were to go out today and marry a man that is just like you, what would she get? Would she be ignored or belittled? Would she get a selfish man that is overbearing and hateful? Would her husband yell at her and lose his temper over the slightest issue? Or, would she be happily married to a man who respects her, protects her, and is lovingly devoted to her well-being?

Fathers, be the man you want your daughter to marry, because she probably will. Strive to be the man you would want your daughter to marry.

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