The Father, The Daughter, and the Young Man

A good and loving father deeply cared for his beautiful daughter. He brought her up in the way she should go. He adorned her with gifts and graces that he took pleasure in bestowing upon her. He taught her to love God and others, and to see herself with a high level of respect. The daughter meant the world to the father and he only wanted what was best for her.

One day a young man came to he father’s house to see the daughter. The young man honked his horn to alert the daughter that he had arrived and waited impatiently for her to come out of the house. The father exited the house to see what was happening and there he met the young man for the first time.

When the father realized that the young man was there to pick his daughter up for a date, he asked the young man what his intentions were. The young man replied to the father that he would be taking the daughter out to a cheap dinner, taking her to see a second-run movie, and then hoping to get “some tail” in the backseat of his car before he dropped her off at home. He expressed his desire that the dinners and movies would eventually be phased out and that he could skip right to the “tail” whenever he spent time with the daughter.

“If I’m lucky”, said the young man, ” I’ll convince your daughter to move in with me where she will cook for me, do my laundry, clean my house, give me some tail whenever I want, then let me go hang out with the boys whenever I feel like it.”

The father nodded his head and the young man continued. He expressed to the father that he would tell the daughter that he was just making sure that they were compatible with each other and once they were ready, then they would get married. He then let the father know that compatibility and preparedness weren’t his intentions at all- that he didn’t want to be tied down to just one woman. He wanted to keep the daughter around as long as possible, and if he was lucky have a few other girls on the side, because “after all”, said the young man, “why would I buy the cow when I can get the milk for free?”

As the daughter exited the house to leave with the young man, he leaned over to the father and said,” Girl better not get pregnant!” And as the daughter approached the car the young man quietly asked the father,” This cool wit-you”. The father shook his head in affirmation and a wink and said, ” Sure thing son! Sure thing!”

So my question is this: Young men, if this was your daughter, how would you react differently to the “young man”?

And if you have expectations for how “young men” should treat the daughter you have some day in a certain respectful way, then why not wake up and see the girls that you are dating today are somebody else’s daughter? Why not treat them like you want the young man to treat your daughter?

But I’m sure when you take them out, and when you ask them to move in with you, and when you tell them you love them right before you take advantage of them, that you have good intentions- right??