Her father is a tough, domineering, masculine man. That is the model she learned as a child and that is what she is comfortable with. What she wants is this type of man, but in a caring, empathic version, what she wishes her dad would be. What she is NOT comfortable with is a compliant, supplicating man.
Absolutely right on.
if we can be sufficient to ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs Erica Jong
