I choose to read the essay Daughters, Fathers, and Dancing by John D. Larwy. I figured I would be able to relate to this essay more than the other being I am a daughter and I have a good relationship with my father. Larwy mentions that many fathers prefer to talk to their sons over their daughters. In my family that was not the case. My father and I have a lot more in common with me than my father and my brother, which leads to my father having more conversations with me as opposed to my brother.

My father is the one who encouraged me to play sports. Not only would he take me to practices he would coach my teams. He would make me practice all the time, but he would come outside with me and help me. If you looked out the window and and saw us kicking the soccer ball around you would assume we were taking about random things, and sometimes we were, but I had a lot of important conversations with my dad when we …show more content…
My father was protective of me but at the same time understood that this was all part of growing up. After my boyfriend left I had a very real conversation with my father one similar to the one we had when I told him I had been asked out. This conversation was about sex and relationships. From what my friends say they would never talk to their fathers about sex, only their mothers if that, but the relationship my father and I have is open. Not to say I did not talk to my mother about sex also but my father wanted to have an open dialog about it. He cares and even if the conversation gets a little awkward he wants to tell me his true feelings and he wants me to know he will support me in anything I decide. I have never seen my father cry, therefore picturing my father as Lawry when he say his daughter and her boyfriend showing affection is not easy. When Lawry brought this up it reminded me of the conversation my father had with