The love a father has for his daughter is almost likened to the love he has for his wife and I guess that's because they are of the same genders. So with that in mind, just imagine a man's wife introducing another guy to her husband that he is her boyfriend, huh? That stern look on her husband's face is just so similar to that of a father's face when his daughter brings a guy or he sees his daughter with a guy.
Like this particular topic of discussion just reminds me of some years back when I was in my teens, dad was so protective of my sister and I. Maybe it was because he knew my mum wasn't around to give us some girly advise so he was very cold towards any guy that comes close to any of his daughters. My dad was so protective to the point that even if we were discussing and he hears something that sounded like a guy in that conversation it won't be easy lol.
I remember there was this particular day when I returned home from school with a guys notebook and that was because he lives around my neighborhood so it was easy to return it back to him once I was done but my dad immediately became a detective that evening when my classmate came over to collect his notebook. I actually didn't think he was going to feel that way because the boy was someone he knows in the neighborhood but then what I heard from my dad was, who is this guy? Oh my! Dad this is Dan that leaves next compound.
He was still acting like he doesn't know the guy, at that point I just knew how overprotective dads can be jeez, like how can my dad not remember a guy he has been seeing almost everytime. Just for the fact that he is seeing that I'm close to him gives him something to worry about and he just doesn't want to agree that he even knows the guy anymore. Well, I still took my time to tell him who the guy was so he won't have more reasons to be angry for no reason, hehe.
Father's don't like their first encounter with their daughter's male friend because he sees every guy as a bad boy and wants to be sure of what the guys intentions are towards his daughter first and also know if the guy is capable of being with his daughter. Most times the father might continue being cold to the guy especially when he knows how much the guy loves his daughter, I guess that's the way he can show how much he would miss his daughter if she gets married.
I can say this much because I've seen my father on display so many times and he's definitely the one that would be really cold to any man that comes around his daughters but somehow, these days things seems to have changed with how he entertains our male friends. I guess now he's already getting use to the fact that we are definitely going to get married someday so he's trying to be more welcoming, hehe.
I don't know if you can relate with this but most father's are just cold to their daughter's male friend because they want to be sure their daughters are safe with them.
This is my response to one of the hiveghana's weekly topic on "DAD VS BOYFRIENDS".