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My dad and I started talking today around 8:00pm. We finished 3.5 hours later. It's been a while since we have had a talk. We took a walk and then a drive and then we ended up in our living room. We talked about people and growing up and friendships and people in our lives, but surprisingly the thing we talked about most was dating. Dating while he was in college and how much different it is now. Here's the main difference: when he was in college you would date to get to know someone and if you didn't like them then you wouldn't date them. Now, you date after you know someone and still like them. He had some stories to tell. He told me how all of my aunts and uncles met and how old they were when they got married. Most of them married young. Here are the ages: 20, 17, 23, 22, 18, and my dad was 26. Hmmmm, yeah he was the odd ball out but he explained why and what troubles he had with women and such. It was interesting to hear my dad talk about some of the stuff he talked about. It seems like you would talk about those types of things with your friends and not your daughter, born from your wife, her mother, yes, one of the many women you dated. But it was a good talk. He gave me an amazing compliment today:
"Erin, you are wise beyond your years. You are truly wise. Sometimes I wonder if you are for real and if it is really possible to have a child as good as you." Here is where I shrugged and was kind of uncomfortable and such. "No, you are good. I am impressed with you and I am not impressed easily." This made me smile inside. I've been pretty hard on myself lately and I think I needed that. And then later he gave me permission to marry young. He said that Vaun was too old to marry young and really so was Nick. Yeah, it was an interesting conversation. Perhaps tomorrow he'll take back some of the things he said! haha.
"Erin, you are wise beyond your years. You are truly wise. Sometimes I wonder if you are for real and if it is really possible to have a child as good as you." Here is where I shrugged and was kind of uncomfortable and such. "No, you are good. I am impressed with you and I am not impressed easily." This made me smile inside. I've been pretty hard on myself lately and I think I needed that. And then later he gave me permission to marry young. He said that Vaun was too old to marry young and really so was Nick. Yeah, it was an interesting conversation. Perhaps tomorrow he'll take back some of the things he said! haha.