He Tried To Dance With His Daughter At Her Wedding, And Then He Got Into A Heated Argument With Her Father-In-Law, So His Daughter Made Him Leave
Relationships between fathers and daughters aren’t always perfect. In this particular case, this 52-year-old father and his daughter Jane, 28, have always had a strained relationship.
He admits that throughout her life, he wasn’t the best father figure. Looking back, he can acknowledge and accept that fact. However, he said that he’s a changed man now after a tragedy that changed his entire life.
Horrifically, he was in a car accident that left him with not much feeling in his legs. He now uses a wheelchair, and while he can still walk, he’s only able to walk short distances and doesn’t have much balance.
He believes that this terrible event changed him on a deep level. It inspired him to be a better person and make more positive decisions in his life.
However, while attending Jane’s wedding last weekend, he wonders if he wasn’t following his newly found philosophy of being a better man.
At the wedding, Jane’s brother walked her down the aisle. He said that he understood Jane’s decision, considering that he hadn’t been there for her when she was growing up.
Before the wedding happened, he’d also found out from his wife (Jane’s mom) that Jane was planning on dancing with her father-in-law for the traditional father-daughter dance during the wedding reception. Since he assumed Jane made this decision because he struggles to walk, he came up with a plan.
“So, with the help of my wife, I worked on strengthening my legs in secret so I could surprise Jane at her wedding and dance with her.”
When the father-daughter dance was announced during the wedding reception, he enacted his plan. He rolled his wheelchair to the group of people gathered around Jane, stood up, and began walking toward her.
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The wedding guests started talking and clapping as they watched, and he said that he felt good about this plan to surprise his daughter. But this suddenly changed once he was only about six feet away from Jane and saw her reaction.
“Jane started shaking her head and frowning at me, but I kept walking anyway. She started shouting, ‘No!’ and telling me to sit down, but I just couldn’t believe that she was saying this, so I shouted back that I was coming to dance with her as her father,” he explained.
However, Jane didn’t accept the idea of letting him dance with her for the father-daughter dance. Jane was visibly upset and told him that she’d dance with him later, and she would be dancing with her father-in-law for the father-daughter dance.
While he could have accepted Jane’s choice, he couldn’t at the time. Instead, he got closer to Jane and reached out for her hand. He hoped he could change Jane’s mind and make her understand that he was doing this for her.
Then, the dramatic situation intensified, even turning physical.
“Her father-in-law reached out and blocked me from Jane by putting his hand on my chest. So then, this is where I might have messed up. I told him to back up and leave me alone. Our argument got pretty heated before some people stepped in and separated us.”
After that, Jane told him to leave. He said that he would do so if she truly wanted him to, and when she confirmed that that was what she wanted, he left the reception.
During the altercation, he said that he received a lot of dirty looks and that his son yelled at him and called his actions “selfish.”
He wonders if he made a mistake since he’s trying to be a better person and father than he’s been in the past, and he wants to listen to his children.
Later, he said that he realizes he was in the wrong and wants to apologize to Jane, but he doesn’t know how to go about it.
One of his ideas is to go to his daughter’s place to talk to her, and another idea is going through his son and having his son set up a time and place for him and Jane to meet and talk things out.
Apparently, Jane may have already blocked him, and she may have blocked his wife, too.
Do you think he made a mistake by trying to dance with Jane during her father-daughter dance against her wishes?
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