In a pleasant December night, when she was three and a half, she was tucked into her bed a carefree toddler with a complete family around. She woke up without a mother.
“My mother had been taken during the night by a heart attack - leaving three daughters under the age of ten, my father a widower at thirty-three, and me a lifetime of wondering what I missed,” Teresia Ayimba tells of the fateful day when she lost her mother.
The most important person in a young girl’s life? Her father. That’s right-and psychology expert Dr. Lincoln Imbuga has the data and clinical experience to prove it. After years of counseling girls, she knows that fathers, more than anyone else, set the course for their daughters’ lives.…show more content… According to Ayimba, life with a single father wasn’t anything different, or special, or traumatising -though concerns in people’s faces anytime she mentioned that they grew up with a single father.
She admits that the hole created by her mother’s loss never fully closed, and spent both her personal and professional lives probing the meaning of that absence.
However, as time went on she began accepting her fate and appreciating the good relationship she had with her father. Ayimba is now in the dating scene, ironically enough is the fact that her boyfriend has qualities same as the father.
“See I don’t get why but I tend to fall for huge guys-my father is a big man too. My father is the perfect example of what to do, and he also taught us a valuable lesson on what the right man ought not to do,” she says.
Society paints a single father as some kind of rare scenario but when life forces this ‘rare scenario’ into reality the dads have to take up this role whole
