my stepdaughter and my husband.

i think most of the parents feel so about their children. my parents also worry much about me when i go out to work. recently there was a riot in a area taht i travel through. they are taht much worried that the called me repeatedly. i think its natuaral.

Do you have any children and if so, are they driving age? My son always gets the family laughing at the holiday dinner table telling the stories about when he was 16 and first had his drivers license. I would look at the weather channel to determine whether I thought it was safe for him to drive in the winter. The way he tells it is that I would say, "it's going to snow in three days, better not drive the car"! Everyone gets a big yuck out of that. Some people are natural born worriers and some are not. In this day and age, you take your life in your hands to drive a few blocks to the grocery store. I think it's great that your husband worries about his daughter and just wants peace of mind to know that she is safe. For what it's worth, it sounds like he's a pretty great dad!

It's a natural thing to worry so much over our kids. I get that sick feeling when I hear sirens right before my kids get from school. So I think your husband being a worry wart is normal. He needs to tell his daughter to answer her phone so he doesn't worry even more than needed. I will worry even more when mine start driving, and every accident I hear I will think it's them, it's a parent thing.

You can't blame your husband if he worries about her daughter as there was a news of accident on her way too. The second reason why he's worried is because her daughter is not answering her cell phone. So, if it's the other way around with your own daughter, will you not be worried? It is a natural reaction of parents to check on their children if news of accident like that happen.

My husband would behave the same exact way. He's the worrier. I'm the optimist so although I do worry sometimes, most of the time I'm alot more relaxed about where the kids are or what they're doing. -Tink

well, I believe every father will worry about their daughters. well, she is a daughter anyway. most people will worry about their daughters more than about their sons. maybe if she had been a son, not a daughter, your husband wouldn't have worried about it too much.

Are we to take it that your stepdaughter is your hubby's blood daughter? If so, I think it's quite understandable that her not answering her cellphone caused some concern in his mind. Yes, we might be considered to be worrying too much... my kids have often told me that myself, but sometimes, a strange feeling hits you when you learn of accidents on routes where loved ones are travelling and your natural instinct is to check that they're ok. I can understand that, in your hubby. With all that goes on in the World today, it's not really surprising that parents get uptight, I guess. Don't be too hard on him... he's just a caring Dad. Brightest Blessings.

see i am like your hubby and my hubby is like you. i worry about everything all the time. you just can't help it its who i am. its hard sometimes and i wish i could be different but haven't figured out how to change it. i am really bad now that i have kids.

I can relate to your hubby's worry. do you have children that are old enough to drive? Last nite the weather turned horrible. My 21 year old had left to go visit a friend and was to be "right" back. Dinner time came and went and the weather worsened. I tried to call her cell...no answer. I tried to call off and on for a few hours and then got busy on here so as not to dwell on it. Without even hearing of an accident I was worried so much about her. She ended up staying at her friend's and her cell didn't have reception there. Whenever the roads are bad or I hear of an accident enroute to where one of my girls is driving, I always worry until I hear otherwise.

I think when someone is a parent it's second nature to worry about their children all the time..I know I do...Also sometimes parents can get bad feelings that somethings wrong is some cases it turns out to be wrong but in alot it doesn't...I'm glad to know that the accident didn't involve your step daughter that is great news.

Nope. Seems like a natual reaction to me. And one I've had myself. When the weather is really bad, I even ask my husband to call me so that I know he got there alright. And there is a reason we chose a school within walking distance from our house. Better safe than sorry. It'll give him peace of mind. Which in the long run will give you peace in marriage.

If it had of been my daughter I would have been on the phone too, they don't grive yet but when they do I will be very worried about accidents on there routes for sure. I think he is a great dad for being worried. I worry about my hubby when I hear of accidents on his routes to work and I try calling his cell phone to make sure he is ok. I don't think he worries to much it is just natural to worry about your children in that way.

There are a lot of people out there that worry about things like that especially if it might have something to do with there child. Children are so precious and know body wants to take the chance in losing them because you can't bring them back once there gone but people have to realize though that you can't always be there to protect someone and if something does happen to that person that they have to realize that it is fate and it was probably meant to be.

I will remarry soon. Your story made me wonder whether stepparents don't care about step-kids. It is natural reaction for a parent to worry about his/her kid when there was an accident on the highway the kid was on. Why don't you worry about her? Because you are a step-mother? I don't know. But I want my husband to worry about my daughter as her birth-father does.

I'm with your husband on this one. I worry about my kids all the time even when I know they are safe....I keep checking on them. In today's world, one can't help but worry about things like this. I would be worried too if my child was at the same place as an accident and I wasn't sure if he/she was involved. I don't know if all parents worry this way...but I do and most of the people I know do too.

I can understand why your husband would have been worried. He had tried to call his daughter's cell phone and she didn't answer and he knew there had been a wreck so he worried about her. My dad is like that with me. And he's more so like that to me than he is my brother. I think it's just a daughter-dad thing. But since I'm a parent I worry about more stuff now than I did before I was a parent.

hi chrislotz. ^__^ i think it is natural for your husband to worry about his daughter. a lot of people might be driving that way to go to work same as his daughter but we really don't know when or to whom accidents might happen. it might be over reacting but he's just playing his role being a father, worrying like that. you just have to put yourself into his shoes and i'm sure you'll understand him. ^__^

She is your step daughter, but she is not his step daughter. She is like thousand other girls went to their school for you. But she is one special of thousands for him. Because she is not her stepdaughter. This is difference between a daughter and step daughter. He has right to think and take of worries about his daughter as he is her real father.

It's only natural for the parent to worry. I'm 26 years old and i know my mom and dad still worry about me. Especially when there is a routine in hand. Like I call my parents around the same time every nite to chat and to see how they are doing. If I do not call aroudnd that time they worry until they hear from me. You should just go with it and let him worry because theres no way he is gonna stop. And eventually it might make him think that maybe you don't care enough. So let him worry

Yes my partner is extremely worried all the time. He is very safety conscious. But I think he is worried all the time as he lost his brother 7 years ago in a mining accident and ever since he is always worried about losing people. Everytime I go out for a drive, he always tells me drive safely. He really is worried that I will have a crash. Sometimes it annoys me as I do not like him to even think about me crashing all the time. Today he freaked out too as when he woke up i was not there. I was at the shops, but he thought something had happened to me. I think some people are just extra cautious probably because they are scared of losing their loved ones. They may have had bad experiences in past.