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you can, go for it

Similarly to how you are with your son, but over time, with more listening. Visit and support and express love and share their lives. Many daughters-in-law and fathers-in-law develop father-daughter relationships.

It probably helps if you have daughters of your own. If not, perhaps some fathers with close relationships with their daughters will chime in. If not, ask some of your friends with daughters.

And don't worry about filling in his shoes, per se. Just be there and support them.

Perhaps you asked because you're insecure. If that's true, let that go. If it runs deep, it's best to get to the bottom of it. You have no reason to be insecure. Or, better said, all your reasons to be insecure are imaginary, made up, invented. They have a bit to do with an event, but mostly to do with what you made up after the event. Or they have something to do with many events, but mostly with what you concluded about the pattern. If you dig and dig deep enough, you'll discover the whole insecurity is made up... If you want more help with this, you're welcome to email me.

Though now that I think about it, why DO you ask this question to us mostly unqualified advice-givers?

There is no filling those shoes because you will not fit them... All you can do is be there for her and love her as a father should but you cannot fill that void. Just be there for her.

U can't. Do not be ridiculous. U can not take his place. U can comfort her as a responsible adult, but U will never be him. Don't even think in those terms.