Daddy Dilemma: Healing the Father Wound and the Patterns It Left Behind Paperback – April 1, 2026

If you grew up with a father who was absent, inconsistent, harmful, or emotionally unavailable, this book will feel like someone finally telling the truth you have carried your entire life.The Father Wound (or "Daddy Issues") does not require a dramatic story. It only requires that the man who was supposed to be your first mirror of worth, your first experience of safety, fell short of what you needed and that you adapted to survive it in ways that are still running your life today. It lives in why love feels like something you have to earn. In why patterns repeat even when you know better. In why rest feels dangerous and receiving feels uncomfortable.In Daddy Dilemma, Stephanie King, creator of the Father Wound Cycle™ walks you through the eight stages that form after early father wounds: how a child adapts, how those adaptations harden into identity, and how to finally interrupt the cycle for good.This is not a book about forgiving your father. It is not about blame.It is about understanding what shaped you, reclaiming who you are, and becoming the woman who no longer settles for less.You were never too much. You were never hard to love. You were simply a daughter who deserved more than what she received. Read more