You see it right off,  where the mother daughter stuff starts !  Perhaps day one as you whisper good night to the newly born "princess" your little daughter that has captured your heart, and your wife smiles up and says "good night, I love you too" thinking that was for her.

 

You'll have to keep on reminding your wife how awesome and amazing and how she's still and always will be your first love.  She'll expect you to get behind her when your daughter is 13 and driving  her  nuts. That's when - if you have not totally abandoned your wife  she'll listen to you as you remind her not to rearrange all your daughters molecules and won't  instead turn on you too!  Unresolved issues in the mother often are revisited as their daughters crest these ages reminding the mother of her own unfinished business. This is where the daughter's self esteem can take a pounding and the dads sometimes can't get it to stop.  The daughters pay for this psychic attack from their mothers, and the mothers seem helpless to stop.

If you read:  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs...it gives you an idea of how crazy it can get with jealous envy of her daughters innocence and beauty. It doesn't happen right away, along  about 13 years or so. From 13-18 those five years are where you can really harvest a good crop of gray hair. In the story the King leaves home for war for as many years avoiding all the travesty. Sometimes this happens and the daughter is abandoned by both parents.