6 Questions Every Father Should Ask His Future Son In-law

Updated: Sep 17, 2021
By Thaalith Abubakar Gimba
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Being a fatherly figure raises the brow of protection towards a man’s children. Therefore, you’d not blame them for throwing investigative journalism on every Tom, Dick, and Harry that wants to coexist with their child. Most fathers— if not every father, would want to know what calibre of person his little princess wishes to spend the rest of her life with is like. It’s a dream for every father to see his daughter have a fairytale of a marriage. As a father, you must frown at potential marriages in which their daughters would sojourn.  You need to carefully wield the words and the things to say to a son-in-law. So everything narrows down to you becoming a high profiled investigator whenever your daughters have found a lifetime partner. On top of that, every daddy is bound to make heroic deeds for his daughter’s sake.

Come on guys, let’s sail across the shores of some of the questions you should ask your future in-laws as you’re trying to separate the chaffs from the grains!

Questions Every Father Should Ask his Future Son In-law

1. What State is Your Son In-law From?

Here, you may want to know the state of origin. Fathers become curious as to where their potential son-in-law comes from. Asking this question is to assess whether the would-be son-in-law hails from a befittingly reputable place. A son-in-law would scale through once his future father-in-law respectably recognizes your state of origin.

Sometimes, as a father, you have a negative vibe to people from certain places. Having that kind of vibe makes you cringe. So you feel relax knowing your daughter is getting married to a person from a noteworthy place.

2. What Tribe Are from?

Tribe, over time, has been one of the most unavoidable questions fathers ask their future sons-in-law. It’s an aspect that must be in their book of criteria for screening the suitor. This question aims to crosscheck whether the son-in-law to be coming from a tribe he or his family has a strong liking for.

For instance, if the father of the girl is Nupe by tribe and the prospective son-in-law is Hausa, then, it goes without saying that he has failed eighty per cent of the inquiry already.

3. Which Family Does Your Son In-law Come From?

A popular proverb says thus, “A child is the reflection of every home.” Fathers, most times, make use of this concept to know who their future son-in-law is. This is connected to the aforesaid proverbial byword because when the would-be son-in-law’s family has a good name, it’s a plus for his daughter.

Even religiously, it is said that amongst the criteria for choosing your future spouse is good family background i.e nobility of the family. You could put it that the father is looking at some of the factors to consider before choosing a life partner for his princess.

4. What Do You Do Do For A Living?

It is expected that when a man wants to marry, he is expected to have something he does for a living. Every father wants to know whether his future son-in-law is a serious-minded one. Serious in the sense that he has a job in which he engages himself and can gladly cater for his daughter. No father wants to give out his daughter to an aimless son-inlaw.

It’s not all about getting married to a rich son-in-law as people often tend to misconstrue the objective of many fathers. Some will people understand better when they find themselves in the fatherly position.

5. Does Your Potential Son Inlaw Have A House?

Truth be told, fathers are much concerned over the son-in-law’s matrimonial home, for the comfort and convenience of their child. Any reasonable father stresses that structure called house. He wants to know where his daughter would live, be it the son-in-law’s own house, a rented apartment, or his family house.

As long as his daughter won’t be sleeping under a bridge, he’s okay by it. But if it has been discovered that the future son inlaw has no presentable place for shelter, then he’ll be screened out.

6. When Are You Bringing Your People over?

After all the litany of questions, after all, satisfactory feedbacks, every ideal father would want to meet the potential son-in-law’s people for proper marriage introduction and engagement.

This is the last thing every father is curious about whenever he’s hurling a fleet of questions to his would-be son-in-law. It is this question that shows a difference in real men that really want to get married to a man’s daughter.

Conclusion

In a nutshell, every father, deep inside him, dreads the day his little princess would leave his sight. It’s one of their worst miseries. Nevertheless, the reality is absolute and so, their daughters must take the bold step of moving away from their irreplaceable heroes.

Believe me, every father wants a numero uno son-in-law for his daughter which is why he creates a question session with him. It is a necessity to avoid regrets. So you can understand that this kind of love has no better words to describe it. That’s a father’s love for you. However, it is naturally safe to ask some of these questions. They are thoughtful questions to ask your in-law.

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