HOW TO ASK FOR HER DAD’S PERMISSION LIKE A GOOD LITTLE BOY You can’t trust your girlfriend to make a decision for herself. Yes, she has her own apartment and pays her own bills, but when it comes down to making big decisions like who to bone, her father knows best. It’s a longstanding tradition to ask for the father’s blessing, harkening back to the days when women were just part of a dowry transaction. It’s like trading livestock. Would you just run onto a farm and start having sex with one of the sheep? No, you’d check with the farmer first!