The Day My Daughter Asked Me To Love Again

A Single-Parent Widower Romance.When his ten-year-old daughter quietly asks if he will ever love again, a widowed engineer is forced to decide whether the school counsellor who helped heal their grief is part of his future or a line he must never cross.Raghav knows how to keep bridges standing. As a civil engineer, he spends his days calculating loads and stress points, making sure concrete survives the worst the river can throw at it. At home, though, nothing feels stable. Two years after losing his wife to a sudden illness, he is still walking through a flat full of echoes, raising his ten-year-old daughter, Mira, with the help of a sharp-tongued but fiercely loyal mother-in-law who refuses to let the world pity them.Mira’s grief does not look like his. It ambushes her in school corridors, in the hospital beeps she hears in her dreams, in the way thunder turns her into a small, shaking statue. When the school counsellor, Anika, starts working with her, their world begins to tilt in a different direction. On a deep blue rug in a small room, Mira learns how to breathe through storms, how to name the knot in her chest, how to be a child again instead of the 'woman of the house' everyone told her she had to become.What Raghav does not expect is how much he needs that room too. In late-afternoon sessions with another therapist, Saira, he is finally forced to admit that guilt has been dictating his life: guilt for laughing, guilt for sleeping, guilt for even imagining a future that does not revolve around loss. Between bridge inspections and parent-teacher meetings, he slowly trades silence for language, engineering diagrams for emotional maps.Then, one ordinary evening on their cramped balcony, Mira asks the question that quietly changes everything: 'Will you ever think about loving someone again?' Raghav’s first answer is honest and incomplete: 'I don’t know.' But once spoken, the question will not leave. As Mira grows stronger and Anika starts stepping back from being her primary counsellor, the boundaries that once felt solid blur into something more complicated. The woman who taught his daughter to survive thunderstorms has also become the one person who understands his own late-night fears-and the one person he is terrified of hurting by loving.The Day My Daughter Asked Me To Love Again is a slow-burn, emotionally rich widower romance about learning to build a second life without tearing down the first. It follows a father who has forgotten how to want anything for himself, a child who refuses to carry everyone’s grief alone, a counsellor caught between ethics and affection, and a grandmother who will threaten to make everyone sleep on the balcony if they forget what really matters.Set against the everyday backdrop of school corridors, rainy bridges, and a small balcony that becomes a family’s unofficial meeting room, this novel explores what happens when love is asked for instead of announced. If you enjoy single-parent romances with real-world stakes, therapy-positive storylines, and endings that honour both old scars and new possibilities, this story is written for you.