The first man who teaches you about love isn't always the one who says he loves you.

Long before your first relationship, your father—or the absence of him—began shaping the way you experience love, trust, safety, and connection.

In Who Taught You How to Love?, author, psychology graduate, and storyteller Coco Farmani takes readers on a deeply personal journey through the lasting influence of the father-daughter relationship. Blending personal stories with research in attachment theory, developmental psychology, trauma, neuroscience, and emotional healing, she explores how our earliest experiences become the blueprint for the relationships we build as adults.

Whether your father was absent, emotionally unavailable, inconsistent, overly critical, or simply unable to meet your emotional needs, this book offers understanding, compassion, and practical insight into how those experiences can shape your self-worth, boundaries, attraction, emotional availability, and capacity to love.

Inside you'll discover:

• What "Daddy Issues" really mean through the lens of psychology

• How attachment theory explains the relationships we choose

• The neuroscience of love, trauma, and emotional healing

• How father presence, absence, and emotional availability influence adult relationships

• Why we repeat unhealthy relationship patterns

• Why we're often drawn to emotionally unavailable partners

• How to recognize and heal the hidden father wound

• Practical reflections to help rebuild self-worth, strengthen boundaries, and create healthier relationships

More than a psychology book, Who Taught You How to Love? is an invitation to better understand your past so you can transform your future.

Because healing doesn't begin when someone finally loves you.

Healing begins when you understand who first taught you what love was.

Perfect for readers interested in attachment theory, relationship psychology, trauma recovery, emotional healing, self-discovery, and personal growth.

By CoCo Farmani, the creator of the Web of Love podcast and the author of the psychological thriller series 12 Sessions: The Forensic Truth, The Osei Letter, and Department 47. Also by CoCo, The Psychology of Men Understanding the Hidden Psychology Behind Love, Attraction, and Relationships.