What happens to a man that grows up without a father

How does the lack of a father bonding shape the life of a man? When a man did not grow up with a secure relationship with his father, I want to tell you what that does. It's not only that it puts him at a disadvantage emotionally, where he feels a lack of safety and a lack of security, but much more. It creates in this man a life long quest to find that father figure. It becomes almost an obsession looking for masculine affection and masculine approval that I did not receive. And that quest can become all consuming. Now, to be fair, it also can cause people to be inordinately successful. Some of the most successful men are driven by that desire to attach to a father that they never had. But all told, the effect is that it creates this void and this vacuum that sends men on a constant journey trying to find something that's missing. Sometimes they don't even know that that's what they're looking for. I may surprise you when I tell you that the only way that I have consistently seen men with this issue resolve this lack is through deep spirituality, specifically forming a father-son relationship with a higher power, with their creator, with God, and feeling the love, the acceptance, the pride, the approval that comes from God Almighty that they never received from their biological father, from the person who raised them.