{"id":61763,"date":"2021-04-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/61763\/18-ways-lebanese-dads-show-love"},"modified":"2021-04-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T00:00:00","slug":"18-ways-lebanese-dads-show-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/61763\/18-ways-lebanese-dads-show-love\/","title":{"rendered":"18 Ways Lebanese Dads Show Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanese dads don&#8217;t ACTUALLY have to say they love you, they&#8217;d rather show it. Here are a few strange ways Lebanese dads show love.<\/p>\n<p>  <B>1. Buying you tons of something you said you wanted the day before<\/B><\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;3abele karaz&#8221; *comes home with 15kg karaz the next day*<\/p>\n<p>  <B>2. Letting you drive before you even get your license<\/B><\/p>\n<p>  Is it to show love or train his new personal chauffeur? We&#8217;ll never know.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media2.giphy.com\/media\/qQJ1xyQXVuVfW\/giphy.gif\"width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <B>3. Comparing himself to your friends&#8217; dads<\/B><\/p>\n<p>  The embodiment of &#8220;ana bayye 2a2wa men bayyak&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  <B>4. Making you cry at the kitchen table when teaching you math<\/B><\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;WLEK WHAT&#8217;S 2&#215;10?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;MA BA3REF&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  <B>5. Having inside jokes about your mom together<\/B><\/p>\n<p>  Mom hates us for this.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gifer.com\/PGrj.gif\"width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <B>6. Acting cool in front of your friends<\/B><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/OfJUsyP5uk1zy\/giphy.gif\"width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <B>7. Saying &#8220;s2al emmak&#8221; when you need something<\/B><\/p>\n<p>  He wants to say yes but knows your mom will kill you both.<\/p>\n<p>  <B>8. Making dad jokes<\/B><\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Baddak tesma3 nekte sari3a?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Sure&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Kholset&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  <B>9. Getting you some breakfast before you wake up<\/B><\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;fi knefe bil matbakh&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  <B>10. Making fun of your mom in front of you when she&#8217;s not around<\/B><\/p>\n<p>  Momma didn&#8217;t raise a snitch.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media1.giphy.com\/media\/f6PYjcBs05cuyy1QBp\/giphy.gif\"width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <B>11. Getting competitive when talking about your cousins<\/B><\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Nehna ahsan mennon&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  <B>12. Letting you stay up to watch movies with him<\/B><\/p>\n<p>  We love breaking the rules together.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/11vsrRFqhjOcKI\/giphy.gif\"width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <B>13. Not letting you go out with your friends for the most bizarre reasons<\/B><\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;La2 dakheelak jeye 3asfe&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media0.giphy.com\/media\/fd1TSJqq3b4GI\/200.gif\"width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <B>14. Replying with a thumbs up emoji to ALL your texts<\/B><\/p>\n<p>  Or &#8220;K&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>  <B>15. Acting like he forgot your birthday<\/B><\/p>\n<p>  But he actually had a surprise prepared. He forgets it any other day of the year though.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media0.giphy.com\/media\/uWnplYHZMnD4Td9MbP\/source.gif\"width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <B>16. Acting 20 years younger than he actually is<\/B><\/p>\n<p>  Okay dad.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/equity.guru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/homie.gif\"width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <B>17. Constantly reminding you that he&#8217;s the best dad ever<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media4.giphy.com\/media\/UtDNZTtiBpilC3R75Z\/giphy.gif\"width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <B>18. Making fun of you over anything<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  Does your dad really love you if he doesn&#8217;t bully the hell out of you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanese dads don&#8217;t ACTUALLY have to say they love you, they&#8217;d rather show it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":432555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ai_generated_summary":"","_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-61763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listomania"],"authorship":[144],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>18 Ways Lebanese Dads Show Love<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lebanese dads don&#039;t ACTUALLY have to say they love you, 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