Hey, here's a crazy idea.

[Gnisy]

I usually hear my elders saying that once a man and his wife live together long enough, they tend to look like each other.
Anyone else heard of this?

With relevance to this, they also said that newlyweds that resemble each other are predicted to have a happier and longer marriage than those who don't.
Anyone else heard of that?

I don't know who said it but let's pretend for a minute that both of the above is true.

So I got thinking, if the genetic part of mom that makes her feel attracted to dad, and the genetic part of dad that makes him feel attracted to mom, were both passed down to me, the effect is that I would have an innate instinct that makes me attracted to someone that is a combinant of me dad and me mom, hence someone that looks like me. Is this crazy hypothesis enough to bear truth to what is believed to be just a fisherman wife's tale?

[vehelpfulguy]

I think it is more likely that after years of looking at yourself in the mirror you naturally go for someone who looks like you.

Many couple do look like each other.

[magicdice]

It's about gene-propagation, I think. If you have children with someone who vaguely resembles you, then there'll probably be no real abundance of dominant genes that your other half has, but you don't, and so it's more likely that more of your genes will get passed on to your children. I think that's the biological way of looking at it, but what vehelpfulguy said also sounds like a good reason for why people consciously choose people who look similar to themselves.

[boobesque]

its not so much as people who look like you but people with the same level of beauty (or ugliness). i cant remember who but someone did a study showing a panel pictures of lots of people and asking them to rate their attractiveness. each of the people in the pictures was one half of a couple and each half tended to get roughly the same beauty rating ie, a woman with a 9 would more than likely be with a man with a 9.
this says nothing about the reason however and we can only theorise that maybe it has something to do with confidence. would Mr bean try and chat up cameron diaz? probably not but bradd pitt might as pitt may have a chance based on his looks being in the same range as diaz.

no Mr beans were harmed during the typing of this answer

[vicalncraig]

The longer a couple live together they will both get to look the same.......sad, dejected, miserable.......

[stanleyman]

I don't think it is true at all. I'm tall, slim, handsome, all my own hair, teeth, fingers and toes. She on the otherhand is short, overweight, wears dentures and glasses, has a contagious skin problem, varicous veins, stretch marks, flat feet, grey thining hair and has a long beard and moustache, we are perfectly happy together.

[Gnisy]

There is something about narcissism, leonardo da vinci and mona lisa that would be relevant to this question, only problem is I can't remember the connection. Sigh.

stanleyman real lucky