Why do you think a lot of couples look alike?

Question

I have been noticing this a lot lately. I bumped into an old girlfriend lately, but before I saw her.. I saw her boyfriend who I had not yet met and thought immediately of her (like I saw her face in him... strange I know). She then came up behind him and I realised it was her boyfriend.

Answer 1

Maybe it is so if the woman get pregnant while cheating the baby will still resemble her husband/boyfriend.

Answer 2

Like Milhouse's parents Kirk and Lou-Anne Van Houten

Answer 3

they say couples that look alike are meant for each other....(soul mates)

Answer 4

its called tend to gravitate towards familiar things and whats more familiar than yourself.

Answer 5

could be your psychic and a ghost has superimposed their face on her boyfriends face that is her relative.lol

Answer 6

It's possible we're attracted to people who look similar and associate it with similar interests...

Or you know when you're in a relationship for awhile and you start to dress alike without realizing it? You're so close you start subconsciously imitating the other person. Maybe it's something like that.

Answer 7

I have never noticed this however - I do think there are large groups of people who look very much alike but are not blood relatives - this is obviously due to alien-human hybrid clones who have reproduced over the last few centuries ...

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ok, I'm just kidding - but does anyone remember the X-Files episode that suggested a similar scenario?!?  A fascinating notion.

As for couples looking a like - I'm more apt to believe people and their dogs looks a like.

Hope you find THE answer.

Answer 8

I pity any man who resembles me...I'd be constantly fixing his hair..putting make up on him..putting him on a diet..making him wear perfume. He might even end up with botox or plastic surgery. I think it would be AWFUL to have a boyfriend who looks like me. I'd be VERY critical of him...soul mate or not. I do believe it's important for people to have common interests though.

Answer 9

It helps to keep  humor in any relationship.....resembling one another  can  be a compliment or a challenge to be sure!!!    certainly makes life  interesting and sometimes  very perplexing!!!!  Life is short, eat lots of chocolate!!!!!

Answer 10

It has been suggested that women seek men who remind them of their fathers and men seek women who remind them of their mothers. Then as they grow older, they more resemble brother and sister, hence each other.

Answer 11

You look at your self in a mirror and when your see a look-a-like you get a familiar face your drawn to!?

You ever notice that people look like their dogs too. Same thing, kind of narcissistic and a little creepy too!

Answer 12

One thing, opposites do NOT attract.  People with similar lifestyles and values tend to gravitate towards each other.

Answer 13

I have seen some couples where the people resemble each other.  That makes it more noticeable than when you see the far more common case of couples that don't look a thing alike.

Outward appearance indicates nothing about the person on the inside, so looking alike doesn't mean they were meant for each other.  I could look just like a woman who happens to be a complete witch.  That doesn't mean we were meant for each other.

Answer 14

when 2 ppl talk 2 each other,you can c a lot of mirroring..one smiles & so does da other.....Faces are like melodies with a natural urge to stay in sync.Multiplythese movements by several decades of marrige or a lot of time with another prson and its no wonder............