Just realized girls I am most attracted to all look like my mom when she was young

Jive Turkey · May 17, 2016, 08:54:26 PM

So ever since I can remember there has been a specific, almost like a template, type of face that I IMMEDIATELY fall in love with whenever a girl resembles it. Like I find these girls beautiful above all else.

Well my mom was showing me her wedding photos of her and my dad (they were both 23) and My mind was blown when I realized that she looks exactly like the types of girls that I mentioned above.

Closest Example of the "type" I could find on short notice

Spoiler

IDK what to think man. **No Oedipus**

Bonewheel Barry · May 17, 2016, 09:00:57 PM

Yes Oedipus.

Really, it's likely because your mother was an attractive person and you are attracted to attractive people. I dunno, that's all I got.

Mr. Psychologist · May 17, 2016, 09:08:36 PM

Off the top of my head it might be to do with genetic attraction syndrome/theory (probably buggered up the name a bit) where people who have a high degree of consanguinity and didn't form the eh i forget the word too (3am posting woo) something like typical inhibitory response (translation: grew up together) are predisposed to being attracted to one another.

Hence the weird stories of people falling in love with someone and finding out they are siblings separated at birth or unknown cousins etc.

It might not apply for this but it's what came to mind after reading the thread title, there was a BBC article/news report on it a bit ago over a court case I think.

If you can read that^ kudos because I sure as shit can't
ayy lmao

Coomer · May 17, 2016, 09:16:34 PM

Ok Jim

The Hån · May 18, 2016, 12:04:40 AM

lol op wants to bang his mum.

MyNameIsCharlie · May 18, 2016, 12:34:54 AM

Your mom's hot. Got any nudes?

Jive Turkey · May 18, 2016, 11:43:44 AM

Quote from: Mr. Psychologist on May 17, 2016, 09:08:36 PM

Off the top of my head it might be to do with genetic attraction syndrome/theory (probably buggered up the name a bit) where people who have a high degree of consanguinity and didn't form the eh i forget the word too (3am posting woo) something like typical inhibitory response (translation: grew up together) are predisposed to being attracted to one another.

Hence the weird stories of people falling in love with someone and finding out they are siblings separated at birth or unknown cousins etc.

It might not apply for this but it's what came to mind after reading the thread title, there was a BBC article/news report on it a bit ago over a court case I think.

If you can read that^ kudos because I sure as shit can't
ayy lmao

wat

Jive Turkey · May 18, 2016, 11:45:29 AM

Quote from: MyNameIsCharlie on May 18, 2016, 12:34:54 AM

Your mom's hot. Got any nudes?

Thats not my mom that's a girl I matched on Tinder lol, but she looks similar to my mom when she was young

Jive Turkey · May 18, 2016, 11:47:24 AM

FML my mom is model face/10 but my dad is kinda ugly/average so that's why I turned out only a bit above average facially

Mr. Psychologist · May 18, 2016, 11:57:03 AM

Quote from: Jive Turkey on May 18, 2016, 11:43:44 AM

Quote from: Mr. Psychologist on May 17, 2016, 09:08:36 PM
Off the top of my head it might be to do with genetic attraction syndrome/theory (probably buggered up the name a bit) where people who have a high degree of consanguinity and didn't form the eh i forget the word too (3am posting woo) something like typical inhibitory response (translation: grew up together) are predisposed to being attracted to one another.

Hence the weird stories of people falling in love with someone and finding out they are siblings separated at birth or unknown cousins etc.

It might not apply for this but it's what came to mind after reading the thread title, there was a BBC article/news report on it a bit ago over a court case I think.

If you can read that^ kudos because I sure as shit can't
ayy lmao
wat

My thoughts exactly

Kinda why I don't post late at night anymore gg

What I think I was trying to say was that there might be a genetic/biological explanation for why you find people resembling your own genetic lineage attractive.