y do guys and girls look boyfriends or gfs like their mom/dad? y r there more mamas boys than mamas girls and more daddys girls that daddys boys?
2006-06-12 15:34:56 · 5 answers · asked by the5500 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Usually when a guy or girl looks for someone like there mom or dad its because they are young and want there partner to be excepted by the parents
2006-06-12 15:37:14 · answer #1 · answered by Kittie_Nash 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
the cross-gender parental relationship usually tends to be stronger. Freud tried explaining this through his Oedipal theories that males would view another male baby as a competitor for his wife's affections, and females view a female child as a competitor for the male (though not as much). Plus, people are hard-wired to nurture members of the opposite sex.
As for dating people like their parents, I think people are used to havign someone fulfill a certain role. If a guy has a real commanding mother, he will subconsciously seek out a commanding woman because that's the sort of relationship he's comfortable with. Pair him with a more submissive woman, and it just wouldn't feel right.
2006-06-12 15:42:17 · answer #2 · answered by Firstd1mension 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's pretty subconscious, but our parents are our blueprint for what the opposite sex is supposed to be and act like. So we often go for that sort of thing in a mate when we get older.
2006-06-12 16:03:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's all Freudian concepts. You know, the Oedipus Complex, where you want to kill your father and have sex with your mother (if you're a little boy.)
O_o Kinda weird, look it up in a psychology book lol. Or Yahoo! Psychology or something ROFL
2006-06-12 15:39:24 · answer #4 · answered by Brackalicious 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to much time on your hands to ask a straight foward question?
2006-06-12 15:38:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋