Question About Families?

Question

Something I was just thinking about today. My friends husband and his mother jumped all over my friends case the other day over something completely petty and it wasnt even my friends doing. Her husband seems really close to his mom and sometime I think he acts like her as well. My brother acts a lot like my mom and sometimes they act like one in the same person. My husband acts nothing like his mom, I think it may be do to the fact that his mom lives thousands of miles away. Do men tend to act like their parents if they spend a good amount of time with them? Or this could also refer to women, although my husband says I am nothing like my mom. Do our parents have that much of an affect on us as adults? Are certain personalities heredetary?

Answer 1

Not hereditary, so much as impressionable. Just like a child seeing a parent smoking or drinking. It has a tendency to get into the child's mind as to what is right or wrong. If the parent is very close to the child and the child close to the parent, whatever that parent has empressed on that child as being right or wrong is subcontinently driven into there mind and they just don't know any better. Parents play a very key roll in how we act and what we do in life. If a man is a thief and doesn't try to teach a child any different, then more than likely that child will be a thief, unless of course the man get arrested and the child welfare department ends up with him or her. Then there may be a chance if the child is taken from the parent early enough to correct the problem.

Answer 2

I think a lot of it has to do with the way their mothers treated them growing up. If they were well taken care of and might be called 'mama's boys' then they probably have a closer relationship with their mom.

Answer 3

My brother and my mom are alike, and I'm nothing like them.

Answer 4

Yep!