For the mature, do you ever get used to seeing your parent's face looking back at you in the mirror?

Question

I look more like my mother every day, sometimes in the morning it really gives me a jolt. WIll I get used to it ever?

Answer 1

It's kind of weird that after my mom died my dad said it was hard to have me around because I looked so much like her. But now, 10 years after she died, I look more like my father--same crinkles around my mouth, same jawline, same bright blue eyes (they used to be more gray). My brother, on the other hand, has more of my mother's traits--weird indeed!

Answer 2

Eventually you get used to it and accept it as something you can't control. Nature takes its course and you have to learn to roll with the punches. The thing I noticed most when my mother was starting to age was her "fan-pleated' lips. Now I have them. I just think of all the people who didn't have a chance to know what their parents looked like, so instead of focusing on the negative, I focus on the positive. I'm still here...and so is she. And for 61, I don't look so bad for an old broad. :)

Answer 3

LOL, I see my mother more and more in the mirror too, and you're right it is a suprise. Yeah, you get used to it, but relatives I haven't seen in awhile comment on the resembleance more now, than they ever did when I was younger. I'm 48.

Answer 4

Never, as it certainly drives my wife bonkers as she sees her mother looking back at her