Why do married couples always seem to look like eachother?

Question

After a while, it seems that married couples kinda end up looking like eachother. Anyone know why?

*sigh*
SOMETIMES.
Happy now?

Answer 1

This is an easy answer. The wife buys all the crap for them both to wear.

Answer 2

I've seen a dog and its owner look alike.

Spend enough time around someone (or something), you automatically start to look like them. I think it's in the way facial muscles move to express themselves. You automatically copy. It's subconscious; subliminal.

Know how we all have a certain way of saying things, a certain tone to our voice? Well I've noticed that after a while, my workmates will start to say things the way I do, and I also do the same, because I overhear them speaking all the time, without even being conscious of it.

I wouldn't mind looking like my wife a little. A little beauty balances things out, right?

A lot of couples that have been married for like half a century look like brother and sister after that long.

Answer 3

Because when 2 people get married the become one and when they are in love they look like eachother. I looked just like my best friend in high school because we use to be together all the time, we looked like sisters... at least thats what people use to say now she moved away we dont look alike anymore but we are still friends. I think its just a matter of being together all the time youjust start to resemble eachother.

Answer 4

Yes, it is because of the amount of time they spend together. They end up picking up each others' facial expressions and mannerisms.

Perhaps part of the reason some couple look like each other physically is because many women (who had a good relationship with their father) are attracted to men that remind them of their fathers. Its not like women are attracted to their fathers, it's just that is what they grew up knowing as a "good man". Naturally women have some of their fathers genetic makeup and look like their father, and if they are attracted to men that look like their father then the men they are attracted to will look a little like themselves (confusing, sorry). There was an article about it on yahoo awhile back.

Answer 5

I read an article on msn a while back that was about a study that said a lot of people are attracted to people who look like themselves or have certain traits that are very similar to the traits they have.
Its kinda just about all the chemistry involved with attraction

I think also when your with someone for a while you start to dress more alike and take on traits the other person has like ways they move or faces they make or hand gestures they make.

Answer 6

Their personality wears off on each other. A lot of what you see as similarities is really sparked by their mannerisms (common sayings, hand gestures, facial expressions, etc.) I've seen a lot of adopted children grow up to look just like one or the other adoptive parent. Also physical appearance, skinny or plump, they're eating the same meals - healthy diet or otherwise.

Answer 7

The first reason would be that we spend so much time together we pick up each other's habits, expressions, mannerisms.
The second reason is that normally the wife ends up dressing the husband like she wants him to dress. (Face it fellas, a t-shirt and tennis shoes are not appropriate for all venues!!!) You tend to begin mirroring these things when you're dating, kind of matching your styles to each other.

Answer 8

Don't know why, but when I was younger I used to think most married couples were actually brothers and sisters!
It's the same with dog owners, have you noticed how their dogs resemble them, sometimes in looks and sometimes in character (closeted character too)

Answer 9

Well I'm a slim white guy 5'6" tall and 138 pounds and my beautiful beloved wife Marlene is a Black Jamaican lady 5'9" tall and 350 pounds. I don't think we'll ever get to look like each other

Answer 10

LOL, this is true isnt it. It doesnt even have to happen over time, my husband and I started right off the bat looking like each other. The first time I went to my husbands office after he had introduced me as his wife his boss told me he thought I was his sister not his wife.

I guess its because we tend to choose mates that remind us of our parents (fathers for girls, mothers for boys) and we must choose this way in looks as well, so if we choose a man who looks like our fathers then we naturally look like our dads, so we'll look like our husbands too. Thats my best guess.

Answer 11

I think it's because they are together a lot, they end up sometimes even wearing the same type of clothes and saying the same things... which of course makes them look llike each other a lot more... it's loooove