Have you turned into your mother??

Question

I've always looked like her, which is fine, my mother has always been very pretty. But,,,,,the mannerisms, I sit like her, I hold my hands the same way, I'll catch sight of myself with her exact exprewssion on my face. Little habits she has that I catch myself having. What's strange is that I was never around her much after I turned about 12 or so. Didn't see her at all during the 30s & 40s.

Thanks for all the responses, there is no way that I could pick a best ans. Tues at 10:00AM we turn it over to someone one else to vote on

Answer 1

I don't know about that. But my mother used to tell me that if I walked into a room, looked at something and made a comment, that my father would often walk in, look, and say the exact same thing word for word. Sorta creepy, eh? lol

Answer 2

I have ben told all my life that I look just like my Mother. She was attractive I guess, she was 40 when I was born to at 10 she looked old to me and it bugged me when peole said I looked like her!lol! As I have grown older I look more and more like her, we both have these jowls that hang almost over our jowls - hence the idea of a mini lift sounds good to me. lol! But my mother was a wonderful person in so many ways and I wish I was more like her, she had such a horrible childhood and her marriage to my dad was a difficult one at best but she was such a great mom and if I could be anything like her I would feel blessed. She died when I was 25, so I really didn't get to know her as an adult really as I was away in the Navy. When I look back on my life, I can't remember a time when I asked for advise that wasn't great. Lots of people loved her, I miss her a great deal especially around the holidays and more now that when I was young.

Answer 3

My best freind came to visit w/ her kids and she started laughing when she opened up my fridge ( very orginized just like Mom ) but really I have put in effort to be the opposite . She really was not one to have kids in the house...she kept most playing outside. She was a huge "neat feak" ...Don't sit on the couch and wrinkle the covers",Don't put your hands on the banister and leave hand marks...I could go on and on. Memories of Tom Jones playing and Murphys Oil soap filled the house. Me? I love kids running around the house and having sleepovers...I want a home not a house. I clean everyday and it's usally neat but I like seeing and hearing kids play. Also she seemed to have a really hard time getting older ( she was quite pretty in her day ). Me? Twenty is twenty and I'm not there anymore....I feel O.K w/ how I look for my age but no way would I dwell over not looking twenty...I like where I'm at in life and no-matter who you are there should be a point when you can let go of that and like the fact that you know you are a good person. So...instead of being the carbon of my Mom I took the way she was and have done the opposite and it works for me!!!

Answer 4

Sometimes it comes out in the strangest ways! My mother studied to be an opera singer and sang often around the house, to drown out the noise mostly. Years ago, when I was a young mother trying to get supper going, the babies were yelling, the radio playing, the dog barking, etc. All of a sudden, I burst out singing "Caro Nome" from Rigoletto. I stopped almost immediately, wondering where the heck that came from. Just a memory of my mother programmed into me, I guess!

Answer 5

Funny thing, after my mother died at 72, I was writing something one day, and I re-read it--and I was reading my words in my mother's handwriting! I still write like her sometimes, many years later. Go figure.

Sometimes, I look in the mirror and see her features looking back at me, but other than her work ethic which I seem to have inherited, and her stubborness, I am really not much like her at all.

My daughter, on the other hand, said something, don't remember just what, stopped and thought for a minute, and said, "Oh, My God, did you hear what I just said? I'm turning into my Mother!" Her husband, who knows us both well, often tells her she is "just like your mother!" Don't have any idea where he gets that.

Answer 6

I looked like my father most of my life. But now my sister and I both look a lot like my mother. If I can be as good a person as she was, then it will be a good thing. It is interesting how physical characteristics appear in children. A few years ago I noticed that my youngest son's hands were shaped just like his fathers. That's a good thing because my husband was one of the hardest workers I have ever known.

Answer 7

Yes. Every year I look more and more like her. She had a habit of twisting a hank of hair. I now catch myself doing it. I started in my 20s saying things to my children she said to my brothers and I. In the exact tone of voice ! Some of her and my dads old sayings unexpectedly come out of mouth and I though I had forgotten them. Life IS strange.

Answer 8

I look like my mom did,and I have her love for animals, and cry easily over sad and happy movies,but she never was able to stand up for herself,she was timid,fiercely loving of her family(me too)I definitely stand up for myself,and am not timid, I question doctors,as to why, I will be the first to call the store and tell them that they did not charge the correct price,and I can argue with hubby as well as anyone.I wish she had been more forceful,I swore I would never be the wimp she was.

Answer 9

yes, sometimes I think as i get older that I look more and more like my mom ( my husband doesn't think so at all) but she was actually a fun mom, she never judged my friends no matter what she would hear about them, she always gave them a chance... she didn't have her driver's license so she would always let us driver her around, even when we didn't have our license, she knew we all smoked and one day in the car, she said I know you are all smoking, so you might as well light up.... so... we did! but it was years before we ever smoked in front of my dad. Now, only 1 smokes out of 4.. she had her moods and so did I when I was a teenager, she is in her 70's now and she is funny... I know I will miss her when she is gone!

Answer 10

Not so suprising really when you consider that 50% of your
genes come from her.
Genetics is spooky.
The older I get the more like my mother I am, or is it I can only
remember the elderley bit of my mother. I talk, walk and even
whistle like her. I even have the habits that used to annoy me,
they now annoy my children.