Are you like your mother?

I personally can't see any resemblance to either of my parents (though 40+years ago a friend looked at my wedding photos and said, on looking at my dad, there's no mistaking whose daughter you are. I do, however, frequently see my eldest sister looking out at me from the mirror!

Having seen pictures of my birth mother I certainly look like her. No idea about my birth father! Cousins and uncles have said that I have a similar nature and share some of her mannerisms. Unfortunately I have to take their word for that as she died many years ago.

Definitely my mum and one aunty.

We are/were all Hobbits (commonly known was the 'all t-t and as-o brigade) fortunately though without the big feet.

I have my father's eyes but I hope I haven't inherited anything from my mother.

Increasingly so. Especially since I stopped colouring my hair.
I also find myself copying her mannerisms

I see myself increasingly resembling mine - never saw it until recently. But trying to decide on a name for DD2, the morning after she was born, asking her (the baby) what she wanted to be called, I saw ny mum looking up at me and thought, "Well you're your Grannie's family, definitely!." I went through the baby names book until baby finally responded with sounded like a happy sigh - fortunately, because the whole family like her name.

I am very much like my dad but I have a lot of my mum in me I often here me say the same things she said. Yes callgirl I can dee the resemblance what a lovely photo

I look like my grandmother. In a picture with all cousins together (all girls about the same age) you can see the resemblance with old Kate in all of us. Throw in my mother and the one remaining aunt and it's even more obvious.

My mother had a very 'cruel tongue' and I hope I have not inherited that! However, I sometimes hear myself using my mother's logic (which when she used it seemed ridiculous!). I hope I have my father's patience - but I fear this has never happened, and never will.

Yes, when I look in the mirror, I see the older version of my mother looking back at me.
In temperament I am very conscious of being a mixture of both my parents and as far as attitudes go, I often feel closer to both my grandmothers and to the dear lady who helped in the house and contributed very largely to my sister and my upbringing.
I have tried all my adult life to eradicate my mother's bad habits of worrying instead of solving problems, of nagging my father and us and of being possessive in myself. However, critical I became of her, I did love her dearly, but I hope and trust I have never used either her words or tone of voice when speaking to my DH of DS.
My father had his faults too, and these I have tried to cure myself of too,

It's fascinating how the gene bag gets mixed up in each of us.
My paternal grandma and my brother both told me at different times how like my Dad I am in nature - to a tee - they said, and that pleases me. I have his blood group, his build, his hands and feet, his health pattern, his mouth, chin, fine hair and hairline - yet - I look like my mother with my fairer colouring. I see her when I catch my reflection in a shop window. I don't understand. I don't mind - just don't altogether get it.

My Mum has always been so controlling, and even tho I am 65 she still tries to tell me what to do and how I should live my life ! It has frustrated me and others so much over the years, so with my own 3, I gave advice once, then stepped back while they made their own choices. I was a Manager overseeing 130 staff, Mum has never gone out to work since marrying, yet she still evidently knows best !! Dad just did as he was told for a quiet life !!

I'm a happy mix of them both for which I am eternally grateful

My mother had peaches and cream skin and glossy brown hair.
I have not inherited either .
My dear Dad had thread veins and not much hair.
I have inherited both.

She taught us we could go out into the world and be anything we wanted to be. I hope I passed that on to my own children.

Yes I look like her. I only hope I come across as being as kind as she was. Always put everyone before herself.

I would love to think I'm like my mum. She was wonderful mum/ person/ grandmaand I still miss her every day.

I'm absolutely nothing like my mother and very like my father. I even look like him as does my son. My dad taught us about classical music, art, books and giving to charity. I only wish he was still around to pass on his wisdom to his great grand children whom he never met.

I see my mother's facial features and her iron grey hair with a white streak every time I look in a mirror. My father died when I was 2, but my aunts and uncles told me that I have his easy-going personality, and I have his height and slim build.

I am so like my Mother , more and more as I age . I hear myself saying things that she said , she was my best friend so I don`t mind at all . When I pull my hair back I see my father , which I am not so happy about as I was scared of him - looking back I think he had mental health problems from his experiences in the War . He had shell shock -the things my Grandfather told me about what happened to him are truly shocking . He was in the Dday landings .

It's surprising how we change. One of my daughters was like neither parent but now, in her 40s, looks very like her father. Another was exactly like her father as a child and now has a child exactly like herself.
I'm physically more like my maternal grandmother than like my mother. I try hard to not be like my mother, who was critical, sarcastic, irritable and short-tempered. My sister unfortunately does not try hard enough to not be the same. One of my daughters has the same traits, despite having hardly known her grandmother. Funny how we inherit our personalities along with our appearances.

My parents both thought that children should be seen and not heard and that parenting was about strict discipline. Making children feel loved and valued were not things they understood. I have tried very hard to treat my own children and grandchildren very differently. Hope I've succeeded.

I think I look like my dad but whenever I was out with mum on our own people would say I was like her, definitely becoming more like her as I age.

I look more like my father and I hope I have inherited some of both their characteristics. Some years ago we were at a science museum and they had a machine which changed the look of your face to make you look older, younger, or the opposite sex. I set it to show me what I would look like as man, and there was my father! Very weird.

I do see some of my mother's looks. But she was a woman who was terminally discontented with everything, and so wrapped up in herself that she didn't realise my father was dying from an industrial lung disease, until very near his final months. He suffered a back injury at work but, (god knows how he managed) worked at his heavy manual job until he was 67. She would complain 'all he does is sit around when the house needs decorating ' - it was pristine, but not up to her standard, because someone else always had better. I could never forgive her for that, and came to realise that actually I didn't like her.I hope that I never end up like her.