How to explain attraction…

Some people look like their dogs.

I looked nothing like my mother in law or my sister in law who looked very similar. I am fair with a round face and they are dark with oval faces.
My husband left me for a woman who looked very similar to them. I did wonder that when he met her, he felt he had known her all his life. 😊
They do say that husbands and wives who look like each other are more likely to stay married.

I always fancied men with mousey hair and designer stubble. My friend said to me that all the boys I liked looked the same.

I definitely had a 'type' in mind when I started looking online, the minute I saw those gorgeous brown eyes staring out of the screen I just knew!
Travelled halfway across the country and it was love at first sight. He's cuddled up besides me now snoring gently after a lovely walkies and a good sniff 'round the park

Granddadpete, I was a red head when younger and was never attracted to red headed men, was too afraid my children could be ridiculed the way I was as only one of two children in the estate we lived on with red hair. I even used to tell my best friend when we were about 10 or 11, if I ever had a child with red hair, I’d flush it down the toilet oh dear

Cateq

Granddadpete, I was a red head when younger and was never attracted to red headed men, was too afraid my children could be ridiculed the way I was as only one of two children in the estate we lived on with red hair. I even used to tell my best friend when we were about 10 or 11, if I ever had a child with red hair, I’d flush it down the toilet oh dear

Oh that’s a shame

I am the opposite of my late MiL in every way.

How do you account for women like me whose father left when I was a few months old? Had a lovely uncle but he died young
So no father figure and no real security

Both my husbands were, are, totally different to my father, and I loved him unconditionally.

My dil is the opposite of me. My sil very much like my d father in looks.

They do say that men tend to marry women who resemble their mothers. I am not the slightest bit like my mother-in -law. However, both my sons have married girls who look alike, but they don't look like me.

A friend once said of me and my husband, 'You two look like brother and sister.'

Aldom

A friend once said of me and my husband, 'You two look like brother and sister.'

A woman we barely knew said this to my husband and I at a dance years ago, I looked at her in bewilderment!

AGAA4

My husband was poles apart from my dad in looks and character. The same applied to my mother in law and me.

Same here, and same with DP.
I won’t say there’s nothing in it tho ( OP ) as I’ve known people who have gone for same physical types as close family.Could be something hardwired in us that stays safe with the known villager rather than the tribe over the hill.

keepcalmandcavachon

I definitely had a 'type' in mind when I started looking online, the minute I saw those gorgeous brown eyes staring out of the screen I just knew!
Travelled halfway across the country and it was love at first sight. He's cuddled up besides me now snoring gently after a lovely walkies and a good sniff 'round the park

Doh! You got me there, only twigged at the sniff round the park bit.🤣

The only likeness between my late father and my DH is their DIY abilities. Everything else is totally different, especially their personalities.

My lovely SiL is nothing like either DD’s dad, nor her step dad.

Heaven forbid that I’m anything like my DiL! She’s led my son a right merry dance 😕