Isn't the saying that every woman's tragedy is that she turns into her mother? 😁
Looks-wise, I have my father's eyes but my mother's nose, and definitely have the same health pattern as my father had (sleep disorders, etc). My older sister has our mother's eyes and our father's nose, and the same health patterns as our mother had (goes to bed, goes to sleep, wakes up 8 or so hrs later - astonishing, no idea how that is done! 😴 ).
My son sounds just like my brother. He and 1 daughter have the same looks as my OH's family. The other daughter takes after my side. I'm one of 4 and I have 1 sister like me. 1 sister definately takes after my dad but not in temperament thank goodness.
I find it amazing that where twins are separated at birth and bought up by different families, when reunited, they walk in wearing very similar clothing colours and styles. This has happened several times on one of the lost relatives found programmes.
in photographs, I always think I look like my Dad and most people usually say I do, but I often see my mother in the mirror. I think I probably have her mannerisms and facial expressions - mimicry I guess. My older brother looks very like Mum's father and his older daughter looks very like him. So we're all switched about.
I didn't know any of my grandparents, but apparently my personality is most like my Mum's mother
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
...that made me think about my own family and what traits I thought they had - and it leapt off the page at me as to how I perceive my family in that the the first born follows the mother in traits and the second born the father. It made me wonder whether that was always the case - and again if there then was a benefit for that tendency. But it seems it's not a tendency at all and is just a genetic figment of my imagination!
My mum was docile (well not quite - as a kid you didn't want to let her 'count to three'...) and my dad volatile. They split when I was 16 - I was (as were my siblings) petrified of him. He remarried and ended up living in Spain. I went to see him back in the 90s when he was as old then as I am now and I wondered what I had even been scared of - he was a little old man. Like going back to infant school and sitting on the tiny chairs.
My sister (older by 3 years) and I looked so much alike as teenagers that we now can't remember which of us appears in some of the old photos. But she inherited our dad's mathematical ability, whereas I was better at languages. We still look very similar, and are both beginning to resemble our mother...
Oddly, my sister's handwriting and my daughter's are almost identical.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
a daughter whom her mother described as looking like her Dad in a dress
That's me. There are much stronger, dominating genetics from my dad's side. My dad had seven siblings and I have dozens of cousins (their kids). We are all on the exact same pattern, each slightly photoshopped. It must have been a bit galling for the siblings' partners as none of the kids looked like them. All the cousins have noticably shared personality traits and dispositions, even though some of us grew up on various sides of the world and met fairly recently. Epigenetics can have a strong influence on personality as well as physical appearance.
"Isn't the saying that every woman's tragedy is that she turns into her mother?"
It is my life's single goal that this will not be the case. If it's destined to happen, shoot me now.
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Looks-wise, I have my father's eyes but my mother's nose, and definitely have the same health pattern as my father had (sleep disorders, etc). My older sister has our mother's eyes and our father's nose, and the same health patterns as our mother had (goes to bed, goes to sleep, wakes up 8 or so hrs later - astonishing, no idea how that is done! 😴 ).
I'm one of 4 and I have 1 sister like me. 1 sister definately takes after my dad but not in temperament thank goodness.
I didn't know any of my grandparents, but apparently my personality is most like my Mum's mother
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Oddly, my sister's handwriting and my daughter's are almost identical.