Are you a matching pair?

[robinw]

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Interesting comment - I don't think I look like my DH but we are both tall and large build, same sort of colour hair (now going grey - & he has very little left - ha ha) but his features are much 'sharper' than mine & he has a huge nose, whereas I quite like the shape of my nose.

Moving on .. isn't it amazing what likenesses people see when you have a baby, all my family comment that DS is like me, whilst DH's family comment vice versa (of course!), having compared early photos of baby & me, we did look alike initially, but now I don't think DS looks like either of us (fortunately for him!) - before baby was born my DH did comment 'I hope the baby has my brains & your looks' - not sure if that is a compliment or not!

What I seem to remember reading, somewhere, is that couples with more of a physical resemblance are more likely to stick together - not sure if that is true either, but when friends and relations think your kids look like either or both of you it's possibly a good sign!

Obviously if one of you has red hair and green eyes and one has black hair and blue eyes, it's easier to spot "likenesses". But look at the Duke and Duchess of York!

YES! I was most annoyed to read this many years ago because I thought it was an original theory I had come up with myself ( forgive me, I was young) . I called it The Genetic Phenotype theory. I am a great believer in it.I conveniently discount all couples who do not fit the pattern.
Part of my incontravertial"proof" is that I have never fancied a bloke with hair colour different to my own ( except Doctor Phil...)
Dh and I look like we could be in the same family. Pity it does not guarantee you will get on REALLY well most of the time.
Why did you ask, Robinw? DO you look like Dh?

Wow, this is the news I was wanting to hear in respect to new boufriend! I was asked what he looked like by a friend and the more I thought about it the more I thought that we are quite similar (not in hair colour though) but height, build and a little around the face (ie not a million miles away). I'm excited now (though probably shouldn't let myself as I'll probably be dumped now!!!) I think we 'look' like a good couple, if you know what I mean?!

At last - I've always thought this. I look like dh (tall, thin, dark, high cheekbones etc) except for his enormous nose, and it would be quite difficult to find a woman with a matching one, to be quite honest. Also - when couples I know announce they are getting married I always end up saying 'yes - that sounds right, they look really similar'. Alas, I too thought it was my own idea - silly me!

I don't look anything like my dh - he is very tall, thin and dark (think Mr Spock from Star Trek) whereas I am more comfortably built with pale skin and red hair. I heard another theory - that you go for someone like your father. I had 2'dads' - my real dad, and an uncle who lived with the family ever since my mother was a small child. When I review my relationships over the years, I can see that I fall for 2 very clear sorts of men - medium height, somewhat feckless and immature but totally charming men like my father, or tall, thin, practical and logical types like my uncle. Luckily for me I married one of the latter type, not the former!

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I don't think I'm like my dh, I'm MUCH MUCH nicer!!!

People also said we wouldn't last 6 months (one of dh's friends told me this just after we married, even his mother didn't think it would work), shows what they know - we're still going after nearly 12 years.

Dh and me are the total opposite of each other (looks and personality wise) but they do say opposites attract..............(don't know how that applies to us though!)

Oh why do I keep reading this as 'Have you got a matching pair?' Am I turning into Benny Hill?

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Okay Robinw. we've waited long enough. Do tell! Or can we guess? I think you have fallen madly in love with a man who is your physical double ( male equivalent anyhow) and you are wondering whether it is futile to resist...

I'm intrigued Robinw, tell me more................

RobinW, yes, do tell!

Dh and I could pass for distant cousins, but personality wise we're from different planets, though we revolve around the same sons!

LOL Tigermoth!

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Spill the beans, robinw, I could do with a bit of excitement and I am the soul of discretion!

Liz Hurley and Hugh Grant, Bianca and Mick Jagger, Angie and David Bowie - oops, they all split up didn't they?

Anyway, robinw, don't be so coy, spill.

C'mon Robinw, we are DYING to hear a bit of Mumsnet goss!

Another theory DH and I have is about fathers and daughters - all the dads we know that have one/two daughters and no sons are all mild-mannered, arty, music types and dads with just sons or a mix are more extrovert, sporty. Is this a coincidence?

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