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Do you resemble your DP/DH s previous wife/partner?

42 replies

bebesequin · 27/10/2009 19:52

Probaly the wrong place to post this- but a friend met DHs ex today and commented how similar we are in looks - DH obviously has a'type' and I just wondered if anyone else had come accross this?
Is it a male thing as none of my old flames are remotely alike?
Just curious

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IdrisTheDragon · 27/10/2009 19:54

I don't resemble DH's ex at all. We have different body shapes, different colour and type of hair and are generally very different

GooberIsLockedInTheBootOfMyCar · 27/10/2009 19:55

In Her dreams.

MaggieBruja · 27/10/2009 19:57

I wonder if boris becker's girlfriends and wives will come on to this thread!?

CMOTdibbler · 27/10/2009 19:58

No, all DHs exs that I ever saw (we were at uni together, so there were a lot of gfs) were short and petite, usually dark. He especially liked gymnasts and dancers.

I am tall, solidly built and have no coordination. But we've been married 12 years now

browntrout · 27/10/2009 20:14

I dont look like anyone my ex previously went out with but worryingly I am physically very similar to his sister - and I wonder why it didnt work out....

KristinaM · 27/10/2009 20:16

I could not be more different from my DH's ex. In ethnicity, age, height , colouring, personality, interests, job

However, Dh is one of three brothers, all a year apart in age. all of the wives are exactly the same!! same age, colouring, family background, and very similar personalities. at our wedding many people thought we were sisters and not SIL

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dalek · 27/10/2009 20:22

Don't look anything like Dh's former girlfriends but saw his his most significant ex with my handbag - that handbag is now in the charity bag!

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bebesequin · 27/10/2009 20:25

Teh heh heh

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ninah · 27/10/2009 20:28

Usually, I prefer to wonder if the next one will look like me

Ronaldinhio · 27/10/2009 20:30

no but in truth I may have looked like his mother when she was younger....

also we are worryingly similar in personality

ADifferentMe · 27/10/2009 20:42

LOL LOL LOL

DH's first wife wears head-to-toe lime green Per Una and has no teeth. Sorry, that was really bitchy but I feel soooooooooo much better now!

tattycoram · 27/10/2009 20:44

Not particularly, but definitely a bit like his mum when younger and both his brothers have tall dark haired partners too.

ninah · 27/10/2009 20:44

I was thinking ghostbusters chic

EccentricaGallumbats · 27/10/2009 20:48

hope not. DH's previous partner was a bloke with a beard. I keep my facial hair plucked.

mrsruffallo · 27/10/2009 20:49

Not at all. She was an Amazonian blonde with a a tan and perfect teeth.
I am short and skinny with dark hair and rosy cheeks!

MadameDuBain · 27/10/2009 20:50

I don't look like any of his exes, and they don't look like each other so there doesn't seem to be a physical type. But as far as I can tell they are all complete fruitcakes. I do worry about what that says about me...

JustAnotherManicMummy · 27/10/2009 20:51

No. Although my ex's new girlfriend looks a bit like me (scary).

DH looks like my dad of course.

EsmeWeatherwax · 27/10/2009 20:54

No, she's short, blonde and nasally challenged, I'm very, very tall, dark and ave a normally shaped nose. [bitch]

However, we do have one similarity as do bot is brother's wives. We are all generously norked

ZZZenAgain · 27/10/2009 20:55

I hope not

I resemble his mother though

BoneYard · 27/10/2009 20:57

No but BIL's wife looks and acts exactly like my MIL . I am nothing like either of them...

However i do see my dad in DH - not physically (DH a much bigger bloke) but personality wise.

ZZZenAgain · 27/10/2009 20:59

just last week someone came round and picked up a photo of dh's mother as she was young and said, "oh this is your mother? She looks exactly the same as you!"

And I'm thinking . I said, "no that's dh's mother" and she was staring at me open-mouthed going , "really, really? Looks just like you."

I don't see it myself

bebesequin · 27/10/2009 21:06

I have been mistaken for DHs ex in the past and once one of her children shouted 'look that lady looks like mummy' Can't really see it myself

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