I have become my mother (father)

[AlethiaSi]

I feel like that every day.... I notice in the way that I speak or say certain things.... the way i dress or my attitude about things... i always swore i wouldn't become like her.... and sometimes when i realize that I have, it scares me... but i guess it isn't half bad

Everyone always confuses me with her on the phone, our voices are exactly the same and i'm starting to look like her too lol

[Marie]

Originally Posted by AlethiaSi

I feel like that every day.... I notice in the way that I speak or say certain things.... the way i dress or my attitude about things... i always swore i wouldn't become like her.... and sometimes when i realize that I have, it scares me... but i guess it isn't half bad

Everyone always confuses me with her on the phone, our voices are exactly the same and i'm starting to look like her too lol

Good God...Its the same situation w/my mom and I. My bf tells me that I had better never fully transform into her. I hate to tell him, but it may be inevitable.

[ΑΓΔSquirrel10]

Everyone says that my mom and I both look and sound just alike. It didn't hit me that I really am becoming my mom until a few weeks ago at dinner. My mom has always eaten her whole meal without drinking anything (just a few sips throughout the meal). After she finishes eating, she then drinks her beverage. I noticed recently that I do that, and I used to make fun of her for doing that all the time.

[Private I]

ah, but has anyone actually had their dad mistake them for their wife even though his wife (my mother) was sitting exactly next to him?

My and I are both around five foot one, are pear shaped, and have long blond hair. That's something I can look forward to-nearly halfway through my fifties without any gray sticking out yet. Oh, and all of those early wrinkle lines.

I find myself talking to my line sisters like my mother talks to me (make sure you go to grad school NOW because it is much harder if you take a break and go back). I realize how it sounds and I apologize for being so patronizing. It snuck up on me!

[Pike_Cardinal]

I realized I am becoming my parents when my roommate told him to wake him up at a certain time and I didnt becuase he was sleeping so good. We joke all the time about how when we tell our parents to wake us up they dont and then we get pissed because there was a reason we told them to

[mulattogyrl]

I'm shaped just like my mom - short and wide.
I walk like my mom - piegeon-toed.
I'm loud like my mom.
I'm very silly like my mom.
I sing and dance around the house like my mom.

So, yeah, I've turned into her pretty much.

[AlphaFrog]

I was delighted that my mom and I went to the same church for about 9 months before people actually realized that we were related. Their reaction was usually something like: "You're her daughter?? But you're nothing alike. You're so laid back and she's so....well... ".

[aephi alum]

Originally Posted by Private I

ah, but has anyone actually had their dad mistake them for their wife even though his wife (my mother) was sitting exactly next to him?

My father has never mistaken me for my mother - I have her eyes but his hair, so she and I look "different enough". But my mother-in-law mixes up her husband with mine (their only child) all the time. She frequently says, "Jim, Tom, whatever your name is!" (names changed to protect the innocent)

[mystikchick]

i've had people who knew my mom when she was younger swear i look like her.

i know that i behave a lot like my mom, we think the same way about a lot of things. but what scares me most is how academically, i've turned into both of my parents but WITHOUT them pressuring me in any way, shape or form. it's the most bizzare thing ever and i have no real explanation for it. suffice to say though, that both of my majors are exactly what my parents did (social studies for one parent, french for the other) :P

but i'm ok with it, my mom is an awesomely cool person most of the time. my kids will be lucky if i end up half as relaxed as my parents (really, so chilled out they barely even gave me cause to rebel. pierced my bellybutton? not thrilled but came around. came home drunk in hs? no reaction. hungover off my @$$ on new years day? handed me a zantac).