My ex looked a lot like her mom. Which was awesome when I was younger, because my ex didn't smoke, and it was pretty awesome to think she would be hot forever.
Well turns out that is true, but being hot is a terrible thing to base the quality of a relationship on.
almost did this myself. dad sat me down and said, "Son, she's not right for you. go find yourself a nice cripple girl. she'll never walk all over you."
Man, your dad gave better advice than everyone I knew.
Everyone was like "no, peoplebeproblems, if you marry her, you marry all the crazy, what does your gut say?"and I was all like "I have IBS! It's unreliable!"
My dad gave me the advice that your wife will likely look like her mother. My ex now, at 30 years looked exactly like her mom and I’m glad for reason 1001 to be divorced from her. No1 was: she’s a nasty, self centered twat who did nothing for us unless it benefited herself.
genetics are so crazy to me because this is normal but like it's ALSO possible for only recessed genes coming out and the child looks nothing like the parent which is also cool AF
bit sad I didn't get my dad's 'grey hair at 14' genetics. I woulda made sooo many "respect your elders!!" jokes 🥲
I was worried we started our own oldschoolcool, the “wank to my ancestors” community, for a second, but they do look nearly identical. Lot of dominant genes in her mom.
My main memory of oldschoolcool was that one time the F1 community posted a picture of Romain Grosjean from the late '00s and convinced the subreddit that it was Jean-Pierre Jabouille; a different F1 driver from the '70s. That was fun.
I love this, as a 50 year old I immediately recognize the Renault logo as post 80's (1992 from a quick search), and ING bank was formed in 1991, before that is was Postbank.
I look pretry much just like my dad when he was around 20. Looking at younger us not similar at all. But around 18 to 20 we look pretty much identical except the hair.
Some women essentially clone themselves or the dad.
I have a cousin, she had 5 kids, all with different dads, yet the 3 girls look exactly like the mom and the boys exactly like the dads.
And that cousin looks like her mom who looks like my grandma. But only that specific daughter of my grandma has the cloning abilities (my grandma had I think 11 kids).
Yeah, genetics is more complicated than that. Recessive genes/traits means that while half of genetic material (discounting that X an Y chromosomes are different sizes) comes from each parent, their kid's appearance is not just having all traits be midway between their parents' appearances. And there's more complications than recessive genes like epiginetics, environmental factors, multi-gene traits, etc.