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Re: Why Do Couples Look Alike After Years Of Marriage? by kandiikane(m): 4:33pm On Aug 24, 2011
^^Lmaoooooooooooooooo, what? Una nor go kill me. grin
Re: Why Do Couples Look Alike After Years Of Marriage? by brainpulse: 4:35pm On Aug 24, 2011
Obinoscopy:

This is my theory:

After sexaul intercourse, the seminal fluid (which contains billions od spermatozoa) is deposited at the female cervix (is just after the womanliness). The Fluid then swims to fertilise the ovum at the fallopian tube later. My postlation is that some of the genes in the Fluid that couldn't fertilise the ovum (only one of the billion spermatozoa fertilise the ovum) get absorbed into the woman circulatory system and eventually lead to the gene of the man mixing up with the female gene. This ultimately makes the womwn look like the man with time.
okaay now its is the woman that looks like the man not the man looking like the woman. ehm there is a tribe in nigeria that most of all there females looks like males and some are even virgins ooo, that must have being wht happened thanks for the knowlegde pasted.
Re: Why Do Couples Look Alike After Years Of Marriage? by brainpulse: 4:39pm On Aug 24, 2011
comingly of blood majorly is a word used when it has to do with blood convenant, and also used in married when it is believed that they share common interest, belief and a deep degree of passion towards another. not blood during sex
Re: Why Do Couples Look Alike After Years Of Marriage? by brainpulse: 4:42pm On Aug 24, 2011
in emementary biology only one survives the revolution to invade the ovum, and the others die not absorbd.
Re: Why Do Couples Look Alike After Years Of Marriage? by Rhea(f): 4:44pm On Aug 24, 2011
All these theories, postulates and hypothesis being thrown around has little scientific backing.

Couples will begin to "look alike" to the viewer/looker who looks at them for too long. If you stare at a painting for too long, the eyes int he painting will start to move around and follow you around the room. In the same vane, if you see two people together all the time, before long, the image of one person will trigger the image of the other in your mind. They can easily be interpreted by you as one and the same or very closely related. It is all in the mind of the person viewing the couple. If however, you see a couple married for over 25 years for the first time, there is absolutely nothing about the two that will make them look the same to you. Children do not feel this way about their parents because they know absolutely nothing about how their parents looked like when they first met. So, they have absolutely no basis for comparison lest to figure out if papa is becoming more like mama or vice versa.

The genetic makeup of the man and the woman is not altered or affected by either of them. There is absolutely no exchange of genetic material even if one person donates blood to the other. However, their offspring is definitely going to assume some semblance of both parents in equal or disparate measures. That is all genetics.

Just because a child looks a bit like the father and a bit like the mother does not mean that the man will start to look a bit like the woman. That essentially happens in the mind of the person doing the looking.

The sperm or ovum released by the man/woman does not alter the genetic make up of the man/woman in any form or shape whatsoever. Every genetic information a man/woman possesses has already been completely packaged and assigned to him/her during fertilisation in the mother's womb.
Re: Why Do Couples Look Alike After Years Of Marriage? by ajadudu: 4:45pm On Aug 24, 2011
Simple reason:
Everyone has facial expressions and mannerism that makes them unique. With time if you live with someone for a long time you start to mimic those expressions subconsciously. If the woman pouts her lips when surprised, the man will eventually start to mimic that expression as well when surprised. If the man raises an eyebrow when he hears something silly, the woman starts to mimic the same gesture eventually. All these facial expressions tend to mold the look and lines on our faces.

Blood mixing, intercourse? That's just BS.
Re: Why Do Couples Look Alike After Years Of Marriage? by Obinoscopy(m): 4:47pm On Aug 24, 2011
brainpulse:

in emementary biology only one survives the revolution to invade the ovum, and the others die not absorbd.

brainpulse,

Yes the other spermatozoa dies off but their genetic composition (DNA strands) still remains. Its the gene that gets absorbed and not the spem wink
Re: Why Do Couples Look Alike After Years Of Marriage? by Rhea(f): 4:48pm On Aug 24, 2011
ajadudu:

Simple reason:
Everyone has facial expressions and mannerism that makes them unique. With time if you live with someone for a long time you start to mimic those expressions subconsciously. If the woman pouts her lips when surprised, the man will eventually start to mimic that expression as well when surprised. If the man raises an eyebrow when he hears something silly, the woman starts to mimic the same gesture eventually. All these facial expressions tend to mold the look and lines on our faces.

Blood mixing, intercourse? That's just BS.

well said cool
Re: Why Do Couples Look Alike After Years Of Marriage? by brainpulse: 4:54pm On Aug 24, 2011
@ RHEA

ANALYSIS YOU JUST GAVE IS THE STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP OF HUMAN EYE TO IMAGE MORPHOLOGY.


THANKS FOR THAT EXAMPLE
Re: Why Do Couples Look Alike After Years Of Marriage? by brainpulse: 4:57pm On Aug 24, 2011
@rhea i respect your interllect on this issue. i raise my cap
Re: Why Do Couples Look Alike After Years Of Marriage? by kandiikane(m): 5:12pm On Aug 24, 2011
I think majority of nairalanders have to go back to primary school especially the men. . cool
Re: Why Do Couples Look Alike After Years Of Marriage? by Obinoscopy(m): 5:22pm On Aug 24, 2011
I concur, you inclusive wink
Re: Why Do Couples Look Alike After Years Of Marriage? by princeonx: 5:38pm On Aug 24, 2011
They say pictures don't lie! post pictures of your parents or couple you know or believe to look alike as a result of marriage and let compare!
Re: Why Do Couples Look Alike After Years Of Marriage? by WebSurfer(m): 5:39pm On Aug 24, 2011
lolzzzzzz
Re: Why Do Couples Look Alike After Years Of Marriage? by Sike(m): 6:42pm On Aug 24, 2011
Thatz why a Popular Yoruba adage says: "ti ewe ba pe lara ose, o ma n di ose ni"
Re: Why Do Couples Look Alike After Years Of Marriage? by BigMeat2: 7:18pm On Aug 24, 2011
@ Sike #110 - true statement.
Re: Why Do Couples Look Alike After Years Of Marriage? by Nobody: 7:44pm On Aug 24, 2011
And the 2 shall become 1
Re: Why Do Couples Look Alike After Years Of Marriage? by UDYKRIS: 8:04pm On Aug 24, 2011
wht God has join let no man put assunder!!!!!, they will surely resemble na 4 better 4 worse!! grin
Re: Why Do Couples Look Alike After Years Of Marriage? by Macavelius(m): 8:40pm On Aug 24, 2011
Confirms what is written in the bible, now been confirmed by scientists, 'and the two shall become one', God is a wonderful creator.
Re: Why Do Couples Look Alike After Years Of Marriage? by Godstile: 2:29am On Aug 25, 2011
yea, it is true. Even lovers are becoming the same
Re: Why Do Couples Look Alike After Years Of Marriage? by kandiikane(m): 4:25am On Aug 25, 2011
Macavelius:

Confirms what is written in the bible, now been confirmed by scientists, 'and the two shall become one', God is a wonderful creator.
Which scientist? That after years of marriage, an oval face turns to a square?
Re: Why Do Couples Look Alike After Years Of Marriage? by itiswell1(m): 8:38am On Aug 25, 2011
A lot of mingling. Water mixing with water and blood mixing with blood.
Re: Why Do Couples Look Alike After Years Of Marriage? by amaechijay: 1:12pm On Aug 25, 2011
My parents have been married for likr 4 decades now but still looking different.

I see it happen though, in other homes
Re: Why Do Couples Look Alike After Years Of Marriage? by otunba9ja: 2:15pm On Aug 25, 2011
I AGREE THAT COUPLES LOOK ALIKE AFTER YEARS OF MARRIAGE
THOUGH THIS HAPPENS TO ONLY A SIZABLE PERCENT OF COUPLES.
AND I THINK THE FOLLOWING DO NOT BELONG TO THAT CLASS.

OSHIOMOLE AND LATE SPOUSE
TINUBU AND SENATOR OLUREMI
OBJ AND LATE SPOUSE
SEGUN ARINZE AND WIFEY
BASKET MOUTH AND ?
TUNDE OBE AND WIFEY
LATE INDIAMI OF UGANDA & WIFEY (s)

ABI WHAT DO YOU THINK,
Re: Why Do Couples Look Alike After Years Of Marriage? by kandiikane(m): 3:28pm On Aug 25, 2011
smh. .
Re: Why Do Couples Look Alike After Years Of Marriage? by Natasha2(f): 9:10pm On Aug 25, 2011
i don't know cheesy
Re: Why Do Couples Look Alike After Years Of Marriage? by EfeEkarume(m): 9:54pm On Aug 25, 2011
Poster!!! You and this your biological question sef! I need to read my Modern Biology textbook again to answer that because seriously, I don't really know.
Re: Why Do Couples Look Alike After Years Of Marriage? by Dblank(f): 11:15pm On Aug 25, 2011
Am just hearing this for the first time.Shey na the same mama and paale born them two?I simply do not believe it jare grin
Re: Why Do Couples Look Alike After Years Of Marriage? by fyndoc: 11:16pm On Sep 04, 2012
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Re: Why Do Couples Look Alike After Years Of Marriage? by Kobojunkie: 11:22pm On Sep 04, 2012
Syenite: I also think co-mingling of blood during intercourse;
Sharing similar thoughts and ideology;
Putting-on similar cloths (and co);
Eating same kind of food;
Living under same socio-economic condition.

Co-mingling of blood ke? Where?? Ewwwww!
Re: Why Do Couples Look Alike After Years Of Marriage? by toygod2: 9:49pm On Jan 17, 2013
I DONT RILY BLIEV DIS

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