Why Men Marry Women Exactly Like Their Mothers

You've heard the expression, "Men always marry their Mothers." It is more true than you realize.

How We Learn:

When we are infants, we generally spend most of our time with our Mothers, for obvious reasons. We start life as being 'physically suggestible' which in simple terms means that everything we learn we do so by; touching it, tasting it, hugging it, or if it's the cat, being scratched by it. As we grow we model our behavior, and our beliefs for the most part, on that of our primary maternal figure. As we begin to figure life out in our own minds and go off to school for the first time, our focus shifts somewhat and we look to our teacher as yet another role model. This new role model is almost co-parenting in this regard, since we accept his or her word that what we are being taught is so. Mother and this teacher are now the most important learning influences in our lives.

Progressing towards the ages of between 10 and 15 and becoming more independent, another shift in focus takes place and we are becoming more drawn to a paternal figure. More independence and less time spent at Mother's hem is allowing us to explore what else is happening in the family unit and the world around us. It is here we now see Mother from a different perspective. We still love her and trust what she teaches us, but Father has become the newer, more influential authority. These different stages of learning and the figures we look to now as we change and grow will become the more dominant influence to us as we grow into adulthood.

There are of course exceptions to this, since some parents are single for any number of reasons. In this case, you may have another role model such as an uncle or a cousin or maybe a Grandparent who is your unconscious substitution for the missing parent.

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