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Why am I attracted to someone who looks like me?

"What we're really attracted to is familiarity, so seeing something familiar in someone else often forms some kind of attraction," Read said. "We also know that anthropologically, we used to feel safe with people who looked like our own tribe.

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We often hear that opposites attract, but when it comes to the laws of attraction, it seems that we could be seeking out similarities instead. People naturally - and subconsciously - gravitate toward people who are familiar, and there's even an anthropological reason for it. "We also know that anthropologically, we used to feel safe with people who looked like our own tribe. "We knew that they were part of our own gang, so we were attracted to people that resembled the tribe." "Now, that's obviously changed. That net is so much wider than it used to be. "But there's something in our DNA that had us attracted to people who look like us."

Differences aren't all bad

With people getting married later in life, and travelling farther for education and work, there's more opportunity for individuals to pair up with different backgrounds. Online dating is also starting to change the game - people are no longer limited to finding a partner within their social circle, or immediate environment. And while a sense of familiarity is comforting, it'll only take your relationship so far. "It's the way we engage with each other that's the glue that will hold a relationship together.

"The relationship is not doomed if your partner looks different to you."

Reminding us of our parents

Another study also found that people were subliminally attracted to features of their opposite-sex parent. "That's our earliest template of what a relationship looks like, so it's not unusual that we seek to replicate that in some way." A further study looked at the phenomenon of married couples who grew to look more like each other over time, with decades of shared emotions resulting in a closer resemblance, with similar wrinkles and expressions.

"We influence each other through the time we spend together."

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