ELI5. Is it true that we are attracted to people who resemble our parents, or is attraction linked to the kind of parental care we should receive?

Question

ELI5. Is it true that we are attracted to people who resemble our parents, or is attraction linked to the kind of parental care we should receive?

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Answer 1

my wife has begun to resemble my mother as she approaches her late 30s… it’s frightening. when the wife was in her 20s, she did not look like my mother in her 20s.