Your Mother’s Romantic History Affects Your Promising Dating Life

A new study suggests that people whose mothers had several romantic partners tend to follow the same path.

 

Some of us have their mother's eyes or even their face looks like their mother's. On the other hand there is people who grow up to have their mother's romantic past.

People whose mothers have been married a couple times or more, or even had lived with multiple partners are more likely to repeat that same events again, according to a new study published Tuesday in the journal PLoSone. The more people are living inside their mother's “multiple life partners”, the more romantic partners they tend to have.

The authors of this study analyzed data from different of thousands of American citizens that have been followed for about 24 years. Data on the parent side warn't available.

These authors wrote that, rather than the economics or socialization, the most likely explanation was in their DNA. Thus, some people have some personal traits that makes them better or worse at sustaining relationships. They might be depressed, have trust issues, or not stable on the emotional side. They then pass those traits on to their children, the thing that gonna make these children to have almost the same “short-lived” relationships.

Old research has already suggested that personality traits we take from out parents can have an effect on our romantic and unromantic relationships. People who are more depressed, for example, have been thought to have less stable relationships, while those who are more extroverted and agreeable seems to be searching for their soul mates.

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“It could be that mothers who have more partners don’t have great relationship skills, or don’t deal with conflict well, or have mental-health problems, each of which can undermine relationships and lead to instability,” Claire Kamp Dush, the head author of the study, said in a statement. “Whatever the same ways or mechanisms, they may pass these characteristics on to their children, making their children’s relationships less stable.”

No doubt, some mothers with multiple romantic partners are perfectly happy. They simply like having different partners around them and have no need or desire to marry. Still, old studies have shown that children of a divorce are more likely to get divorced themselves.

This new study -and much more others like it- suggests we copy other parts of our parents' romantic lives, beyond divorce.

“It’s not just divorce now,” Kamp Dush said. “Many children are seeing their parents divorce, start new cohabiting relationships, and having those end as well.”

On the bright side, if you find that your relationships ending, having your mother's eyes or her facial might help you out when you're trying to find a new one.

And at the end, I just wanna say: don't blame it all on your Mother’s Romantic History.

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Your Mother’s Romantic History Affects Your Promising Dating Life.

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