Theres a lot of people who hold a belief that ultimately people look for their parents in who they choose as partners. Like not just Freudian weirdos, its bizarrely pervasive amongst seemingly regular people as well.
The joke is she is realizing her boyfriend is one of those people, but is not particularly upset, just acknowledging of the phenomena.
In what world is this supposed to be a bad thing? Birds do the same thing. We imprint an image of what people are supposed to look like from an early age that informs what we are attracted to. This isn't "wanting to sleep with your mother".
we are often specifically attracted to people very different from what we know as genetic diversity stregnthens resistance to various illness and protects heavily against the numerous health issue of multi generational incest or single community inbreeding.
That’s not necessarily the case with personality traits and the like though. People who think fondly of their parents naturally associate those personality traits with those of a good partner. Nothing creepy about it, it’s just learning. We aren’t born into the world with knowledge of what personality traits we want in a partner
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u/cachesummer4 17h ago
Theres a lot of people who hold a belief that ultimately people look for their parents in who they choose as partners. Like not just Freudian weirdos, its bizarrely pervasive amongst seemingly regular people as well.
The joke is she is realizing her boyfriend is one of those people, but is not particularly upset, just acknowledging of the phenomena.