What traits did you inherit from each parent?

Dark skin and cuntiness from my mother, and green eyes & big dick from my father.

Mom's red hair; Dad's side of the family's height (although he wasn't that tall himself).

I'm just like my father - too bold. I’m also just like my mother - she’s never satisfied.

Height, blue eyes, and sandy hair from my dad. Not much from my mom physically but I also live my life for everyone else like she does.

Dad was an over-the-top liberal hippie hunk on a motorcycle. Mom was a narrow-minded right-wing Repbunlican with good fashion sense. They were a cute 50s couple who started the same but grew in wildly separate ways over the years. Divorced. Inherited Dad's open mind and Mom's social ability but saw the hypocrisy in both mindsets.

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I got my Dad's homophobia and my mom's bipolar panic and nail biting. Thanks folks!

My dad's alcoholism and my mom's argumentative nature. So I'm a drunk asshole.

B- blood. Making me an alien.

Dad: Good = fast metabolism. Bad = inability to commit to a relationship.

Mom: Good = good cook. Bad = grudge holding.

Both: They both died of heart attacks as did their parents before them. So I guess I can thank both sides of the family for my inevitable fatal heart attack.

[quote] I have my mother's eyes and feet,

Do you keep them preserved in the freezer?

From my father my love of daddy dick, from my mother the knack of getting men to pay for it.

Hey, R9.

B neg here, too.

See you at Base 1.

[quote]Do you keep them preserved in the freezer?

No, but my Mom was in the hospital getting her hip replaced and I saw her feet and realized that they were the same as my feet, it was very strange to me.

Earrings from my mother

Caftans from my father!

My mother’s high cheekbones & cut jawline. My dad’s eyes.

Chronic kidney disease and ulcerative colitis.

I got bleached blond hair from my mother and an anal mouth from my father.

Dad: Good with numbers. Willingness to spend money at restaurants if I want to try something new.

Mom: Good eye for design and art. Good sense of humor (if I may say so, myself). Pretty honest and straightforward in the way I speak.

Dad: slightly good at art, ability to pinpoint on a task

Mom: sense of humor, practicality, brown eyes, temper

I take after my grandparents, especially my maternal grandmother.

Mom: Terrible eyesight, desperation to be liked, worrying too much, always thinking the worst possible outcome is what's going to happen

Dad: Interest in weird stuff (aliens, horror, etc.), love for animals, never wanting to leave the house or deal with the outside world

Parent?

Mom’s passive aggressive nature and Dad’s stubbornness. Oh, and heart disease from both.

Mom -- She thinks everything centers around her. "You seem in a bad mood today. It must be because of me," "Everyone here keeps staring at me," "they haven't responded to my text yet, I think they're ignoring me," etc. It's pretty annoying and exhausting but I admit that sometimes I'm the same way.

Dad -- Bad with money. Always wants to waste too much on wants instead of needs.

Dad- a talent for hiding his true self from those closest to him, thereby fooling everyone about his happiness. I fought against this in myself my entire life.

Mom-A lack of self-worth and a distrust of everyone around her. Ditto.

Ennui.

Hazel eyes and fair skin from Dad. Tall stature from Mom's side. She's only 5'3" but all of the men on her side are 6'+. Dad's side are Jewish munchkins.

From my mother, cold extremities. And a tiny sliver of her wide obsession about what people thought of her outward presentation.

Frim my father, strong, quick (but sound) opinions and the ability to express them like a freight train when the need arises. Keen observational skills and interest in human behavior and physical environment.

From both, an ability to find fault in anything. But from my father, an ability to be happy with what I have.

I have my father's eyes.

My father's pragmatism and my mum's desire to think of everyone. Which often keeps me busy solving everyone's problems but my own. (This is where my very own character comes in.)

My father's anger and my mother's sensuality.

Thankfully I inherited little to nothing from my father other than a few physical attributes. He had a very dark side. He could be a very loving father, but you always knew that when he demonstrated affection it wouldn't be long until he would counteract that display with a display of meanness. My mother always said that of the 3 children I was the only one who was just like her side of the family. My older brother and sister were mean as snakes. The only good attribute my father had was his absolute love and devotion to my mother. He worshipped the ground she walked on.

I inherited my mother's empathy & caring for those who are less fortunate. I inherited my mother's love for animals. I inherited my mother's distaste for whiners, complainers, cheaters, and liars.

I look just like my mom. I act a lot like my dad. It's served me well as a woman, mostly.

My moms meanness and my dads procrastination.

[Quote]I have my mother's eyes

[quote] The only good attribute my father had was his absolute love and devotion to my mother. He worshipped the ground she walked on.

R32, was he mean to your mother, though? I wouldn't consider that absolute love and devotion. Also, if he was mean to your mother's children, then that's not absolute love and devotion, either.

By the same token, a parent who procreates with a less than savory person drops a few notches in my book in the “good parent” category.

Psychologically? I think I got my dad's mental aimlessness and propensity to be a loner. I also got a bit of his short temper. From my mom, I got a streak of perfectionism, persistence, and stubbornness, among many other things.

Physically speaking, most of my traits appear to come from my mom's matrilineal Russian Jewish side—I inherited my mother's dark brown hair, eyes, and more chest/body hair than I'd ever have asked for (no, my mother doesn't have chest hair—but I know from seeing her shave her legs while I was growing up that she is one hairy broad). My brother, who despite also having the dark hair/eyes, took after our dad (who's mainly of English and Swedish ancestry) and has basically no body hair to speak of. We are both over six feet tall though, which I think comes from my maternal grandfather's side, as he was around 6'4" and his mother was six feet tall.

[quote] was he mean to your mother, though?

Good God no. He treated her like royalty. Besides, he knew what would happen to him if he ever mistreated her. First of all I would have beat him senseless once I was a teenager. Then my maternal grandparents would have gotten hold of him and he was very intimidated by both of them. But most of all he was terrified of the lady who raised my mother and who raised us. She was completely unafraid of him and took no guff from him. He was a typical defense lawyer type. Sneaky as the day is long.

My mother’s dick.

Malaise.

My mother's innate bitchiness and my dad's quiet charm. It's a constant struggle which trait gets dominance at any given moment.

That poncho look on the E! correspondent is a bad choice combined with the pulled back hair. She's also one color, needs red lipstick.