My Contribution to the Wave of Relationship Threads

[Umbran]

So, are a lot of similarities good or bad?

Yes

In relationships, the devil is not in the generalities, but in the details. The broad strokes of origins and likes and dislikes are not as important as the fiddly-bits of personality that determine whether or not you like each other, and find each other attractive.

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

My husband and I began our relationship over MSN Messenger. We spent the first year of our whirlwind romance making long road trips back and forth on the weekends in order to be together...

Now, we appreciate our time together more than any couple I have ever seen... it is hard... but, when it comes time for you to actually be together, it seems all the sweeter.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Well, today was the last day she worked. She's leaving for school tomorrow. Then she'll be on the other side of Pennsylvania from me... sigh. I got her a card though, wishing her good luck at school, and giving her my number in case she wanted to call me sometime. Now, my extremely loser-ish self has to get up the gumption and finally get my license. No, I don't have it yet, but there's reasons.

I had no self-confidence for the longest time. And with no self-confidence came no real motivation to do much of anything, unfortunately. But now I have confidence back, so...

 

[Terwox]

The old saying goes opposites attract. Do they? Because this girl is like me in many, many ways. She's a hippie, an Anglophile, an (ex- in her case) gamer, and (I did not know this!) Southern. That's like... a score of like 10 on a 1-10 scale for me, personally.

So, are a lot of similarities good or bad?

don't forget the old saying "birds of a feather flock together."
psychology research also points to the fact that humans of a feather tend to have more luck in the whole relationship department.
that is, people have more friends/sig. others that are similar, as opposed to different, generally speaking.

from personal experience, though, some people tend to notice a few things about someone else, and declare that they are the same person and that they're perfect for one another... when they don't really know the other person.

I dunno, the first thing my (musician) girlfriend of 1.3 years or so said to me when I asked her out was "but... you don't even like classical music!" Eh, that's just thrown in because I thought it was funny.