Do opposites really attract?

I think that in relationships opposites definitely DON'T get along. I'm thinking of the basic relationship I had with my grandmother and mother who raised me. Now those two had just about identical personalities and got along great. I sometimes swear I was switched at birth as my personality was so opposite, yet my mom would tell me that my personality was like my father's even though I never got to know him..my folks were divorced when I was very young. So as you can imagine, life was all but tame in our dwelling...difficult, hard, strange?? Gee, trying to think of other words to describe it. I never married, but am still hoping...LOL...and definitely would like to find someone similar to me!!

Yes... there is no doubt that opposites attract. But it is not like that with everyone. People who are attracted by the opposite usually do so because they feel unsecure... are not happy with who they are and wish they were different. If your partenaire is opposite... it does not mean that it will be opposite in everything. The most common feature amongst opposite people is that one is introvert and the other extrovert. Those relationships don't usually work. You can stick around for many years... have a fight every month and make up. But after a while it's get tiring and you realise that it will never change as the compromises that you ask of each other are too big. Eventually... you will break up.

Well there are no rules here, but my personal opinion is that usually people are attracted to the people that are very different from them, because each and every one of us has so,e "missing parts" or at least most of us think so, and the other half usually completes those parts and makes a whole. For example people that have more closed personalities usually attract to people with open personalities and so on. But the big question is are those relationships usually long term relationships or long term relationships? How long can you get along with people that are so different from you? I believe that if those people do not have the same basis that you have then the relationship won't last for a long time. what do you think?

It's a great song by Paula Abdul that's for sure! While I wouldn't want to spend my time with someone so vastly different from me, I also wouldn't want to spend my time with someone who was so much like me that it was like hanging out with myself. I do think opposites attract... but I don't think it's 100% opposites. It's just enough to keep you on your toes and keep you from being bored.

it is all about comfort and sweetness. sometimes very different personalities can be cool and smile at each other and sy "yes honey" and laugh , while sometimes two very similar personalaties can just look at each other with that look "i know", . i believe one should make the other know that one is there to grasp the other's hand when ever the other wants. lots of hugs, teasing , smiles, naughtyness and making the person feel like one's own is very good. i feel that way. yes and good music and dances are good too. smiles all the way, apple. ( to the big heart)

well magnets with oppisite poles attract to one and other so do people and there is a simple reason for this, people who do different things have things to talk about at the end of the day so that the relationship stays fresh.

The aljebric theory is plus plus = plus, minus minus = plus plus minus = minus. So attraction of opposite is somewhere work and somewhere do not work. When you will enter into conjugal life then you will have to sacrifice many plus items of your life to minus and you will have to accept many minus as plus. Before entering into conjugal life it cannot be guessed or think. Goals: both of you will fix a goal for future of your family. When plus mius become more difference then caos start and its result is to divorce. I hope you will be different as you are wise enought as I guess from your discussion. So do not worry wait and see until you arrange your a nice better half.

I stayed with a girl that was the opposite of me, but I think it's better to stay with someone similar to me.

I believe both are true and in my case a little of both . My husband and I have different interests but we have some that are the same . If you had somone in life who was just like you then things could become quite boring as one would always know what to expect yet you want someone who can understand you at the same time . When interests are different this can give a couple the chance to experience something different in life that they may not have occured to them to try before yet you don't want someone who is completely different from you that they never understand where you are coming from , so I believe that we find a little of both in the people we become attracted to , their differnces and what we have in common with them .

I think that opposites do attract. In my case, my ex and I were opposites, and then we grew even further apart. Eventually we couldn't see eye to eye on anything anymore and it was time to go our separate ways.

Hi cammeel1! I am already married. My husband and I are not entirely opposite nor we very much have the same likes or dislikes. I guess, we have things that we both like such as the arts, he loves to create arts and I love to sell them Haha.. And there are things that we just do separately. I guess, we are similar in some ways but somehow different. And I prefer it that way. Take care and have a nice day!

I think opposites don't attract so much as they BENEFIT from each other. seeing something from another point of view can sometimes be a great learning experience. hope this helps :)

for me this works just like in love experiences that I have, For my current love we have total difference but hey we really love each other...maybe you have experience this somehow