Do you have a relationship like this with someone, or does seeing something like this completely creep you out?

-- Anonymous, October 20, 1999

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Yes! The best is when you can just make high-pitched and low gutteral noises at each other and understand perfectly.

-- Anonymous, October 20, 1999

Even though my girlfriend and I do this sometimes, it still creeps us out a little. We'll just give each other a little look like "Ooh, we sound a little bit too much like a 'couple'" Then we realize that simply by the use of that look we have doomed ourselves to couple-dom. It's a vicious cycle that creates cuteness-induced nausea.

-- Anonymous, October 20, 1999

I think of my marriage as one big comedy act; sometimes he plays the straight man, and sometimes I do, but we are always on the married stage, performing for the audience.

What scares me are the dress alikes...talking alike, you get that from living together..a sort of short hand, a code to get you from A to B without a two hour explanation. I don't mean the "we just went on vacation and both have tshirts from Disneyland" either, but the matching windbreakers and sneakers look. Scares the living hell right out of me.

-- Anonymous, October 21, 1999

My fiance' and I always end up dressing alike. We'll meet somewhere and we'll both be wearing blue shirts with khaki pants or gray shirts with jeans. If we have time, I always make him change. :-)
We also both talk really fast when we are together, and only we can understand each other.

-- Anonymous, October 21, 1999

What scares me the most, is I don't do this with Jake - my husband - nearly as much as it happens with my friend/co-worker Jenn.

She and I are CONSTANTLY finishing each other's sentences and/or saying things at precisely the same time. It's cooky crazy zany! And just a lil' bit scary.

We still haven't been able to figure out if it's more scary that I'm turning into her or she's turning into me.

Either way, I think I'm frightened. (=

-- Anonymous, October 21, 1999

We dress alike because I steal his clothes. If we're too close, he goes back and changes.

I'm going to dress as my boyfriend for Halloween, just to piss him off.

-- Anonymous, October 21, 1999

My husband and I often finish each other's sentences, and are always exchanging knowing looks. Especially during a tv program. We have the Oh My God Can You Believe That? look, the That Was SOOO Cheezy look, the Damn, Couldn't Have Said It Better Myself look, and various others.

We also play off each other well when telling stories, either helping the other one out when they are searching for the right words, or in my case, backing him up on a story I've heard him tell before only now he is embellishing and making a true story into more of a tall tale for the sake of entertainment. Or we just back one another with straight faces when we are trying to convince someone of something ridiculous.

The other day we had lunch at a Mexican restaurant. Coming out we saw two hobos approaching, obviously preparing to ask for money. This happens to us all the time, like way more than it happens to other people I think. Mostly if they have a convincing poor luck story I will cave and give them a little money, but sometimes we're just not in the mood for it. That was one of those days, so when they gave us their rehearsed plea, I heard my husband say, "I'd like to help you but we're spread a little thin right now because I just gave two bucks to a one-armed banjo player in there" and motioned to the Mexican restaurant. We saw that they were missing plenty of teeth as they screwed up their faces in bewilderment and scratched their heads. "He plays with one arm? How does he do that?" one of them asked. My husband said, "Well, he just puts it in his lap and, uh..." so I jumped in to save him with: "... he uses his foot on the top and his one arm on the bottom! He's pretty good!" With that, we left them there to figure out why a one-armed banjo player would even be playing in a Mexican restaurant in the first place. We laughed so hard for half an hour. So, we don't really talk alike, but we compliment each other well.

-- Anonymous, October 21, 1999

Oh, the dreaded "Twinkie syndrome." (That's when you look the same, like two twinkies in a package.)I can't tell you how often my boyfriend and I have to have a little spat because we are both wearing, say, a dark green shirt and brown pants.

"You change."

"But I got dressed first."

"But I changed last time."

"Look, I don't have any other clean t-shirts!"

"That's because it's your turn to do the laundry, you lazy bum."

etc. How did we end up with so many clothes that look the same? Why didn't anyone STOP us before it was too late?

And then there's the "We both just said the same exact thing at the same exact moment" phenomenon. Ewww. That one freaks me out.

-- Anonymous, October 21, 1999

Just for the record: I don't prefer Cal to Taylor. I am just trying to make him feel welcome.

-- Anonymous, October 21, 1999

We know, Eric.

We know. (=

-- Anonymous, October 21, 1999

I don't know if it's me, but I have this relationship with THREE people in my life - my husband and two best friends. Usually, I have told them some sort of story that even I realize sounds like I've heavily embellished. Shortly thereafter, I am out with one of them and EXACTLY THE SAME THING HAPPENS! If I had a dollar for the amount of times that I've heard,"OH MY GOD! I*COULD*NOT*LOOK*AT*YOU!!! I THOUGHT I'D DIE!", and the laughter that ensues, I'd be a rich woman. Nothing beats being able to reduce someone to laughter with just a knowing look.

-- Anonymous, October 22, 1999

Here was the absolute creepiest-but-true thing that ever happened between my wife and me. One recent morning, I woke up and said, "That was weird. I had a really vivid dream about Toni (a former neighbor from about eight years ago who we hadn't seen or discussed since we moved)last night. I haven't thought about her in years." The wife turns to me, slackjawed. "Oh my God", says she, "Marie (another former neighbor who we hear from maybe annually) called yesterday. I didn't have a chance to tell you. She mentioned that Toni died! We talked about her for a long time." Coincidence? Or...something else? You be the judge.

-- Anonymous, October 25, 1999