I wanna be like you

After dating someone for awhile, it's almost inevitable that you'll adopt some of their habits, some big and some small. It's sort of like a northerner moving South and unintentionally picking up a southern accent.

For instance, one of my friends adopted her boyfriend's penchance to answer affirmative statements with this unusual pronunciation of the word "absolutely." (Think AB-solutely.) It's cute, and for awhile, a few of her friends (including myself) started saying it, too.

But sometimes significant others can become too much like each other, either because they're trying to please each other or because they're too attached at the hip. In some cases, the people lose their sense of individuality, and what once was cute simply becomes annoying.

In any relationship, it's important to remember your own interests and quirks, and not necessarily adopt all of your significant other's. It's one thing for some habits to rub off on you. It's another thing to intentionally change yours because of another person (like changing your style so that your preppy matches his punk).

Have a significant other's habits ever rubbed off on you? Or have yours rubbed off on them? What habits were they? Have any of your friends annoyed you by acting too much like their significant other?