Dear old Mom may have passed more down to you than your hair color and sparkling blue eyes. In fact, you take your mom out on every date you go on. No, not as a chaperone but in your habits and mannerisms of romantic relationships. The way you handle relationships was formed long before you got interested in romantic relationships. The ability to love, trust and handle relationship conflicts forms in infancy, according to researchers. So if your mom had trouble bonding with you as a baby, then you may have trouble bonding with others later in life. A distant mother may foretell the inability to love and be loved later in life. Her relationship with her significant others – spouses, boyfriends, stepdads, or otherwise – may be the example you follow in a relationship.