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Relationships with loved ones are often described as a blurring of self-other boundaries and by the metaphorical expressions “you are part of me ” and “we are one. ” Research shows that such merging can occur at the conceptual level and at the bodily level. In the study presented here, we investigated whether fac-tors that blur boundaries on the bodily level can also blur bound-aries on the conceptual level. Social psychology studies show that in close interpersonal relationships, the other becomes cog-nitively confounded and merges with the self (Aron, Aron, & Norman, 2001). For example, in speeded classification tasks, the personality characteristics of one’s partners, friends (Aron, Aron, Tudor, & Nelson, 1991), and in-group members (Smith & Henry, 1996) are confused with one’s own characteristics. When asked to depict these relationships, study participants tend to choose drawings in which the self and the other are represented graphically as two close or overlapping circles (Inclusion of th