So basically I read something saying the difference between に似る and と似る is
that と marks one side of a mutual relationship and に only shows the standard
of comparison, but I have no idea what that means so can someone help? Here
are the example sentences it came with:

> その父と息子は似ている。  
>  その子はお父さんと似ている。  
>  その子はお父さんに似ている。  
>  その父は息子と似ている。  
>  xその父は息子に似ている。

Apparently the only one wrong is the last one and I'm super confused as to
why.
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Can you tell me the difference between に似る and と似る?
When you see a father and a son together no one would ever say to the father
"you look just like your son", but it would be perfectly natural to say "your
son looks just like you".

In this example the father is the 'standard of comparison', so if you are
going to use に it should be attached only to the father.

と treats both parties equally, so you can add it to either the father or the
son (or both).
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