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Lucy Wigley

Siblings impact your dating life in this incredible way, and ‘only children’ consistently follow this same dating pattern

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Psychologists have given a lot of study to the impact of birth order on all aspects of life, and it has a particularly interesting effect on how people approach their romantic lives - the effect on only children is particularly interesting.

Birth order appears to be an endless source of fascination to psychologists, who reveal lots of interesting ways it impacts all areas of life. From the burden of eldest daughter syndrome to traits shared by kids with 'youngest child syndrome', the findings are often backed by studies and not just old wives tales and speculation.

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