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Do you think your birth order affected you? Do you think your partner's birth order affected them? How so?
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Me: no.
Him: yes.
For more reasons than the obvious.
Him: yes.
For more reasons than the obvious.
Me: No
Her: very much :)
She just wouldn't be the same if she wasn't born the first of 4 girls :)
Her: very much :)
She just wouldn't be the same if she wasn't born the first of 4 girls :)
Yes and no
yes. my only older sibling has asperger syndrome so I feel like i have more of the traits of an oldest child. my boyfriend definitely acts like the oldest. he keeps to himself and he's hard working. we both can be very stubborn;P
Yes. Yes. Mine mainly affected me because I was kind of treated differently than my two older sisters. One of which was beautiful, and the other very smart. I am very smart as well, but feel like the same time and effort was not put in for me as it was for them.
Absolutely. She is the youngest child and I am an eldest child and it shows in our personalities. A lot of theories state that we should be compatible. We'll see...
Stop saying we'll see. You can be so confident about things. Let's apply that universally.
Female, 36-40 years, Dating, DC, US | Oct 02, 2011
Female, 36-40 years, Dating, DC, US | Oct 02, 2011
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People make of things what they make of them. You could play either side of the issue with this one.
My What? im the baby by a whole 46 mintues im a twin, Her abosultly she is the oldest of 5 and the only girl, made her a caretaker early that didnt put up with no shit.
YES! We were just talking about it (or maybe I was yammering at him and he was nodding along). He's a playful youngest child and I'm an attention-whore middle child. His youngest-child-brazen-spirit qualities have been a spectacle of amusement. I believe that my attention-sucking nature is...good for him.
No and No
We're both the oldest. You can tell because we're pretty damn bossy. And set in our ways of doing things. I know I 'grew up quickly' being the oldest in a single-parent household.
My birth order definitely affected me, in that I'm an only-child. Thankfully I was socialized better than most only-children because my mother had an in-home daycare until I was 10 years old. It was like having 4-6 brothers and sisters 5 days a week, some of whom came to my house every week for all 10 years. I still consider one of them a brother to me.
My girlfriend is the youngest by a pretty wide margin, which can make her feel left behind by the rest of her family I think.
My girlfriend is the youngest by a pretty wide margin, which can make her feel left behind by the rest of her family I think.
Yes and Yes.
Yes, it did. Because I have two older brothers, and was raised by my father- they have always had 'something' to say about 'everything', in a way it's protective, but it has helped me watch what I say and do in order to represent myself the best that I can. They also affected my music interests (swaying me from Spears to Silverchair). For him, not quite. His relationship with his sister is pretty good- however their personalities are completely different on a 'maturity' level.
I definitely got the leader (D) qualities in the family... I don't see the mediator qualities in A that you usually see in middle children... but maybe being the only girl skews that, not sure.
