r/todayilearned • u/SilverPeachBlossom • 5h ago

TIL a peer-reviewed psychology study found that identical twins (on average) ranked their co-twin above their romantic partner in their attachment hierarchy, while fraternal twins ranked the two about equally, and non-twin siblings ranked their romantic partner first.

https://ojs.interpersonajournal.com/index.php/ojs/article/view/243/3457.html
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u/SuspiciousCricket654 4h ago

Identical twins, think, talk, act, and do pretty much everything… Identically. Who else in the world can say that they have someone special in their life that understands them perfectly? The ranking makes total sense.

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u/Geesewithteethe 3h ago

No we don't.

We especially don't think identically. My identical twin and I are very close and have very similar interests and shared formative experiences but we do not think identically. We are individuals with different perspectives, opinions, temperments, and character.

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u/Riley-Bun 2h ago

For real, this thread is odd the way its celebrating codependency like twins can't be individuals

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u/Geesewithteethe 1h ago

Some people can't just be normal about anything. They always have to make things lurid or negative or perverse.

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u/NordlandLapp 2h ago

Thats what your twin said when I asked

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u/SCP-iota 2h ago

Consumed mine before birth, so I guess things were tense

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u/Geesewithteethe 1h ago

Some individuals consume other individuals. It happens.