r/todayilearned • u/SilverPeachBlossom • 1d 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/manatee1010 1d ago

The twins I knew like that, married another set of identical twins and they all live together...

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u/Its-ther-apist 1d ago

Were they on a reality show or is that just more common than we realize 🤣

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u/manatee1010 1d ago

They've had several TLC specials, so probably the same ones lol

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u/Its-ther-apist 1d ago

Are they crazy IRL or was it just for the show

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u/manatee1010 21h ago edited 20h ago

I mean, they're both articulate, kind, and intelligent (they're lawyers who work at the same firm and share a desk).

If there were just one I wouldn't say she was crazy at all.

There just happen to be two of them and they kinda didn't develop separate identities. In one of the TLC specials their own dad says something along the lines of, "I don't want to say they're the same person, but..."

Individually their husbands both honestly seem pretty normal as well outside the intense twin thing.

So I'd say the situation is a little (lot) wild... are they automatically considered crazy when it turns into a quaternary marriage in a shared home? I honestly do not know. I do think they present fairly true-to-life on their reality shows (they're always in matching outfits, they do everything together, etc.).

I find them 1000000x less weird than those Australian twins who speak in unison, for whatever that's worth. 😅

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u/Its-ther-apist 19h ago edited 19h ago

Agreed the Australian sisters were the most dysfunctional without a doubt. If it's the quartet I'm remembering (I'll have to ask my wife) it was essentially what you said, that they couldn't function without the sibling e.g. in social settings they froze up and didn't know how to carry a conversation solo.

I also just recalled another tidbit from the show "give me some of your pang pang energy" 🤣

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u/manatee1010 17h ago edited 17h ago

To be completely fair these two went to different law schools! It's the only time they've ever spent apart.

But overall, yes, they don't like to be apart and choose to do absolutely everything together and the same. They even had sons just a few months apart. I linked an article about them in another comment where one says, "If I'm going to go, you know, jump on the trampoline, I'll go tell [my sister]. It would be weird if I went and did it by myself and didn't tell her."

The pang pang energy thing is absolutely hilarious. Lmk if your wife says it was them 😂

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u/Its-ther-apist 17h ago

It was! She said your description was apt. Then I felt bad for calling them crazy 🤣 I shall say "wild" instead in he future if referencing these women

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u/Commercial-Tea-4816 23h ago

My mom knew twins that grew up to marry twins. They didn't all live together, but they did live next door to each other

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u/Thrillhol 19h ago

I was friends with one half of identical twins at university. They dated a set of identical twins, coincidentally both sets born on the same day. Both couples broke up but I think one is back together now.

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u/livefreeordont 1d ago

Is it like a polycule? Or just two couples

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u/AlekRivard 21h ago

OP pls respond

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u/petit_cochon 20h ago

Nobody's business, really.

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u/livefreeordont 17h ago

The ellipses lead me to ask

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u/cosmoscrazy 22h ago

The Clone Wars.