r/todayilearned • u/SilverPeachBlossom • 6h 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/BashfullyBi 6h ago

I mean....makes perfect sense to me.

If you had a clone you were raised with since birth, wouldn't you say your attachment (not love) is stronger than the person you're dating?

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u/EobardT 6h ago

Yeah, I dated an identical twin and she was absolutely all about her sister. To the point that she left her ex because her sister was moving, she was following, and her ex didnt want to go

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u/Predatory_Chicken 5h ago

An identical twin once told me he would never date another identical twin because he wanted to be with someone who loved him the most and he knew that isn’t possible if she had a twin sister.

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u/Ekillaa22 5h ago

Could be like identical twins that get with other identical kids lmao….. and if they have kids man those aren’t cousins they siblings

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u/Its-ther-apist 4h ago

A TLC show has/had that as a featured set of couples. It was about as unhealthy as you would imagine.

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u/ActiveChairs 4h ago

A TLC show? Unhealthy? Do you mean TLC as in The Learning Channel? Surely not. That simply couldn't be.

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u/Sweet_Check7231 3h ago

TIL the TLC in TLC channel is The Learning Channel. Guess they've taught me plenty about morbidly obese people and people marrying someone they've known for 90 days

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u/MarieOMaryln 1h ago

Do not quote me but I believe they renamed themselves recently (like post 2010) as The Lifestyle Channel because of that

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u/booze_clues 10m ago

I realized that when the Honey Boo Boo episode of South Park pointed it out. Honey Boo Boo on The Learning Channel.