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“Where do you come ___ your family?” According to ___ Sulloway, a US sociologist, ___ order in which we ___ into this world – first-___, middle or last-born – ___ not only help shape ___ personality, it could affect ___ success of our relationships ___. Sulloway has interviewed more ___ 6000 people over the ___ 26 years in an ___ to prove this theory: “___ compete for a place ___ the family”, he says, “___ if one role has ___ been taken, later-born ___ have to choose from ___’s left”. Because first-borns ___ life with exclusive parental ___, they are often more ___ to accepting their parents’ ___, while later-born children, ___ to compete for a ___ in the family, may ___ into rebellious adults.
So ___ birth order has such ___ significant impact on our ___, does it affect our ___ with other people? Can we, for example, judge the suitability of our partners by their birth order? Absolutely, says Sulloway, “Birth order is an excellent way of telling whether a relationship will survive. For example, a marriage between a typical first-born husband, who’s dominating and assertive, and a later-born wife who likes being looked after, is very likely to work out”.
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