Middle-Child Syndrome? Baby Of The Family? How Your Birth Order Impacts Your Love Life

Your birth order plays a bigger role in your life than you think. Your position in your family influences how you give and receive love, how you interact in relationships and even impacts how much risk you are prepared to take for your bae. Scientists have studied how personality and birth order are linked. Early experiences lay down the foundation of how we act right through into our love lives - and the results are very interesting: Linda Blair in a psychologist and author of Birth Order: What Your Position In The Family Tells About Your Character:

"Oldest children tend to be intelligent and responsible high-achievers. When they grow up and fall in love, these positive traits usually serve them well - they’re organised and responsible, nurturing and good at caring for others. In a relationship, you can depend on first borns to push themselves hard and be self-critical.”

But first-borns can also be perfectionists and want ultimate control, which can pose problems in an equal partnership.