If you are a firstborn...
Best match: Lastborn

Worst match: Another firstborn

According to a study by Walter Toman, a professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany, on 3,000 families, you have pretty good odds of a successful marriage if you're a firstborn who marries a lastborn. Leman says that is because there's an opposites-attract thing going on.


The firstborn is more Type A, and teaches the lastborn little things about organisation, whereas the lastborn helps keep the atmosphere light and reminds the firstborn not to take everything so seriously.

According to the study, the best possible match is a firstborn female with a lastborn male, because their needs are in harmony with each other.

Hillary and Bill Clinton are a famous firstborn couple.
A firstborn with another firstborn, Leman writes, is likely to be a power struggle. They tend to bump heads because firstborns can be perfectionists and like having things done their own way, so it's all a matter of control.

That doesn't mean you're doomed from the start, though. For example, Hillary and Bill Clinton, who have been married 41 years, are both firstborns.

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We wey come be first & last born at the same time nko? Who do we marry? Albinos?

I thought only Africans can think up sh!t like this. Apparently, this 'professor' is directly related to Homo Erectus.

Nonsense.

How many failed marriages are first born to first born?

I totally get the point bout firstborns and control tho. sheesh.

Shey Na everything problem dey ni....chop no chop, drink no drink, na first born no marry first born dey now abi....my question is wetin Una dey proof sef....cos I don't understand

Fact!

I'm a last child I can't marry a first born they are too controlling

This theory ain't gonna work.

This is almost true!

In this part of the world, a first born cannot marry another first born because of all the financial responsibility on their necks

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Is it in our 1999 constitution? If not, na fallacy

Good reason but not enough to convince me

dominique:
In this part of the world, a first born cannot marry another first born because of all the financial responsibility on their necks

fallacy

DrinkLimca:
Not all first born..

What of in a very rich family,, The children all have their own cash and they don't depend on their first born..

That's a different case. But in middle/class families, first borns share a lot of the parents responsibilities

dominique:
In this part of the world, a first born cannot marry another first born because of all the financial responsibility on their necks

I was thinking the exact same thing.

There's a little sense in the nonsense though. First kids are often oga ish in nature and two ogas in one house make the house a law court.

First born + first born = poverty

First born + Last born = Comfort zone

Last born + last born = Wealth

DrinkLimca:
I don't agree, the success of marriage is not determine by whether the couples are firstborn or last born..

It's about Love, tolerance, and loyalty..

I had to like this comment.

Human behaviour isn't something that one can just simply sit down in his father's house and predict, everybody is different and hence people should not be generalised in such a manner.
Currently I am in a relationship with a fellow lastborn and we are doing well.

In my opinion, the OP is an introvert, anti-social or both, probably spends all day in doors

A very good research topic for pscho-sociology students

We need more study to test the validity of this claims in Nigeria statistically using appropriate test of significances

Rukkydelta:
I'm a last child I can't marry a first born they are too controlling

Stereotype.
... Test and see... I'm not.

dominique:
In this part of the world, a first born cannot marry another first born because of all the financial responsibility on their necks

This logic no longer applies to our current generation. The age gap between many siblings today are usually very slim. Some so called last born even graduate and get jobs before some first born. Besides, not all parents shift responsibilities on the first born, especially in this generation where many parents don't wish for more than 2 - 3 children.

dominique:
In this part of the world, a first born cannot marry another first born because of all the financial responsibility on their necks

Na b4 I de reason like this until our own first born no blow