Tanzania, April 19 -- Dar es Salaam. Many people believe that choosing a life partner is driven by physical attraction, chance, or current social circumstances.

However, psychological research into relationships suggests that such choices are often shaped much earlier in life - during childhood.

Drawing on various online sources and academic works, experts note that a person's early life experiences can influence not only who they choose as a partner, but also how they behave within relationships.

Childhood, psychologists say, is not only a period of play and physical growth, but also the first stage in which human beings learn what it means to be loved, ignored, heard or neglected.

From these early experiences, children develop emoti...