Smarter, younger wives secret to happy, longer marriages

[FarCenter]

Forget candlelit dinners, romantic weekends away and showering your other half with compliments, the secret to a happy marriage is easy: the woman should be smarter than the man and at least five years younger.

A Bath University team, which recently did a study, has found that men who choose wife at least five years younger to them and even preferably smarter are more likely to sustain the relationship longer.

The researchers first read five-year-old interviews of more than 1,500 couples who were either married or in a serious relationship.

Then they followed it up by checking on 1,000 of the interviewed couples to see how many of the pairs were still going strong, reports the BBC news.

The group noted that in cases where the wife was five or more years older than her husband, they were more than three times as likely to divorce than if they were the same age.

However, when the age gap was reversed, the odds of marital bliss got higher.

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[DJ13]

1. Oh crap, Im a goner

:yoiks:

[FSogol]

2. Hey honey, I've got some bad news.....

;-)

[Ilsa]

3. 16 years down the toilet... nt

[CoffeeCat]

4. i'm sceeerewed!

My hubby is seven years younger than me.

I have to say--we are quite happy.

[kstewart33]

5. Same here. Exactly 7 years older than my ole man,

and we're happy, doing just fine.

Two statistical outliers, you and I.

[seabeyond]

23. 15 yrs in, he is almost 4 yrs young, pretty happy in ours. screwed here too, lol. nt

[Bozita]

6. Is there a Cash For Clunkers program available?

[tammywammy]

11. LOL!

:spray:

[NRaleighLiberal]

7. So I guess my 30 years of bliss with my same aged wife are a mirage?..

[Kaleva]

10. Yes. Thanks to the internet, the mirage has been dispelled.

You've actually been living in misery but didn't know it.

[NRaleighLiberal]

16. well, guess I better wake her up and tell her!!

:beer:

[Kaleva]

8. "men who choose wife..." Women stuck with older, dumber husband

[Curtland1015]

9. Suckers.

:P

[Lydia Leftcoast]

19. Yeah, that was my first thought

Why would I want an older, dumber husband?

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[CoffeeCat]

14. Wow...

...you should write for Hallmark!

[Sal Minella]

17. Indeed! So much sentiment, in such a few words! n/t

[CoffeeCat]

22. Hello fellow Iowan!

I agree about Grassley! He must go!

I'd like to send him a letter or two--and it sure wouldn't have the Hallmark stamp on it!

[Sal Minella]

32. I send him furious letters frequently, and he responds with great tomes of

computer-generated boilerplate telling me he knows what's good for Iowans better than Iowans do, and righteously insisting that enriching corporations of various types is what America is really all about. (not in those exact words)

The Health Insurance Conglomerate Lobbyists of America should have him stuffed and mounted in a glass case in the center of their main rotunda after he dies.

[seabeyond]

24. you're 13, right? nt

[Kaleva]

29. With hard work, you'll be able to produce a higher number someday.

[TankLV]

28. Now, now, now, Dick Armey, just because you LOST NY, you don't have to be snipppy!!!

[Kansas Wyatt]

13. Okay women....

Can you now lay off, since we are ONLY trying to seek a better relationship?

And it's not about SEX... We are seeking an intelligent mate.

Does this finally prove what we have been saying all along?

:yoiks:

[ddeclue]

15. Not to be Captain Obvious but how much of it is because she is "younger" vs. "smarter"?

:popcorn:

[ShortnFiery]

18. There's more to marriage than the illustrious sex act ....

sooner or later one must be able to relate to their life partner on an intellectual level. :eyes:

[DesertRat]

20. So that's why we've been married 29 years

:)

[nomorenomore08]

21. "Man Smart Woman Smarter"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is7FKcywuhI

Sorry, you know I had to post this... :P

[TuxedoKat]

25. I LOVE that song .

Robert Palmer did a great version of it too. :)

[nadinbrzezinski]

26. Damn eleven years, I am exactly four MONTHS younger than HUBBY...

[TankLV]

27. If five years is good, then TWENTY years younger should be even BETTER!!!

Who comes up with this shit?

[iris27]

30. Well, so much for my six blissful years of marriage (plus five of dating) with

my 3-months-younger, IQ-within-5-points-of-mine husband...

[bevoette]

31. i'm 17 years younger...and i KNOW i'm smarter...

i'm in for a long and happy life then, i guess :D

[eppur_se_muova]

33. Need to check correlation with who initiated divorce proceedings ...

Would we find older women grew disappointed with younger spouses, while older men did not?

Speaking as a member of the male sex, that would not surprise me in the slightest.

[Greyskye]

34. Sweet.

Got it right this time.

[treestar]

35. We should all choose our spouse according to statistics

:sarcasm:

Oh, wait, I note from this article, only the man "chooses!" :rofl:

[niyad]

36. let's see-- women tend to outlive men. . .so, by this study, the women are going to be

widows for a pretty long time--let's hope there was lots of money, and she can finally go out and buy toyboys.

this study was funded by viagra, yes?