The New York Daily News published an article today, March 26th that describes a study that found women who marry uglier men then themselves, have a happier marriage. The study came from the Journal of Family Psychology and was based on interviews with 82 newlywed couples.
Both spouses tended to behave more positively when wives were more attractive than their husbands and more negatively when husbands were more attractive than their wives," said the study by UCLA.
The study found that physical attraction for long term compatablilty was much more important to men than women.
"Physical attractiveness is not as important to women, in contrast, relative attractiveness may only affect them through its effect on their husbands," the study says.
The full article can be found at http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2008/03/26/2008-03-26_when_shes_hot__hes_not_theres_better_sho.html
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
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that is the single dumbest thing I have ever read in my life.
Attractiveness is relative. What one person likes another may despise.
Like I do not under any circumstances think christina aguilera, jennifer lopez or or beth "fake boobs" ostrosky are anything close to attractive. By comparison, mark anthony actually has TALENT where as jennifer lopez's best contribution to society since "selena" was "maid in manhatten", Howard stern has so much money that he can buy just about any woman he wants, and christina aguilera's "geeky" husband has, uh, a BRAIN.
Like the great Ronw White says, "Ya can't fix stupid".
Pretty girls are a dime-a-dozen. And from my experience, the smarter the chick, the better lover she is.
Ahhh...what one fails to take into account in such an article is that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder". What one deems unattractive may be beautiful to another. To me the outside is not as important as the inside. THAT is where true beauty is. Maybe it all boils down to the WAY in which we define beauty. And in such an article a very important part of the definition is missing.
Forget about beauty being on the inside,and forget about the genes...the bottom line is that men with wives prettier than they work harder to make a successful relationship. When a man always remembers to be romantic in the ways that please his sweetheart, and knows how to communicate effectively through good and bad, his woman will definately respond!!!!
HEY OUT THERE.., a question. Is it as shallow as what was just written? Does the reverse hold true? If I am a great person, nice looking, fun, loving and compassionate, do I not stand a chance because I am not what People Magazine defines as one of the top beautiful women?
I think women are more open minded. You rarely see a man with a woman less attractive than he.
So, if it is about the inside of a person and women are open-minded, why don't women date or marry other women?
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