Forget what you’ve heard before about what men want. It’s not high heels, and it’s not lingerie. Men, above all else, want a woman who’s smart.
According to a new study cited by The Times of India, men look for brains more than anything else when searching for a partner. Since the 1990s, men are happier in marriages where they tie the knot with a woman who has equal or higher intelligence than they do, according to the study.
“This, the study confirmed, was a reversal of the 50s, when Marilyn Monroe starred in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and when a marriage was most likely to last when a husband was better educated than his wife (and could presumably flatter him by saying that he knew best),” The Times of India reported.
The study also found marriages where the partners have a similar level of education have a higher chance of success. This is a newer trend, since marriages until the 1980s were 34 percent more likely to end in divorce when the wife had more education than the men, The Times of India reported.
“Couples marrying in the early ’90s were among the first for whom wives’ educational advantage was no longer associated with a higher risk of divorce. Couples with the same education levels are now less likely to divorce,” the researchers said, according to The Independent.
Part of this may be because people want someone who will make them smarter, since marriages tend to make both partners more intelligent. According to a study from Macquarie University in Australia, married couples create an interpersonal connection that allows them both to learn from each other. This is why couples can often finish each other’s sentences or fill in memory gaps for each other, the study said.
Source: pubvirtrue.com
