Don’t shoot the messenger! A new study shows that one of the secrets to a more successful marriage may just be thinner wives.
Marriages are more satisfying for both partners when wives are thinner than their husbands, according to a new study.
The four-year study of 169 newlywed couples found that husbands were more satisfied initially and wives were more satisfied over time when the fairer sex had a lower body mass index — a common measure of body fat. The study was published in the July issue of Social Psychological and Personality Science.
“There’s a lot of pressure on women in our society to achieve an often unreachably small weight,” said Andrea Meltzer, a doctoral candidate at the University of Tennessee and lead author of the study. “The great take-home message from our study is that women of any size can be happy in their relationships with the right partner. It’s relative weight that matters, not absolute weight. It’s not that they have to be small.”
So this means we have a few choices… we can either spend time in the gym and eating right (which is a good idea anyway), or perfecting our culinary skills to fatten our men up. Or some combo of the two, I suppose.
Coming to Crate & Barrel registries everywhere: TrimSpa.
