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29 March 2024

Skinnier wife = Happier marriage

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A graduate student at the University of Tennessee has concluded that marriages are happier when women are thinner than their husbands.

This isn't about women being thin or men being - err - not thin. But research by Andrea Meltzer, a graduate student in psychology, suggests the dynamics that stems from the wife being smaller proportionally than the husband could mean a happier relationship.

Does something about this study rub you the wrong way? Just wait. There's more.

LiveScience reports 165 couples participated in the study, all under the age of 35:

"Every six months for the first four years of their marriages, the volunteers filled out mail-in surveys about their marital satisfaction. They also provided information about their height and weight at marriage, which the researchers used to calculate body mass index, or BMI.

On average, the men in the study were overweight, while the women were normal weight, though there was a wide range of variation among individuals.The results revealed that when wives have lower BMIs than their husbands, husbands are more likely to be satisfied at the beginning of the marriage and stay that way. Wives with lower BMIs than their husbands became more satisfied with time."

Meltzer said her research suggests that physical attractiveness and weight might be more important to men than women. She told LiveScience she hopes her research will take some of the pressure off women to be skinny.

After all, being thinner than hubby is the new thin.