Wife Thinner Than Husband Study Says Marriage More Satisfying.

Here's a bombshell sure to upset many women in this country.  Half our country gets divorced, but one study from the journal of Social Psychology and Personality Science has found marriages are more satisfying when the wife is thinner than the husband.  That's right women.  If you are like the couples in this study, that means obese woman is less likely to be in a satisfying long term relationship, unless they can find a husband bigger than herself.

This four year longitudinal study from the University of Tennessee followed 169 newlywed couples  under 35 years old by looking at their own and their partner's body mass index (BMI).  After controlling for depression, income, education, and whether the relationship ended in divorce, the study found that husbands were more satisfied initially and wives were more satisfied over time when the wives had a lower BMI than their husbands.  That's interesting.  As time went on, women became more satisfied when they were smaller than their husbands. Men are usually the ones who get a bad rap for discussing their wife's weight after pregnancy.  But it looks like it's actually the women who care more about being smaller than their husbands as time goes by.

What does that mean for the men and women out there? We've always known that women generally prefer a man who is at least as tall as she is.    So it would seem to me to make sense that both man and woman would feel more satisfied in their marriage when the man is bigger than she is.  Maybe weight gain after pregnancy, for both men and women,  does have something to do with the high divorce rate in America.  It just so happens that women often gain more than the men because carrying a baby has a tendency to do that. It's just so easy to let things go when a new baby arrives.  It takes hard work and diligence for both mother and father to prevent weight creep from setting in.  Perhaps, if men and women both want to be in a more satisfying marriage, they should both read my advice on how to lose weight after pregnancy.  Looks like all the married couples out there have a little discussing to do tonight while eating dinner in front of the television.

This post does not apply to Mrs Happy.  She's perfect in every way.