{"id":171306,"date":"2015-12-02T08:22:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T08:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=171306"},"modified":"2015-12-02T08:22:18","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T08:22:18","slug":"couples-with-the-biggest-height-differences-found-to-have-best-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=171306","title":{"rendered":"Couples with the biggest height differences found to have best relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shared interests, a sense of humour and a healthy sex life may all go a long way to creating a satisfying marriage.<\/p>\n

But when it comes to making a wife really happy, having a tall husband may be the key, according to a study.<\/p>\n

Researchers found that the greater the height difference in a couple, the happier the wife was.
\nBut the effect faded as the years went on, they discovered.<\/p>\n

\u2018Although it has been known that women prefer tall men in mating for evolutionary reasons, no study has investigated whether a taller husband makes his wife happier,\u2019 said researcher Kitae Sohn, from Konkuk University in Seoul, South Korea.<\/p>\n

\u2018A greater height difference in a couple was positively related to the wife\u2019s happiness.\u2019
\nHe added that the relationship between height and happiness \u2018gradually weakened over time and entirely dissipated by 18 years of marital duration\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018Nevertheless, the long period of the dissipation indicates a powerful impact of male height on women\u2019s psychology, probably prepared by evolution,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

Dr Sohn, who analyzed data from 7,850 women collected from a long-term population survey, said there could be many reasons why a taller man was linked to a happier wife.<\/p>\n

\u2018One is the intrinsic value of height; that is, women simply like tall men, while unable to say why,\u2019 he wrote in the journal Personality and Individual Differences.<\/p>\n

\u2018This is similar to people favoring fatty, salty, and sugary foods without knowing exactly why: such foods are essential to survival but were scarce as humans evolved – hence craving such foods increased reproductive fitness in the past.<\/p>\n

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Having a tall husband keeps wives happy – but only for the first 18 years of marriage until effect wears off.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018Similarly, the female preference for male height increased women\u2019s reproductive fitness.\u2019
\nAnd he suggested various scenarios as to why height would lose its influence over time.<\/p>\n

For example, the wife \u2018might get used to her husband\u2019s height and its correlates such as physical attractiveness and strength\u2019, he said.<\/p>\n

Or she \u2018might lose her characteristics that enabled her to marry her tall husband, such as beauty; the loss could cause her unhappiness directly or indirectly by changing her husband\u2019s behaviour, such as showing less affection to her, more affection to other women, and providing less childcare\u2019, he said.<\/p>\n

Women evolved to prefer tall men because they were perceived to be stronger, \u2018and naturally they are happy when they have what they like\u2019, he concluded.<\/p>\n

\u2018But as for other desired objects, pleasure from having them dissipates. What was surprising is that the complete dissipation took 18 years.\u2019<\/p>\n

–
\nBy: dailymail.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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