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It's relative I guess bc you hear it all the time. However, I'm single and there are other famous and non famous single men doing quite well physically, mentally, financially and emotionally. I'm 35 and I've ran the numbers and I'd be better off single rather than marrying someone that has children or a woman that makes a much lower income than myself. I also workout a lot and have lost a lot of weight and gained more muscle and muscle tone over the past year. It's hard to workout like I do with a marriage/marriage and children; not saying that you can't do it bc people do but I see more married couples with children that don't. I have some really good close friends and I've into my church and that alone plays a role in my emotional health. I can definitely see how a being married to a woman that makes as much or more than I do would help to improve me and her financially, but that woman is few and far between where I live my daily life.
So my point is that maybe those studies are starting to become less relevant in a world where there are more single people that are doing well.
The studies address populations. It doesn't mean segments that naturally lay on either side of the curve are absent. It means in general for most. And the data can and will change as culture changes. It's not as if men are innately incapable of forging emotionally intimate relationships (apparently a requirement to thrive for most) since they do so with their wives. It just shouldn't be limited to their wives. I've seen the downside of this with my own father. It seems to get worse with age.
I have seen mixed bag everywhere I have lived and its different in age sets. (coast to coast)
I think the total 1-10 score is more like an average of all scores on : looks, income, education, miscellaneous life skills and relationship emotional skills
On the shallow end I would say we are about equal. I have better hair and he has better abs.
HAHA! But I dunno...everyone thinks he is older than I am when he is younger. But we are both lean with great teeth. (thank you braces! ) Slightly above average heights. Both dress non - sloppy.
Income- he makes more than me currently. But in the past I have made more than him. In the future I will make equal or more than him.
Education - equal. We both went to a couple different schools for a couple different degrees. His GPA slayed mine as he likes to work and always had over a 4.0 due to heavy course loads. I only kept mine from 3.6-4.0. I have a more rounded background though. His focus points where technology(main), religious study and theology. Mine were english, medical, art and technology.
Misc life skills - we can/do both fix things/cook/housework. But he is better at computers and cars.
I am better at cooking at housework. But his chili and pasta salad recipe he learned from his grampa is pretty darn awesome. We share the same values on relationship behavior (whats acceptable and whats not)
Relationship skills - also equal. We both have had LTR before so we know what worth fight about and whats worth just a dirty look and letting it go. LOL
How? When you first meet someone you're a blank slate; excluding meeting through online dating sites.
No one is really a blank slate. You can see how they're dressed, who they're associating with, how they act. Even the venue where you meet is self-selecting: a bar on trance DJ night, a fundraiser for the art museum, the farmer's market, etc. It might not tell you the whole story about a person, but it still gives an introduction.
Mostly yes, I think good looking people like other good looking people. but a lot of the times I see that the men are less physically attractive then the women they're with.
It exists and there is no marginalization based on married or single. At least, I have never come across anything suggesting as much in the literature. It is well known that women bond with each other with greater ease and that's why they manage better when single.
Don't need to...just talk to the divorced and widowed women you know, or observe them.
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) Slightly above average heights. Both dress non - sloppy.
