Younger wife' for marital bliss
The secret to a happy marriage for men is choosing a wife who is smarter and at least five years younger than you, say UK experts.
These pairings are more likely to go the distance, particularly if neither has been divorced in the past, according to the Bath University team.
The findings predict a happy future for pop star Beyonce Knowles, 28, and rapper husband Jay-Z, 39.
The work is published in the European Journal of Operational Research.
The researchers studied interviews of more than 1,500 couples who were married or in a serious relationship.
Five years later, they followed up 1,000 of the couples to see which had lasted.
For better or worse
They found that if the wife was five or more years older than her husband, they were more than three times as likely to divorce than if they were the same age.
If the age gap is reversed, and the man is older than the woman, the odds of marital bliss are higher.
Add in a better education for the woman - Beyonce has her high school diploma, unlike husband Jay-Z - and the chances of lasting happiness improve further.
Those who have never divorced fare better too. But couples in which one member has been through a divorce in the past are less stable than those in which both members are divorcees.
Dr Emmanuel Fragniere and colleagues do say that men and women choose partners "on the basis of love, physical attraction, similarity of taste, beliefs and attitudes, and shared values."
But they say that using "objective factors" such as age, education and cultural origin "may help reduce divorce".
Womens heads are f**ked up and it doesn't matter how smart or what age you are...it just depends on what nut-case your with
what if you are older and smarter?
Quote from: illdecide on October 27, 2009, 05:41:01 PM
Womens heads are f**ked up and it doesn't matter how smart or what age you are...it just depends on what nut-case your with
DING DING DING!!! We have a winner!!!
Could not possibly agree with you any more illdecide... try find the hottest girl with the least amount of crazy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zADosF3XoQ
Quote from: screenexile on October 27, 2009, 05:47:15 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zADosF3XoQ
Class ...and so true :D
Quote from: screenexile on October 27, 2009, 05:47:15 PM
Quote from: illdecide on October 27, 2009, 05:41:01 PM
Womens heads are f**ked up and it doesn't matter how smart or what age you are...it just depends on what nut-case your with
DING DING DING!!! We have a winner!!!
Could not possibly agree with you any more illdecide... try find the hottest girl with the least amount of crazy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zADosF3XoQ
fixed that for you....
ye may think women are crazy but man are so unbelievably infuriating...
Quote from: leenie on October 27, 2009, 05:47:01 PM
what if you are older and smarter?
I suppose you'll need to get a cat then....
Quote from: leenie on October 27, 2009, 05:55:42 PM
Quote from: screenexile on October 27, 2009, 05:47:15 PM
Quote from: illdecide on October 27, 2009, 05:41:01 PM
Womens heads are f**ked up and it doesn't matter how smart or what age you are...it just depends on what nut-case your with
DING DING DING!!! We have a winner!!!
Could not possibly agree with you any more illdecide... try find the hottest girl with the least amount of crazy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zADosF3XoQ
fixed that for you....
ye may think women are crazy but man are so unbelievably infuriating...
Are you saying women aren't infuriating ???
Maybe its just the woman I have so.........
Why do they flip out over the smallest of things, everything is fine until they discover you left a dirty plate on the floor at the armchair and then there's roaring and shouting and you're hearing about everything you've done wrong or haven't done for the last 6 months.
Quote from: pintsofguinness on October 27, 2009, 06:18:34 PM
Why do they flip out over the smallest of things, everything is fine until they discover you left a dirty plate on the floor at the armchair and then there's roaring and shouting and you're hearing about everything you've done wrong or haven't done for the last 6 months.
But she has a lot to listen to / put up with too - in fairness
Quote from: Caid on October 27, 2009, 06:25:54 PM
Quote from: pintsofguinness on October 27, 2009, 06:18:34 PM
Why do they flip out over the smallest of things, everything is fine until they discover you left a dirty plate on the floor at the armchair and then there's roaring and shouting and you're hearing about everything you've done wrong or haven't done for the last 6 months.
But she has a lot to listen to / put up with too - in fairness
i'm delightful
Quote from: pintsofguinness on October 27, 2009, 06:26:26 PM
Quote from: Caid on October 27, 2009, 06:25:54 PM
Quote from: pintsofguinness on October 27, 2009, 06:18:34 PM
Why do they flip out over the smallest of things, everything is fine until they discover you left a dirty plate on the floor at the armchair and then there's roaring and shouting and you're hearing about everything you've done wrong or haven't done for the last 6 months.
But she has a lot to listen to / put up with too - in fairness
i'm delightful
Me too... I don't understand it!
Quote from: pintsofguinness on October 27, 2009, 06:18:34 PM
Why do they flip out over the smallest of things, everything is fine until they discover you left a dirty plate on the floor at the armchair and then there's roaring and shouting and you're hearing about everything you've done wrong or haven't done for the last 6 months.
6 months?
You have a wife who can only remember 6 month's worth?
Lucky sod.
Quote from: leenie on October 27, 2009, 05:47:01 PM
what if you are older and smarter?
You'll only ever be older.
More fuel to the fire
Date-rape drink spiking 'an urban legend'
By Stephen Adams
Tuesday October 27 2009
Widespread spiking of drinks with date-rape drugs such as Rohypnol and GHB is an "urban legend" fuelled by young women unwilling to accept they have simply consumed too much alcohol, academics believe.
A study of more than 200 students revealed many wrongly blamed the effects of a "bad night out" on date-rape drugs, when they had just drunk excessively.
Many are in "active denial" that drinking large amounts of alcohol can leave them "incoherent and incapacitated", the Kent University researchers concluded.
Young women's fears about date-rape drugs are so ingrained that students mistakenly think it is a more important factor in sexual assault than being drunk, taking drugs or walking alone at night.
The study, published in the British Journal of Criminology, found three-quarters of students identified drink spiking as an important risk – more than alcohol or drugs.
More than half said they knew someone whose drink had been spiked.
But despite popular beliefs, police have found no evidence that rape victims are commonly drugged with such substances, the researchers said.
Dr Adam Burgess from the university's School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, said: "Young women appear to be displacing their anxieties about the consequences of consuming what is in the bottle on to rumours of what could be put there by someone else.
"The reason why fear of drink-spiking has become widespread seems to be a mix of it being more convenient to guard against than the effects of alcohol itself and the fact that such stories are exotic – like a more adult version of 'stranger danger'."
Rituals to protect drinks from contamination, such as taking drinks to the lavatory in clubs and bars and buying only bottled drinks, have become commonplace, the academics noted.
Among young people, drink spiking stories have attractive features that could "help explain" their disproportionate loss of control after drinking alcohol, the study found.
Dr Burgess said: "Our findings suggest guarding against drink spiking has also become a way for women to negotiate how to watch out for each other in an environment where they might well lose control from alcohol consumption."
Co-researcher Dr Sarah Moore said: "We would be very interested in finding out whether the urban myth of spiking is also the result of parents feeling unable to discuss with their adult daughters how to manage drinking and sex and representing their anxieties about this through discussion of drink spiking risks."
Nick Ross, chair of the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science, commented: "There is no evidence of widespread use of hypnotics in sexual assault, let alone Rohypnol, despite many attempts to prove the contrary.
"During thousands of blood and alcohol tests lots of judgement-impairing compounds were discovered, but they were mostly street drugs or prescription pharmaceuticals taken by the victims themselves, and above all alcohol was the common theme.
"As Dr Burgess observes, it is not scientific evidence which keeps the drug rape myth alive but the fact that it serves so many useful functions."
Dr Burgess and his team questioned more than 200 students at universities in London and south east England.
Earlier this year, Australian researchers found that nont one of 97 young men and women admitted to hospital over 19 months to two Perth hospital claiming to have had their drinks spiked, had in fact been drugged.
This auld timer knows what he's at
Somali man, '112', weds girl, 17
Hundreds of people have attended a wedding in central Somalia between a man who says he is 112 years old, and his teenage wife.
Ahmed Muhamed Dore - who already has 18 children by five wives - said he would like to have more with his new wife, Safia Abdulleh, who is 17 years old.
"Today God helped me realise my dream," Mr Dore said, after the wedding in the region of Galguduud.
The bride's family said she was "happy with her new husband".
Mr Dore said he and his bride - who is young enough to be his great-great-grand-daughter - were from the same village in Somalia and that he had waited for her to grow up to propose.
"I didn't force her, but used my experience to convince her of my love; and then we agreed to marry," the groom said.
The BBC's Mohamed Olad Hassan in Mogadishu says the marriage in the town of Guriceel is being described by Somalian historians as the first of its kind in the Horn of Africa nation for over a century.
Sourced BBCi: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8331136.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8331136.stm)
Quote from: ziggysego on October 29, 2009, 11:14:44 AM
"I didn't force her, but used my experience to convince her of my love; and then we agreed to marry," the groom said.
WTF
Well it is the Horn of Africa!
Norny old Bastid...to think that at that age you'd still be alive never mind still humping is amazing
Ildecide you say its about the craziness of the woman u marry yeh yeh f**king right. Women only go crazy due to the crap they put up with from men. Lazy gits the lot of them. Couldnt run a house if their lives depended on it.
Quote from: tyrone girl on October 29, 2009, 11:52:50 AM
Ildecide you say its about the craziness of the woman u marry yeh yeh f**king right. Women only go crazy due to the crap they put up with from men. Lazy gits the lot of them. Couldnt run a house if their lives depended on it.
Yeah yeah yeah we don't need to run a house because we have women to do it for us, thats their duty in life and it's only the single women who are giving off about it
Well im giving off about it and im not single so ur point is flawed.
Quote from: tyrone girl on October 29, 2009, 12:34:36 PM
Well im giving off about it and im not single so ur point is flawed.
Oh yes you are, when did you get married then...was it yesterday in Vegas :D?
Oops i forgot your never attached to your married ::) ::)
There is a big difference between having a boyfriend and a husband...Married women accept it as it's part of marriage...single women just have too much to say for themselves and their boyfriends need to let them feel the hairy side of their hand (and of course them girlfirends will remain single until they get the act together)
Your wife sounds like a lucky woman - could we swap places
Quote from: tyrone girl on October 29, 2009, 02:32:01 PM
Your wife sounds like a lucky woman - could we swap places
No, but you can take her and she'll do your cleaning up for ya ;) ;D
A quote from a man much wiser than me has helped me in my dealings with members of the fairer sex! If you remember this at all times it will help you in any situation...
"Weemin are mental!"
Simple... to the point... and more importantly an undisputed fact!
blah blah blah............
men are emotional retarded (am i allow to use that word.... will i get reported.. i know it is p.c in the states)
but they do have good points ::)
Quote from: leenie on October 29, 2009, 04:34:18 PM
blah blah blah............
men are emotional retarded (am i allowed to use that word.... will i get reported.. i know it is p.c in the states)
but the do have the good points ::)
Like being able to construct sentences
Quote from: blewuporstuffed on October 29, 2009, 04:44:02 PM
Quote from: leenie on October 29, 2009, 04:34:18 PM
blah blah blah............
men are emotional retarded (am i allowed to use that word.... will i get reported.. i know it is p.c in the states)
but the do have the good points ::)
Like being able to construct sentences
:D :D :D
Quote from: leenie on October 29, 2009, 04:34:18 PM
blah blah blah............
men are emotional retarded (am i allowed to use that word.... will i get reported.. i know it is p.c in the states)
but the do have the good points ::)
Well mines not pointed it's rounded
You shout too much too much about that round knob, illdecide,
the classic compensation for male inadequacies ;D
Quote from: Main Street on October 29, 2009, 05:02:44 PM
You shout too much too much about that round knob, illdecide,
the classic compensation for male inadequacies ;D
I didn't say it was round...i said it was rounded and not in a point as another poster commented
QuoteThe secret to a happy marriage for men is choosing a wife who is smarter and at least five years younger than you, say UK experts.
These pairings are more likely to go the distance, particularly if neither has been divorced in the past, according to the Bath University team.
I am not sure what this says about marriage, but it says a lot about the British, there are 5 authors on this paper, 4 are in Switzerland and the other is Swiss from Bath university, but these are "UK" experts. Apparently.