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.
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.
Not so long ago the husband had to be older than his wife in order to be able to support a family, but such criteria are not so relevant now women have been educated to be able to command good jobs, so I suggest the basis for a successful marriage should be tolerance.
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”.
[BBC]
So what??? Zambians have bigger problems than this crap!!
what if u already married ayba
The article is insightful and brings out ‘some’ truth. Tell yourself to work out your marriage period.
TWANHWA BADAALA
Nice you never go learn with some fresh blood
# 5 -Damn Key pad issues, i mean you can never go wrong with some fresh blood
thts not true imwe ba USA,so long u love each other nd u respect each othr thr is no problem,me am married to my wife who is 11 yrs older than me and she respects me bigtym,nd we hve stayed for abt 16 yrs together we jst lead a normal happily life.
# 7 Woods, boss muli bakalamba!!! your wife is 11 years older and you have been married for 16 years meaning you are about 46 years. Anyway not bad! hahahaha
Okay hope this works because in zed orAfrican society, this will never work ki mwila
#8 Municipality : Your calculation has left me dizzy
….young or old they are all the same, what determine a good wife is mileage, some young girls the mileage is 999999 and some older women its 666666, so it depends on what she has…
# 10, i applied some calculas, integration and differentiation!!! But tayashi balansa as such
Ok # 7 woods i guess you are 60 and your wife is 71.A good couple i should guess
# 13 yes am quite old big i retired from zambia railways in 2001,wer i worked as train driver,nd thts wre i met my wife who waz running the workshop canteen som tym back bige so this tym am jst into bigtym businees
Ifwe ni zeeee,so long mileage is within reach.Nangu shes older its oke boss!
nice one Woods! – congratulations for finding your bliss
What is the purpose for the woman’s reproductive organ? I mean the V.A.G.I.N.A!!! Only 2 and these are 1. For the purpose of the P.E.N.I.S insertion and 2.As a birth canal. Nothing more than that. So whatever the case, nothing will change this science. Whatever the age, happiness will only come only if there is love making in our homes
European Journal of Operational Research with this kind of publication???? kwena te fisela ifi?Ba LT please can you provide details of the article. I would like ve a luuku.Â
As long as u love each other,i think there is no problem.What really determine is the love that u have 4 each other.
its the ziznam that matters s.t.u.p.i.d!
It appears this writer is at it again. Here old women are marrying off young men and the relationships are lasting longer. I have also seem european women marrying young black men in some cases 15yrs younger Iam certain this is a result of stamina etc. So what is the chap up to. Eveer heard of sugar dadies. These days age does not matter some go into it for presitage or material things.
….”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”…get the f^#& outta here man. Age has nothing to do with it. True LOVE always and always will sustain any relationship regardless of the fact.
It is ball and socket kind of arrangement kabili no wonder these couples remain happy for a long time,even if she is old or he is old as long as ichaika nizi, and there is no time to think about age til wasiliza
marriage is about LOVE age does not really matter unless otherwise!!
thanx my freind # 16,hav a nice day i apreciate big tym.
Woods >>> The late Mazoka was your boss?
Elderly women are good and corrput.They know what a young man wants.Believe me,I was there.No tripping like some young flip-flops.But they are jealosy especially when they hear taht you are cheating on them to a young one.
Nkani yaku vipinda iyi manje
Guys mwansekesha with your comments. Ati age doesnt matter as long as ichaika nziii!!! Ikasiliza ndiye poziba age!! Hahahaha..
I heard about this research findings on the radio and couldnt help but laugh. My experience is that as long as she mixes concrete properly, i can NEVER develop ideas to divorce. If it’s those who just sleep and demandful, even a month is along time to be with them. They will definately GO!!
In Zambia, we dont normally divorce and we dont normally marry older women. However, for the sake of the few, TOLERANCE is the right word for a successful marriage. She maybe educated and all, but she needs to live within your tolerance or else …..
therez a lot of weird intellectually challenged people out there ,evident in some of your comments