Secret to a Successful Marriage
Can love be measured by any formula? We still don’t know the answer to it, but mathematicians seem to have found a formula for lasting marriages! So, after all it may not be just chemistry that makes couples stick together.
According to a new research on about a thousand Swiss couples, men who marry women who are at least 5 or more years younger to them and better educated have a higher chance of success in marriage. The “linear assignment model” used by business people to match the right tasks to the right workers was applied by these mathematicians to “optimise spousal allocation”.
However, a lot of other factors are also considered for successful marriage, which includes divorce history and the personality of the individuals. Both history and wisdom show that men are not ready to get married before 30. Well, that’s even good news for older singles and over-50s singles, who never got married or went through a divorce. Finding a woman who is younger and better educated than them may actually turn the tables in their favour.
In fact, it has been an age old tradition for men to choose younger women as men had the traditional role of providing for their families. And they also tend to choose women who are less educated so as not to feel threatened. The mathematicians and many parts of society, will no doubt argue, that it is high time men changed their attitude towards women to have a long lasting and happy married life.
