Prettier Girls Don't Stay With Less Good-Looking Men For Long

If you have a good-looking wife, then you could be "basking in the admiration" of your friends. However, women who believe they look better than their husbands are less likely to be dedicated to their partners, and would like to get attention from other men, according to express.

Research by a team from Eastern Connecticut State University shows that women who rate themselves as good-looking are seeking other, nicer-looking partners.

Moreover, there also tends to be greater resistance to the man's "mate-guarding behavior" in order to prevent them from leaving for another man. For example, if a man tries to put his arm around his girlfriend in public, the women would just shrug him off, or just hang out with other men.

The study included probing 692 women in romantic relationships with men, responding to an online survey. The women answered questions about their own as well as their partners' attractiveness and give answers to questions about their relationships.

Professor Madeleine Fugere, who led the research, said: "We found that when women perceive themselves as more attractive than their mates they are less satisfied with their current relationships and tend to seek alternative (possibly more attractive) partners.

"Men - for evolutionary reasons such as making sure any offspring are their own - prefer their partners to stay faithful and thus may employ tactics to keep them faithful such as discouraging their partners from talking with other men.

"Women, especially more attractive women, may resist this mate guarding by hanging out with other men when their partners are not around or erasing phone messages from other men so their partners don't find them.

"We think that women are resisting this mate-guarding either to pursue a different partner (and break up with their original partner) or to keep the less attractive partner while also pursuing other partners."

However, "We didn't assess that in this research but some women might feel that any partner is better than no partner," said Prof Fugere. "Or women might not notice the difference in attractiveness until later in the relationship."

The researchers said in an article in "Personality and Individual Differences", that "The present research suggests that the more attractive female partner may not be satisfied with a mismatched relationship fully.

So what is the answer to this question? It is best to marry an ugly girl, if you want a faithful one!