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Do you believe couples where the woman is more attractive have a better chance of longevity and a quality relationship? I googled it and sure enough even Psychology Today says so.

Was out with some friends Saturday night and the guys were teasing me about dating the girl next door type...which I prefer. I just figured they wanted me to date someone they could flirt with rather than someone I find attractive, sweet, adoring and not someone who if she doesn't get her way will have a bunch of guys trying to flirt with her to make me jealous so she can get her way.

One of the wives chimed in and said one person in a relationship can't hold all the cards. I've never felt I held all the cards but based on what I read in various articles, if a woman is more attractive than her guy the relationship is more successful.
 
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I wouldn't base my life on what Psychology Today says.
 
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Do you believe couples where the woman is more attractive have a better chance of longevity and a quality relationship? I googled it and sure enough even Psychology Today says so.

Was out with some friends Saturday night and the guys were teasing me about dating the girl next door type...which I prefer. I just figured they wanted me to date someone they could flirt with rather than someone I find attractive, sweet, adoring and not someone who if she doesn't get her way will have a bunch of guys trying to flirt with her to make me jealous so she can get her way.

One of the wives chimed in and said one person in a relationship can't hold all the cards. I've never felt I held all the cards but based on what I read in various articles, if a woman is more attractive than her guy the relationship is more successful.
everyone brings something to the relationship.

if you are wealthy you could probably score an attractive woman, and she will stay with you regardless because you have what she wants and she has what you want.
 
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Nanette is offline Nanette Post #4  April 5,2010, 9:17am
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Do you believe couples where the woman is more attractive have a better chance of longevity and a quality relationship? I googled it and sure enough even Psychology Today says so.

Was out with some friends Saturday night and the guys were teasing me about dating the girl next door type...which I prefer. I just figured they wanted me to date someone they could flirt with rather than someone I find attractive, sweet, adoring and not someone who if she doesn't get her way will have a bunch of guys trying to flirt with her to make me jealous so she can get her way.
One of the wives chimed in and said one person in a relationship can't hold all the cards. I've never felt I held all the cards but based on what I read in various articles, if a woman is more attractive than her guy the relationship is more successful.
I've found it more difficult to find men less attractive than I am that will date me. I'm thinking of one from my past that I adored, but he was a dork. And he had nothing and a low paying job. I'm still convinced I could have had a happy life with him.

I don't think that very attractive women have any special "leverage" over less attractive men. It's the men that seem to think this. And if you are very attractive and you go for a less attractive man its thought that he needs to have money. This is often true:



Seriously, I wonder why guys cant just think that attractive women might actually want to be with goon-y guys without people thinking he must have money or the guy thinking less of her (which is also often the case)

Ive wanted to start a discussion on this subject but not quite sure how to phrase it so people get what I mean.
 
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One of the wives chimed in and said one person in a relationship can't hold all the cards. I've never felt I held all the cards but based on what I read in various articles, if a woman is more attractive than her guy the relationship is more successful.
That's the gist of it. No one would get into a relationship in which the other person 'holds all the cards'. If they did so.....they would be getting nothing out of the relationship. Each person always has to have something(s) the other values.
 
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Psychology is a soft science. It is based on interpretation and opinion rather than quantifiable facts. Believe what you want.
 
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It wasn't just PT that I read, there were several links to articles or surveys that state the same thing.

Interesting posts already. One of the couples from the other night was an early 60 guy who is number 3-4 at a huge well known corporation in Houston...we'll just leave it at that. Overweight, bald in the middle with a charismatic personality. He is dating a friend of mine who is 31, a stunning take you breath away woman...who has a 2, 4 and 10 year old. He was married twice before, two sets of kids and I really haven't talk to my friend much about it but if she really thinks the guy is going to marry her she is crazy. She and I are friends because she knows I have no interest in dating someone that every time she walks out of the house she gets hit on.

You are right Nanette. Men and women too for that matter, think a couple like I mentioned above are together because he has money and she is breathtakingly beautiful. Would they be together if he was a day laborer? No. Even the articles I read said a man wants a woman who is more attractive than himself and a woman wants a man who has wealth or status. I am sure that is not 100% true.
 
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I've found it more difficult to find men less attractive than I am that will date me. I'm thinking of one from my past that I adored, but he was a dork. And he had nothing and a low paying job. I'm still convinced I could have had a happy life with him.

I don't think that very attractive women have any special "leverage" over less attractive men. It's the men that seem to think this. And if you are very attractive and you go for a less attractive man its thought that he needs to have money. This is often true:



Seriously, I wonder why guys cant just think that attractive women might actually want to be with goon-y guys without people thinking he must have money or the guy thinking less of her (which is also often the case)

Ive wanted to start a discussion on this subject but not quite sure how to phrase it so people get what I mean.
I am not up on who's who. Is the couple depicted anyone of significance or just a fat guy with his hand on a hot girls butt?
 
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I am not up on who's who. Is the couple depicted anyone of significance or just a fat guy with his hand on a hot girls butt?
Sorry. This is the guy. His wife is a model.

Flavio Briatore (born 12 April 1950) is an Italian businessman. He was manager or principal of two Formula One racing teams, most recently with Renault F1 . He was also part-owner and chairman of London's Queens Park Rangers F.C. from 2007 to 2010.
 
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his name is flavio briatore
 
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