The One Thing Men Want Most In Women --Research

Forget what you've heard before about what men want. It's not high
heels, and it's not lingerie. Men, above all else, want a woman who's
smart.

According to a new study cited by The Times of India, men look for
brains more than anything else when searching for a partner. Since the
1990s, men are happier in marriages where they tie the knot with a
woman who has equal or higher intelligence than they do, according to
the study.

"This, the study confirmed, was a reversal of the 50s, when Marilyn
Monroe starred in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and when a marriage was
most likely to last when a husband was better educated than his wife
(and could presumably flatter him by saying that he knew best)," The
Times of India reported.

The study also found marriages where the partners have a similar level
of education have a higher chance of success. This is a newer trend,
since marriages until the 1980s were 34 percent more likely to end in
divorce when the wife had more education than the men, The Times of
India reported.

"Couples marrying in the early '90s were among the first for whom
wives' educational advantage was no longer associated with a higher
risk of divorce. Couples with the same education levels are now less
likely to divorce," the researchers said, according to The
Independent.

Part of this may be because people want someone who will make them
smarter, since marriages tend to make both partners more intelligent.
According to a study from Macquarie University in Australia, married
couples create an interpersonal connection that allows them both to
learn from each other. This is why couples can often finish each
other's sentences or fill in memory gaps for each other, the study
said.
--pubvirtrue.com