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Dating a women who is hotter than you = FAIL!
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04-03-2011 1:37pm#1When you’re in love with a beautiful woman, you really do have to watch your friends.
Just like Dr Hook warned in their 1979 hit, research has revealed that relationships in which the woman is more attractive than the man may be doomed to failure.
However, having a handsome husband or boyfriend is no barrier to the couple’s success, according to the study.
The phenomenon was spotted by British researchers who were studying whether it is true that we tend to pair up with those who are similarly attractive to ourselves.
Their findings could help explain why Angelina Jolie’s marriages to actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton barely lasted three years a piece.
In contrast, her relationship with Brad Pitt, one of the world’s most handsome celebrities, has already lasted six years, suggesting she has found her match.
The Stirling, Chester and Liverpool university researchers took photos of the men and women in more than 100 couples. Some had been together for just a few months, others for several years. The individual men and women were then rated on their looks.
The analysis revealed having an attractive husband or boyfriend was no barrier to a relationship succeeding. But, if it was the woman who was the one blessed with good looks, the relationships tended to last only a matter of months, the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin reports.
Researcher Rob Burriss said: ‘This would indicate it is the woman who is in control of whether the relationship continues.
Beautiful women may realise they can afford to pick and choose, he suggests. They may also have the confidence to leave behind relationships that have run their course.
‘Attractive women might generally prefer short-term relationships. They’re better placed to move on.’
It is also possible the relationships end due to jealous behaviour from the woman’s less photogenic partner.
Conversely, the less attractive women ‘may have to make do with what they have, hence the longer relationships’, he said.
Dr Burriss said the idea echoes the Dr Hook song When You’re In Love With A Beautiful Woman. The lyrics advise a man who is outshone by his woman to ‘watch your friends’ as ‘everybody wants her, everybody loves her, everybody wants to take your baby home’.
The study also found we tend to pair up with people whose facial features have a similar level of symmetry – a sign of beauty – to our own.
Dr Burriss said: ‘Are all men trying to go out with Anne Hathaway or Angelina Jolie, or do you really want to be with someone at the same level of attractiveness as yourself? These findings suggest our ideal partner is one on our own kind of level.’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1361658/Downside-dating-beauty-If-womans-attractive-man-relationship-doomed.html
i know it is the daily fail but are they onto something here? maybe they are.
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Aren't you dipping your dick in steroids thoughJoey the lips wrote: »My women is hotter than me. Does not seem to bother her that i say this all the time though....
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Kimono-Girl wrote: »well people do say you are only as hot as the girl you are ****ing!
Even if you're a girl?0 -
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yeah but they won't dump you so you will be stuck with them according to the article!Micky Dolenz wrote: »Ugly birds are easier to score though. 0 -
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Kimono-Girl wrote: »yeah but they won't dump you so you will be stuck with them according to the article!
heh rookie mistake.
It's not me, it's you fugly. Don't let the door hit your massive arse on the way out.0 -
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Kimono-Girl wrote: »[/COLOR][/LEFT]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1361658/Downside-dating-beauty-If-womans-attractive-man-relationship-doomed.html
i know it is the daily fail but are they onto something here? maybe they are.
Bah. Johnny Lee Miller is a dirty roide!0 -
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My OH is way better looking then me and I'm with her years. She isn't Irish though, maybe that could be something to do with it (I'm not in the slightest bit rich either)
Also lots of girls go for personality and....eh....financial security over looks so I really doubt that it's a fail to date a hotter woman at all, it's probably quite common actually.
Now a woman dating a man that is way hotter then her...............that's an entirely different story and would make a much better and more controversial thread
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My OH is way better looking then me and I'm with her years. She isn't Irish though, maybe that could be something to do with it (I'm not in the slightest bit rich either)
Also lots of girls go for personality and....eh....financial security over looks so I really doubt that it's a fail to date a hotter woman at all, it's probably quite common actually.
Now a woman dating a man that is way hotter then her...............that's an entirely different story and would make a much better and more controversial thread
i'd be inclined to agree with you personally speaking, i went for personality, his good looks were a bonus!
but to me personality is key in a relationship, you do need to both be compatible too imo
but its friday afternoon and right this minute i am all about the looks...:p0 -
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Kimono-Girl wrote: »i'd be inclined to agree with you personally speaking, i went for personality, his good looks were a bonus!
but to me personality is key in a relationship, you do need to both be compatible too imo
but its friday afternoon and right this minute i am all about the looks...:p
Yeah I'd total agree, personality is vital in any relationship, for example I know some stunners that are about as interesting as cat litter so that would put me off them right from the get go.
Btw I find it interesting the way that women can be really choosy when they are in the teens and 20's but the roles reverse once men hit their 30's and 40's. So in theory it should be harder for a guy in his twenties dating a girl in her twenties then a guy in his thirties dating a girl in her thirties.........or is that me just being older and vainer? 0 -
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Kimono-Girl wrote: »OMG that's like a major FAIL, but you're Hot so its ok!
better?:pac: i even got a 'like' in there.
The Beverly Hills 90210 is strong in this one.0 -
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I would most definitely agree with the findings of this research. When you see a hot girl with an ugly bloke, it's almost as if you're thinking - how dare he! You basically make it your mission to win her. To free her from her beastly captor
Such relationships can never last unless the male is stinking rich, in which case he might get more mileage out of it.
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