Across the nation, more women are attending college than men, and according to a CNBC article and research from the Institute of Family Studies, 2015 marked the first time in history that wives were better
educated than their husbands.
In looking around at our friends, all of them relatively long - term marriages, all of the wives are more
educated than their husbands.
One study conducted in 2012 in Hong Kong looked at the marital and sexual satisfaction of more than a thousand married men and women and found that a woman is 40 percent less likely to be satisfied with her marriage if she is better
educated than her husband, compared to when they are equally educated.
Researchers at the Institute of Behavioral Sciences in Hungary studied couples who stayed together long - term and found that couples whose wives were younger and less
educated than their husbands lasted longer than other couples did.
Not exact matches
We have been married for more
than half a lifetime and have two well
educated adult children with spouses, and grandchildren, all of whom have suffered along with both my
husband and me.
You and your
husband are so out of your league here trying to debate people much older, wiser, and better
educated than you are.
I'm
educated, raised 4 children, retired with my
husband who is older
than me, been married 27 years, he has medical problems, and I have needs
In part, the attraction was intellectual: At the time, an
educated woman was more likely to find mental satisfaction in her
husband than through her own career.
I love that we live an era where women are
educated, independent, and can wait to marry until they find a man they love rather
than needing to find a
husband to support them.