And according to the Pew Research Center, a
“steady job” is the number one thing that women are looking for in a husband.
Look, I definitely understand that working hard and being able to make a living are signs of a responsible individual, but isn’t marriage supposed to be about much more than dollar signs?
Of course women can definitely accuse men of being shallow as well. It is often said that men are overly concerned with youth and looks, and one
very revealing scientific study appears to support that hypothesis. The study found that on average 20-year-old women were most attracted to 23-year-old men and 50-year-old women were most attracted to 46-year-old men. But with men the results were dramatically different. On average, 20-year-old men were most attracted to 20-year-old women and 50-year-old men were most attracted to 22-year-old women.
Could it be possible that all of the romantic ideals that we fill our heads with as young people are not actually based in reality?
I don’t know about you, but I prefer to believe in love and romance. But just like the authors of the first study I discussed above, there are many out there that see the search for a marriage partner as a “market” where everyone has different “values” based on certain characteristics.