Theory: A man is happier in marriage if his wife is better looking than him

According to some lab coat experiment at the University of Tennessee on attractiveness and marital bliss:

"Men who married attractive women were happy to bask in the glory of their partner's beauty. Men who were more attractive than their partner demonstrated a tendency to offer less emotional and practical support to their wives...Attractive men have available to them more short-term mating opportunities. This may make them less satisfied and less committed to the marital relationship."

So, if I got this correct in simple mathematical terms:

• Hot Wife + Average Joe = Happy Marriage

• Average Jane + Hot Husband = Unhappy Cheating Bastard (because he can get hot chicks)

This story stood out to me because it relates to the back in skinny jeans fantasy, "When I'm thin, men will love me, adore me, and never leave me." So, scientifically these lab coats are thus proving that fantasy to be true on some level. It also speaks to the notion that men are happier in marriage when they have the trophy wife, so following this logic it explains why so many wives will spend tons of money to stay thin and young so they can keep their husbands.

But is that really a marriage but on solid ground? I think not, and that is what this study is missing, data on long term marital bliss because after awhile it doesn't matter who's better looking than whom. At the end of the day, you are two humans trying to make a marriage work over the years. Being a team is what matters.

I have had guy friends who had the trophy wife or girlfriend and ended up leaving more because the woman became way to high maintenance and was not supportive of him or their relationship, and same thing where the woman had a trophy guy. According to the book, The Millionaire Mind by Thomas J. Stanley, millionaire men who married women based more on the content of her character stayed married to that woman for an average of 30 years or more (basically a lifetime) and the key qualities of their wife were: honest, responsible, loving, intelligent, and supportive. Millionaire men who married women based more on her looks and image tended to have a higher rate of divorce and more stress in their lives due to marital issues.

At the end of the day, you know you have a keeper when you come home after having a rotten failure of a day, and your sweetie sees this, takes you in their arms and says to you, "Everything is going to be okay. You're going to be okay. You're wonderful in my eyes, and I love you."