make your wife happy: the new research
Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
oh my gosh! it’s so funny that i should run into this article/researc by a guy named w.bradford wilcox. the title is what’s love got to do with it? equity, equality, commitment and women’s marital quality. wilcox is a professor of sociology fromt he university of virginia.
the reason why i’m like “oh my gosh” is because i first learned about this research while watching the today show on NBC and now i’ve just run into it again on antoher person’s blog.
the show was doing a thing on relationships. i remember one of the things that they talked about was why some women always dated the “bad boy.” the reason has something to do with their father and their father not doing something as the daughter tried to take him away from her mom. i don’t know. what do i know. i did business.
anyways, i looked for the article since they just mentioned it a little on the show. it was interesting to read. here is what the blogger put on her? his? site:
A new research determined that women whose husbands bring home more than 68% of the bacon are the most content. Regardless of what married women say they believe about gender, even for egalitarian-minded ones, women are happier when their marriages are organized along more gendered lines. In another words, wife want their husband being a good provider — provided that he is also emotionally engaged and fair.
the likelyhood of a divorce can be determined by the woman’s marital quality. this marital quality is determined by how much emotional work a man does. emotional work meaning: any effort to express positive emotion to their wives, to be attentive to the dynamics of their relationship and the needs of their wives, or to set aside time for activities focused specifically on their relationship.
infact, this emotional work even trumps the woman’s need for equal house work at home!
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2/3 of divorces are initiated by women
PEOPLE:
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