Advice to Husbands: if you want peace, let your wife have her way
Posted by Mr. Thoughtful on March 10, 2008
An interesting new study has been performed by researchers at Iowa State University. An important finding was the key to marital happiness was to let the wife her way.
A team of researchers from Iowa State University studied 72 couples and found that the wife’s view on how to solve problems within the marriage or the home took precedence over the husband’s opinion and he was happy to accept that.
“The women were communicating more powerful messages and men were responding to those messages by agreeing or giving in,” Associate Professor of Psychology David Vogel, one of the leaders of the study, said in a statement.
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“The study at least suggests that the marriage is a place where women can exert some power,” said Vogel.”
I think most husbands could have intuitively said the same thing, but it’s interesting to see the anecdotal evidence confirmed by more scientific evidence.
This should serve as a warning and a guide to newlyweds.
March 10, 2008 at 9:36 pm
This doesn’t surprise me at all. As you’ve posted previously, even in an equal marriage women tend to have more power, because they become a monopoly as the sole sex provider (and there is NO QUESTION that, generally speaking, men want sex more than women). Additionally, men have so much stress in their lives outside the home that, for the most part, they really don’t care how things are being taken care of inside the home, as long as they’re being taken care of.
I know when I had a live-in girlfriend, I didn’t give a shit where we put the furniture or how the dishes were put away. She ran that whole apartment. I just wanted sex and companionship when I needed it.