Want a Happy Marriage? Be Thinner Than Your Husband

Ladies, are you ready to want to punch science in the face? Or at least, one particular study?

Research out of the University of Tennessee has recently deduced that heterosexual women who have a smaller body mass index than their male partner tend to have happier marriages. Husbands also report being happier when their wives are skinner than they are.

"On average, the men in the study were overweight, while the women were normal weight, though there was a wide range of variation among individuals," the study of 165 newlywed couples under the age of 35 concluded. "The results revealed that when wives have lower BMIs than their husbands, husbands are more likely to be satisfied at the beginning of the marriage and stay that way. Wives with lower BMIs than their husbands became more satisfied with time."

Researchers decided this was probably due to the fact that appearance is more important to men, i.e women don't always care if their husband has a pudgy stomach - but reverse that and we've got trouble.

While leaders of the study are quick to point out that size doesn't always dictate happiness in a couple, it makes unfortunate sense that this is the case. Basically, this study just confirmed what we already know: society has programmed most men to file "skinniness" in their Important Attributes For A Partner file, but has suspiciously left that very description out of many of the Important Attribute files of women.