By Kelsey Williams, SFGate.com
Ladies, if you’re down on your marriage, a new study suggests a diet and a treadmill could be just the ticket.
In the sitcom, “The King of Queens” Kevin James is noticeably larger than his on-screen wife played by Leah Remini. Should be a happy couple, according to this study. Photo: CBS
A study out of the University of Tennessee Knoxville suggests that the secret to marital bliss may just be a skinnier wife.
WRCB TV in Chattanooga, Tenn., reports:
A study by University of Tennessee, Knoxville, doctoral candidate Andrea Meltzer and psychology Associate Professor James McNulty shows married couples are happier when wives are thinner than their husbands.
Over the course of four years, Meltzer and McNulty followed 169 newlywed couples, tracking each partner’s height and weight and having each participant privately fill out marriage satisfaction surveys every six months.
The findings, after controlling for depression, income and education factors, showed that both men and women were more satisfied in their marriages if the wife had a lower body mass index (BMI) than her husband.
“We believe that the discrepancies between partners’ BMIs affected women only through their effects on men, which takes time to emerge,” Meltzer said. “In other words, we believe that the wives are happy because their husbands are happy.”
However, an essential clarification that the researchers were keen to highlight is that the key to happiness in marriage is not a supermodel skinny wife. Size 0 or size 16 was not the issue.
“Our study does not show that women have to be ‘thin’ in absolute terms,” Meltzer said. “Rather, it shows that women of any size can be happy as long as they are with the right partner. It’s relative weight that matters, not absolute weight.”
So, large women can be happy too, but with larger men.
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The viewpoint taken in the observation of this study is interesting! Even more interestingly (?!) the article is written by a man. The assumption that the happiness of the marriage is due to the wife’s being thinner than her husband is automatic in the above article. I just wonder if the writer ever paused to wonder if the wives in these studies were thinner BECAUSE the marriage was happy and they felt fulfilled, rather than the other way around (the marriage was happy because they are thin..what?!!) Women know that when they feel good about themselves they care more about how they look, and if they have a man who makes them feel good about themselves they’re much more likely to not let themselves get overweight, and take much more pride in their looks. I think the womens’ being thin because they are in a relationship in which their spouse makes them feel interesting and desirable in the FIRST place, (and the thinness is a result of their feeling satisfied) is much more likely the case than the women’s thinness being the cause of the marriages’ success. Maybe these marriages are those that are rewarding to both partners and (therefore they scored high on the satisfaction level tests) and so the wives in these relationships aren’t gorging themselves on m&m’s while comforting themselves with Jersey Shore or whatever it is at night because they feel unattractive to their husbands. Maybe instead they’re slipping on something sexy and having fun with their husband because he makes them feel good. I cannot believe the writer of this article did not even pause to consider the possible sequence of events in such a study. This article is written from an incredibly shallow “male gaze” perspective.