{"id":1134,"date":"2017-12-19T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tosayiloveyou.com\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2017-12-23T07:25:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T07:25:37","slug":"short-guys-make-better-boyfriends-husbands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tosayiloveyou.com\/?p=1134","title":{"rendered":"Do Short Guys Make Better Boyfriends and Husbands?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have lots of friends who refuse to date men who are shorter than them (and we are pinging this story to them the moment we have published it). Whether you are an awkward 5\u2032 12\u2033 searching for a guy who is over 6 feet, or a 5\u2032 5\u2033 lady speculating if she should consider a guy who she can\u2019t wear heels next to, the taller girl shorter guy enigma is something most of us would never get over. In fact,\u00a068.8 percent of females\u00a0restrict their online dating\u00a0searches to guys who are taller than them.<\/p>\n

The divorce rate of short men is 32% lower than men of average and tall heights.<\/p>\n

Well, girls, science has decided to take dispute with our\u00a0bias. In\u00a0a primary study distributed in\u00a0The New Republic,\u00a0Dalton Conley, a sociologist at NYU, and Samantha Seitzman, a Ph.D. candidate, indicate that short men might<\/u> make better boyfriends and husbands. Shorter guys are unlikely to marry (their marriage rate is 19% lower than guys of average height). But, when they do get married, their divorce rates are 31% lower than that of average height and tall guys. Why? Here\u2019s the researchers\u2019 analysis, established from their data:<\/p>\n

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  1. Short men do more housework, doing close to 8 and a half hours of cleaning per week, 1 hour more than tall men.<\/li>\n
  2. Short men tend to earn more money than their spouses.\u00a079% are the breadwinners in their relationship, versus 68% for average men and 71% for tall men.<\/li>\n
  3. Short men prefer older women.\u00a0In the study, 10% of men had dated a woman who was more than 3 years older than them, and most of them were from the short cohort.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The researchers used data from the\u00a0Panel Study of Income Crescendos\u2014a University of Michigan project that\u2019s been collecting demographic data on 7,000 families for nearly 55 years\u2014to look at how a man\u2019s height influences different areas of his relationship after the original dating period.\u00a0They cataloged the guys into three groups: \u201cShort\u201d guys were described as 5\u20195\u201d or less in 1986, 5\u20198\u201d or below in 2009; \u201ctall\u201d guys were at least 6\u20192\u201d in 1986 and 6\u20193\u201d in 2009.<\/p>\n

    The point of the story: Listen to science and give short guys a chance too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    We have lots of friends who refuse to date men who are shorter than them (and we are pinging this story to them the moment we have published it). Whether you are an awkward 5\u2032 12\u2033 searching for a guy who is over 6 feet, or a 5\u2032 5\u2033 lady speculating if she should consider …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,140],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[359,362,352,354,98,357,62,355,12,363,95,358,351,348,361,356,353,350,349,360],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dating-advice","category-tie-life-style"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tosayiloveyou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tosayiloveyou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tosayiloveyou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tosayiloveyou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tosayiloveyou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tosayiloveyou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/www.tosayiloveyou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tosayiloveyou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tosayiloveyou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tosayiloveyou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tosayiloveyou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tosayiloveyou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}