According to UK experts from Bath University the secret to a happy marriage for men is choosing a wife who is smarter and at least five years younger than you. They claim that they are more likely to go the distance, particularly if neither has been divorced in the past. The research involved studying interviews of more than 1,500 couples who were married or in a serious relationship then 5 years later they followed up 1,000 of the couples to see which had lasted
They found that couples where the woman was younger were three times more likely to go the distance and that couples where only one of them had been divorced before were the least stable. Having said this society has started seeing factors such as age as less important when choosing a partner. In the past it was thought that the man had to be older in order to provide for his family. So basically it would seem that the facts havent really changed just the reasoning that accompanies them.