The Secret of a Successful Marriage: Trophy Wife!

Researchers have finally unlocked the secret of a happy marriage: trophy wife!

No, seriously. The study found that marrying smarter and younger women results in ~~less~~ fewer divorces and greater marriage bliss:

The researchers studied interviews of more than 1,500 couples who were married or in a serious relationship. Five years later, they followed up 1,000 of the couples to see which had lasted.
They found that if the wife was five or more years older than her husband, they were more than three times as likely to divorce than if they were the same age.
If the age gap is reversed, and the man is older than the woman, the odds of marital bliss are higher.

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To be happily married after 5 years is really not enough of a test. I'd be curious to hear what the women have to say about these men when they've had a chance to become older and "wiser." I'd also be curious to hear what the men think about their younger wives once they start to show the effects of age and if this sends them on a quest to find an even younger trophy wife.