How to stay happy in a marriage -- the secret uncoded

February 03, 2014 15:45

A relationship expert has listed out some things help in making a marriage a happy one.

Relationship expert Ty Tashiro has said that the more traits that one picks above the average, the lower the statistical odds would be that they'll find a match.

He said that if there is a room of 100 men, and if one chooses mediocrity -- trifecta of average income, looks and height -- one will have, statistically, only 13 suitors, and when the criteria is increased to an attractive man at least 6-feet tall who makes 87,000 dollars, there is only one person left out of the 100.

Add another trait -- funny, kind, even a political affiliation -- it becomes statistically impossible to find him out of 100 men.

Tashiro, a professor at the Center for Addictions, Personality, and Emotion Research at the University of Maryland, said attractiveness should be kept off the table, as looks are not a predictor of sexual satisfaction, nor do they correlate to happier marriages.

He said that even money does not a happy marriage make -- at least over a certain point. Money makes a difference on the low end of the income scale, but there is "diminishing returns" on happiness in marriage above a financially stable 75,000 dollars-a-year.

Tashiro said that the best personality indicator for sustaining a loving relationship is agreeableness, the New York Post reported.

Agreeableness describes someone who is "courteous, flexible, trusting, good-natured, cooperative, forgiving, soft-hearted and tolerant."

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