Married men be warned – being happier than your wife could end in divorce

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/7746 ... vorce.html

Using data from tens of thousands of relationships in three different countries, they discovered that the bigger the difference in the happiness of husbands and wives the greater the risk of a break-up.
Crucially, this effect was seen only when the husband was feeling better about life than his wife.
And in those cases, it was more likely that the unhappy wife would start divorce proceedings.
The finding was made after experts looked at previous economic and "lifestyle satisfaction" studies of people living in Britain, Germany and Australia.
The happiness gap widened when wives were lumbered with most of the housework, if they had different social backgrounds to their husbands, or if they had higher than average incomes.

Married men be warned – being happier than your wife could end in divorce

Maybe men handle unhappiness better than women.

Maybe women believe the the grass is greener attitude?

Everyone has that to a degree. However I suspect the statistics would show that a lot of men will stay in a relationship they are not particularly happy in because men are inherently more lazy in their relationships. Whereas women are less likely to put up with a relationship they're not happy in. Of course, the UK's woefully unbalanced divorce legislation may also have something to do with that...