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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m more interested in women who marry “down”. I know three women who are college and grad school educated who married men with high school diplomas and blue collar jobs. This defies every metric of female mating patterns, but I’m curious if it’s an indication of a broader trend.[/quote]

It is a broader trend as women pursue graduate degrees now in higher numbers than men. And there are more women graduating college. I have a PhD my husband was inlaw enforcement. I did not marry "down". He has been incredibly supportive of my career, provided financial stability while I trained for years, is a great, involved dad, cooks and we have a beautiful home and beautiful, successful children (if I do say so myself 🙂). He's adorable too. Let's move beyond the stereotypes. Of course these pairings can work. If you accept each other and realize and value what your partner brings to the relationship. [/quote]
Okay, you don’t need to act so offended. It is a statement of fact that women generally marry men who are equally, or more educated than themselves. Absent this, women will place more value on their partner’s income, so if the man is less educated, he will tend to still make equal or more income than his wife. These are just statistics, not a value judgment. My interest is in women who marry “down” in both metrics (less educated and less-income generating husbands), because these are true anomalies but they appear to be part of a growing set as women become more successful. We have yet to see how these relationships will look over time.[/quote]

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