Posted on 09/01/2006 6:00:41 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside
Womenn: Money more important than looks in a man
By Jennifer Hill Thu Aug 31, 9:44 PM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Women regard healthy finances as more important than good looks in a man, according to a survey on Friday.
Almost half (45 percent) said a healthy bank balance is more significant than physical attractiveness in a potential partner, according to National Savings & Investments' (NS&I) latest quarterly savings survey.
Just 22 percent of men, however, rate finances above looks in women.
A salary of almost 50,000 pounds a year is demonstrative of male financial success, according to women.
Men need to earn at least 49,247 pounds a year before women consider them successful and wealthy, the study found. And more than one in 10 women would only consider a partner to be successful if they are earning 100,000 pounds or more.
Men were found to have lower expectations, saying they would deem women earning 42,147 pounds to be successful and wealthy.
On the savings front, women expect their men to have an average of 24,281 pounds in savings -- compared to 20,335 pounds in reality -- while men are happy with savings of 15,143 pounds among women, much in line with an actual average of 14,167 pounds.
Dax Harkins, senior savings strategist at NS&I, said: "Finances form a very important part of relationship dynamics and this is reflected in the expectations people have, both in terms of salary and savings levels. Maybe people do believe they can buy happiness after all."
Despite marked differences in expectations, 64 percent of those questioned agree that financial security is important to the success of a relationship.
Kate Maycock, from Relate, said: "Feeling financially insecure will put some strains on a relationship.
"These latest figures bear out that two people are unlikely to exactly agree on what is a healthy nest-egg and what is a financial crisis.
"Accept that you will not change your partner's attitude to money, but that the two of you can come to an agreement on how you will manage your differences and plan your saving."
The research also found that regular savings are on the increase. Average monthly savings were 87.85 pounds in the three months to end-July, up 8 percent on the year.
This savings rate -- equal to 6.8 percent of average income -- is second only to a high of 89.11 pounds recorded in autumn last year.
Around 54 percent of the population put money away each month. They are saving 174.50 pounds a month -- a 10.3 percent increase on this time last year.
Rotflol!
crack? I thought he had his oxygen turned down to low again!
Hey that Ferengi did pretty good for himself, huh?
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Is that at Abu Ghraib? Why did someone put panties on that poor man's head?
Hahaha! An outrage!
But I say he has to have decent looks too. For me, it's an equal amount of both.
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Is that because you really are 9teen?
well you do have your sense of humor, which is always attractive!
Your lovely post about your marriage made me cry.
LOL!
That is so true!!!
I've honestly seen more of that than the reverse. My brother and his wife are the first up close and personal example of the husband actually supporting a stay at home wife.
Otherwise, 'round here, marriage is just a lot of extra work, responsibility, financial drain and aggrevation for the 'priviledge' of being called Mrs.
You deserve hot pokers in your eyes for even suggesting that .... how could any man have sex with a potato sack?
Dead Lord deliver us from the unintended visualizations of this evil satanic post.
Well thank you, but I didn't mean to make you cry.
I got lucky, blessed by God...who knows-- probably both, but she has truly been a blessing to me.
She straightened me out, got me on the right path and made my life fun and meaningful. Sometimes, I think she just wanted a guy who was a "little bit bad" and one that liked living on the edge.
Today, I had "Whatever Day" flowers delivered to her at her office. From the group Chicago, she does "Color My World". BTW...LOL That is our song and became such on our second date.
Yes, I am a romantic, I can't help it. I followed my grandfathers example. When I was a kid, I happened to find love letters he had written to my grandmother during WW II when he was out to sea on the battleship USS Pennsylvania.
Unlike me, the man was quit a poet and wordsmith, but I follow him in spirit. I could not help but feel his words and example...truly a wonderful man. He had been married and was still madly in love for over 60 years when he passed on. I wont live as long, but I hope to live as well.
Have a Great Day....
quit=quite...I hate it when I do that! ;>)
The fact is that the divorce is nothing more than the "cash out value" of the marriage.
Like bankrupcy, there is a means test (contrary to histrionics there has ALWAYS been a means test of one form or another). If you earn too much they put you in a long term vs a straight liquidation divorce.
If feminists were honest they would outlaw all alimony and rquire divocing relationships to be 100% concluded within a year. (Child support belongs to the children not the parents but that is another story.)
The reall problem there is the only people making divorce laws for adoption are divorce lawyers.
I think it is interesting that men DON't care if a woman has money.
You might want to consider looking beyond U.S. borders. As with cars, there are a lot of good foreign models out there! :)
With my luck I'd get a Yugo.
Preach it!
So all that time I spent at the gym, I should have been working a second job. It figures.
What you need is a sugar daddy Diamond rings and a brand new Caddy Little things to help a girl make through What you need are satin pillows Rivers flowin' down like willows What you need is me to love you
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