Mick Jagger says he can't get no satisfaction, Bono still hasn't found whathe's looking for, and Steve Winwood wants someone to bring him a higher love. They clearly aren't your average guys.
According to a University of Michigan study, most men in relationships are too easy to please. And they get even mellower with age.
The Michigan researchers interviewed--separately--husbands and wives who had worked through decades of marital war and peace. The subjects were asked how much support--respect, reassurance, confiding--they gave to or got from their spouse. Then the volunteers responded to questions like, "How satisfied are you with your sex life? With your marriage?"
A husband's sense of satisfaction with his marriage was unrelated to how he judged the quality of his interactions with his wife, reports University of Michigan psychologist Linda Acitelli, Ph.D. Conversely, a woman's evaluation of both her individual happiness and her relationship satisfaction was closely tied to her perception of marital support.
In other words, she's happy if she's in a supportive, intimate union; he's fine with or without the pillow talk. The gender gap was so dramatic that Acitelli concludes "it's the status of being married that's the important thing for men."
