«THERE SHOULD BE COURSE IN FIRST GRADE ON LOVE»

 Men are more concerned with their partner's body type than women but they also seem to value family more highly, according to a survey released recently.Nearly half of men questioned in the poll of 70,000 people said they would ditch a partner who gained weight, compared to only 20 per cent of women. Two-thirds of men also said they had fantasized about their partner's friends, while only one-third of women had done so."Even as men are getting more comfortable with meeting their girlfriends online and less anxious about who she's 'friending' there, other romantic behaviours have proven to be timeless ones: chivalry isn't dead, size matters, and women forgive while men forget," said James Bassil, editor-in-chief of AskMen, which conducted the poll jointly with Cosmopolitan.com. While only 18 per cent of women said they would want their mate to be better endowed, more than 51 per cent of men said they wished they themselves were.The survey also found 39 per cent of men chose family as their top choice of the ultimate status symbol. By contrast, 43 per cent of women selected a beautiful home, compared to only 6.5 per cent of men. One-quarter of women named a successful partner as a top status symbol.

-Reuters
July 31 2011