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How husbands and wives try to find a balance between beauty and status – new research

  • Written by: Joanna Syrda, Assistant Professor in Business Economics, University of Bath
How husbands and wives try to find a balance between beauty and status – new researchOff to the gym.Kyryk Ivan/Shutterstock

The idea of a “trophy” wife or husband may not sound like a very romantic basis for marriage. It implies one half of a couple brings physical attractiveness to a relationship, while the other half brings status and money.

But the lack of romance in this idea does not mean that attractiveness and...

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