Too smart to Marry

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I cannot suffer an idiot - of either gender. The guys I've been with have for the most part been very intelligent, with the exception of one - he had to go. And of the women, they were also all intelligent except for one who was so dim I had to abandon even normal conversation with her. She's probably dead now from using the blow dryer in the shower or better yet "while sleeping".

ok, coupla points, not just about the gratuitous stereotyping.

Most women that I've encountered who say they want smart intelligent men, usually want smart intelligent men.

That doesn't mean that it's the only thing we are looking for in a partner though, just like guys wouldn't sit around going "well, she looks like she hit the back end of a bus, she has no ambition in life, she's boring as f**k, but gosh! Just look at her SAT scores! *drool*".

A man who chooses to be unemployed, claim benefits and do nothing with his life isn't particularily smart in my books, sorry. He may be able to ace an IQ test, but if he does nothing else, then he's as much a dumbass as anyone else who makes the same choice (note, key word is 'choice').

I think there could be some truth to that study. The guys chances for marriage probably increased with IQ because guys with a higher IQ are generally more likely to be richer & more successful. The smarter guys are more likely to go to medical/law school ect than people with lower IQs. The rezone women with lower IQs are more likely to be married could be cuz odf the social standard of men having to be richer/more successful than women. I'm a guy with very low intelligence in some ways & like girls who seem mentally ret*d. I have an extremely stupid sense of humor. Am I the only one who lathed at the fart I just cut Smarter people tend to find me crude, rude, vulgar, immature, & offensive. Stupider people make me lath more

Guys with higher IQs are likely to be richer? Pffft... the majority of rich people inherit their wealth, but I'm trying not to go off on a political tangent.

God forbid that a smart man would want a woman that could keep up and contribute to the conversation. :/

Yeah - any couple I know who have money didn't have it when they met. More often than not they married at the beginning of their careers or right out of college and then both earned money. The guys were all poor or regular low guy on the totem pole when they met their future wives. I don't know any women who have gotten married for money or any couples where the man is obviously more intelligent than the woman. In my own situation I've always been the breadwinner.

I have however known some money poor people who were very intelligent, some of them brilliant even - all you have to do is go to a university to find them.

Even if the majority of rich people inherit their wealth, there may still be a weak correlation. Note I said correlation rather than claiming that doing well on an IQ test was a cause for being rich.

Exactly. Just look at Lyndsey Lohan.

Haha, oh yes. That's why I got dumped in the first place, remember?

Seriously though, I wouldn't get involved in that again He is a bit less shallow I think, but not for me...I'm not a fan of dating exes anyway.

I think the problem is a guy might think a smarter woman would do the following:

1) argue more
2) try to run his life with more justification (i.e. she is so smart)
3) be deceitful and good at it
4) argue more effectively against him