Getting married is one of the biggest decisions you can make in life. It’s hard to know if the person you’re happy with now will be the person you’re happy with many years down the road. This is probably why so many marriages end in divorce—people change. Despite this difficulty, we all strive to find our “perfect match,” someone we can at least see ourselves with in the future.

One question is what characteristics we use to judge our potential life partner. Are they funny? Attractive? … Rich? It turns out that one great measure is intelligence, not only because smarts are sexy in their own way, but because a partner with brains can lengthen our own life. Askmen has more:

Men with smart wives live a longer, happier lives and are less likely to suffer from Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, mental health experts claim.

Bright ladies keep their partners intellectually stimulated, which helps prevent symptoms of the condition such as memory loss.

“The thing a boy is never told he needs to do if he wants to live a longer life — but what he should do — is marry an intelligent woman,” University of Aberdeen professor Lawrence Whalley said at a conference on dementia  in in Oxford England last week.

Perhaps we should readjust what we look for in a partner—of course, if you find someone that’s both smart and incredibly attractive, never let go. Never. Check out the full post for more details.

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