SCIENCE: Study: Men With Attractive Wives More Satisfied In Marriage. “A study of more than 450 newlywed couples over the course of four years found that men with physically attractive wives remained much more satisfied in their marriage than men who did not. However, the attractiveness of a woman’s husband played no part in the satisfaction that women felt from their marriage.” But more attractive women were also happier with their marriages: “Men were found to be more ‘sensitive’ to women’s attractiveness, and lead researcher James McNulty of the University of Tennessee suggested that women tended to mirror the level of support they were receiving from their husbands.”