Snapshot · Huberman Lab
Matchmaking data from 4,500+ dates showed women prefer younger male dates just as men prefer younger female dates — contradicting what women say they want in surveys.
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Huberman complicates the income question by noting that where someone started financially matters as much as where they are now — and that high income often comes with low free time, which is its own relationship risk. Eastwick agrees, noting that objective income has very small direct effects on how partners feel about each other; what matters more is whether the couple has adequate resources to get by. He then addresses the historical finding that marriages were more fragile when wives out-earned husbands — and delivers a key data point: this stopped being true in the 1990s. Huberman describes observing multiple couples dissolve after a man's job loss even when other resources were available, and Eastwick reframes this as primarily a crisis of male identity rather than a female response to lost provisioning — a more nuanced and hopeful read of the data.
Matchmaking records from thousands of real dates show women, like men, prefer going on second dates with younger partners. They say the opposite in surveys. The data don't lie.
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