Half of men would ditch partner who gained weight

AMERICAN men are more concerned with their partner’s body type than women but they also seem to value family more highly, according to a new survey.

Nearly half of men questioned in the poll of 70,000 people said they would ditch a partner who gained weight, compared to only 20% of women.

Two-third of men also said they had fantasised about their partner’s friends, while only one-third of women had done so.

“Other romantic behaviours have proven to be timeless ones: chivalry isn’t dead, size matters, and women forgive while men forget,” said James Bassil, editor-in-chief of AskMen, which conducted the poll.

While only 18% of women said they would want their mate to be better endowed, more than 51% of men said they wished they themselves were.

But the survey also found 39% of men chose family as their top choice of the ultimate status symbol. By contrast, 43% of women selected a beautiful home, compared to only 6.5% of men. Men were more likely to lie about the number of sex partners they had had (50%) than women (35%).

One thing both sexes agreed on was an as-yet undeveloped male birth control pill, an idea that proved popular all around.

But the sexes differed about paying for dates, at least in the early stages. More women, 38%, think each should pay their own way, versus 33% who think men should foot the bill.

Women are also far less comfortable with their mates keeping in touch with their ex. More than two-thirds of men are okay with their partner friending an ex on Facebook, as opposed to 38% of women.