According to Just A Guy Thing and a recent Swedish study, men who marry educated women will actually live longer. This is great advice to men who don’t want to go to college and get a higher education – little do they know that they could actually be saving their own lives! The education factor is more important for his wife that himself!

I mean, when you really look at this logic, it makes total sense. Researchers Robert Erikson and Jenny Torssander of Stockholm’s Swedish Institute for Social Research found that women take a lead role in the home. (We’ll that’s a no-brainer, ain’t it, Women!) So according to that logic, a women who is more educated can lead their family and very happy (and lucky) husband to making better and healthier choices.

The study looked at 1990 census data of more than 1.5 million men and women, ages 30 to 59, along with cause of death data for the period 1991–2003. They found that men who live with a women with no high school diploma are 1.25 times more likely to die than men living with a college graduate. The study was published in the October Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

So men, make sure that you ask for a diploma before you decide to date… this could save your life!