In today’s column, "The Happiest Housewives," John Tierney writes about a recent study of 5,000 married couples. Researchers found that women were most happy with husbands who were affectionate and understanding. After that, women were made most happy by primary bread winner husbands and tidy husbands.

(I know. Quite a shocker.)

"Women today expect more help around the home and more emotional engagement from their husbands," Wilcox says. "But they still want their husbands to be providers who give them financial security and freedom."

The blogosphere is going to go crazy with this one. Heh. Looking forward to it. Totally late getting the kids to school, but let me just add two points.

– Making a lot of money doesn’t buy you out of picking up your socks.
– Women may be reporting that they prefer traditional relationships, but only because the two high earning model is too difficult to maintain — packed weekends of chores, managing babysitters and cleaners, stress. What we need are new nontraditional relationships.

UPDATE: Funny response by Amanda.  Women are so weird, seriously. Who knew that having more money coming into the home would make women feel more secure? By god, next thing you know you’ll be telling me that women enjoy naps and trash TV, like honest-to-god human beings.