Man and Wife... not so different after all

I loved where in the reading they talked about different types of relationships. Those couples whose marriages were stable and who reported having extremely high marriage satisfaction were given a questionaire on the top reasons they thought their marriage was successful. I was really surprised by the results. They found that the top seven reasons given by the wife were identical to the top seven reasons given by the husband, and then from eight to twelve the reasons were similar but in a slightly different order. It was a surprise to me that men and women would rate characteristics of their marriage so similarly.