Who's better looking? You or your H ?

[DrNick]

Daily mail article. Obviously puts all the women in the de rigeur naff dresses and shoes

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2544144/Does-husband-secretly-think-hes-better-looking-We-asked-three-couples-rate-partners-looks-Some-replies-make-steam-come-ears.html

I remember reading years ago that people of similar levels of attractiveness end up together. On obsevation I tend to agree with the theory.

Dh and I are both good looking, although the years of sleepless nights have had more of an impact on my looks as he slept right through them

Haha those first two couples are slightly deluded!

We are about equal. Dh has got better with age though!

I once went out with someone who I thought was ok looking, but he spent all his time telling me that he was slightly better looking than me. I was really young, and stayed with him for 3 longs years. Looking back though..... who the actual hell was he trying to kid! He was soooo short, greasy and toady looking! Thats 3 years I'll never get back!

Who the fuck writes these articles?

I doubt the couples said any of that stuff attributed to them. 'I had my pick of bikini clad beautiful girls'?? Made up shite.

Me I think.

Dp said to me the other day "our dd should be quite lucky really as your really good looking but a bit thick, and I'm not so good looking but quite clever so she should have best of both worlds"

I didn't know weather to take it as a compliment or an insult!!

We're both f*ing gorgeous, to be honest.

DH and he has no idea just how good looking he is, which makes him more attractive. -off to do something with hair and put make up on now....--

Strikethrough fail...... I'm quite witty in RL......

LJ

Pretty terrible article if you could bottle the self confidence of the first guy you'd be onto a winner....

I would say DH and I are probably equally attractive. When we first met I would have been slightly better looking, but he's aged very well, where I've put on a stone and look a bit more tired....

LR, too right - DailyFail crap
And I know that even without having looked

Nick is a deluded arrogant knob, high five to Vicky though

Exh - probably about the same, though maybe me at a push. He'd say me and thought I was too good for him
Exbf - me. He thought I was too good for him which I wasn't at all
Current crush - probably about the same though he'd say me and thinks I'm too good for him

Sensing a theme here? . I'm by no means a supermodel I just seem to attract -twats- men with self-esteem issues. Sigh.

I would say we are both equally attractive but in different ways.
Neither of us are model material but not fugly either. I think he is gorgeous. He is very fit and has the body to match where I have the slightly squishy body of a woman that's had 3 dc and eats too many crisps but I have my mothers skin which is making me age well.
He carries himself well too which adds to his hotness presence. He totally doesn't see it in himself but thinks I'm hot

I cannot believe the arrogance of that first man in the article. His wife is very pretty and he is definitely punching above his weight with her.

Wow. Those couples...wow. I was expecting Samantha I'm-so-beautiful-it-hurts Brick to crop up.

When Fliss said about how she often sees other women chatting up her OH and they look disappointed when they see her because they realise they can't compete I did actually think that's true of my relationship, not because I'm attractive (I fell out of the ugly tree from an almighty height - in fact women chat up my tall, handsome husband in front of me because I'm that ugly and invisible to them) but because the women trying to chat up my husband see how he is with me, and realise that our relationship is about far, far more than how we look and how poorly matched we are looks-wise. Irrespective of the fact that I'm fat, and ginger, and freckly, and spotty, he adores me and it's plain for the world to see in the way he treats me. And I kind of like that :)

Interesting, almost every response so far is either "me", we're equal" or "I think DH, but he thinks me" .

Would be interesting (but possibly cruel) to compare what people think about themselves against how others would rate them.

I'll join the "about equal" camp, it shifts as we both have good days and bad days!

Dp is better looking than me, and makes more effort.
The first guy in that article is a first class twat. If DP talked about me like that he could do one. She's gorgeous. He's clearly a smarmy git. Ugh. I think the last guy is the only one who comes over alright. The middle pair are ridiculous.

Aww, your relationship sounds lovely Pixie

There used to be a show on channel four where couples rated each against strangers and exs. It was june sarpong who hosted. Oh yes your face or mine. Thats what it was called. Great show. Cringeworthy sometimes though.

We both look at our best together :)

Christian and Fliss look creepily similar.

Me and my husband are both equally gorgeous. I think generally people end up with someone similarly attractive to themselves, but it's all fairly subjective isn't it?

Was there not a TV ad not that long ago (?Dove) in which they got people to comment on their own looks and then on each other's? And the friend/family member always found more to like about the other person than the person did about themselves?

I know the ad was all about flogging more cream or something, but it made a fair point IMO.

I'd say we are pretty much equal.

Definitely H. People always comment to me how young he looks, he is a bit younger than me but I feel like a cradle snatcher when so many people say it! I think they're thinking how on earth did I bag him

He is tall and slim, huge blue eyes, pouty lips, stubble, works out and is always well dressed.

I do feel quite insecure tbh when I meet his work colleagues who are also all young and gorgeous. And I've also seen women flirting with him in front of me

Ah well, I'll emerge like a butterfly from a chrysalis after these babies are all grown, and I spend more money on look after my looks more than he does so I should in theory age better.

FFS I did not get very far down that article as I was raging at bald, jowly Christian's comments and could not bear to read any further.

DH and I are greying nicely together, and I think DH has got even more handsome as he gets older, not so sure I could say the same about myself! We still fancy each other rotten, although I am winning both the "most facial hair" and the "largest gut" competition

the thing I want to talk about is the dresses.

Why do all women in DM articles wear those dresses? Why can they never wear skinnies and ankle boots?

Why do those dresses make me so cross?

It ages the women terribly, they also often stand in the DM pose with tummy tucked in (hold it! Hold it! there, we are done) and slightly turned towards camera.

It makes 40-odd year old women sen thoroughly middle aged and frumptastic...