Well, do you sometimes get the feeling that your sweetheart's bros are more important than you? Then this study will surely interest you …
Bromance over Romance? Bro-Code over Love language? Watching football over a couple's evening? Ooo, or maybe the partner comes first for most men after all? A comprehensive study by the insurance company AXA examined this question, among other things. Ready for the unvarnished truth …?
More than 1,000 people interviewed
If we're being completely honest, we've all probably asked ourselves the (uncomfortable) question, who would your loved one prefer in an emergency: his best friend or us? But do we really want to know the answer to that …? The insurer AXA wanted – and has – for its representative partnership study More than 1,000 people asked what relevance they attribute love and relationship to other topics such as health, job and friendship.
Overall ranks partnership clearly on the list of the most important goods in life for both men and women in this AXA study behind the two values of health and trust: The latter have one for 57 and 58 percent respectivelyVERY high relevance in life, love only for 44 percent. But now it comes and gets really interesting: Although only 42 percent of those surveyed rated friendship as VERY relevant – 81 percent find friendship at least relevant. Partnership and relationship, on the other hand, appear to be at least important to only 73 percent of the study participants (in this comparison, health and trust were, by the way, 88 and 87 percent respectively).
In other words: Love is VERY IMPORTANT to more people, but friendship is IMPORTANT to more people. But these are just the results for men and women put together – the biggest surprise awaits us when we compare the answers given by men and women …
Men are less "bromantic" than women
Most would expect that women relationships are more important than men and friendship might be less important (for whatever reason – cliché). But no: according to the AXA survey, it is exactly the opposite! While Love is relevant for 71 percent of the women surveyed until is very relevant, they persisted the men a proud 74 percent for important to very important. Friendship on the other hand, at least they graded 76 percent of men as at least relevant for life – yes for women, 85 percent did so.
So so! It is true that more women and more men seem to care more about their friendships than their relationships. But based on this study, the probability would be higher than the other way round that your BFF is more important to you than your sweetheart his best friend – and that you are more important to him than him to you. Fortunately, it's all just theoretical and we can have everything: friendship, relationship and even both in one. And if we had to make a decision in reality, it would probably be assumed that the person who forces us to make this decision will lose out …