Body Language Analysis No. 1916: Katie Holmes & Tom Cruise are getting a Divorce - What Body Language Metric could have Predicted this - When They Were Dating?

When it comes to dating and romance are you aware that you your significant other's height statistically plays a key roll in whether it will just be a date or two - or if last as a couple

Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise are getting a divorce after a five year marriage.

Boguslaw Pawlowski, Ph.D., a Polish Anthropologist has noticed an interesting body language predictor of relationship longevity (it also predicts male-female & female-male attraction) - height ratio. When the man is 9% taller (1.09 times taller or the woman being 0.917 the height of the man) - Boguslaw found that this is the optimal ratio for longevity of a relationship. He found that the further a couple is from this height-proportion, the shorter the relationship tends to last. Like all statistics, this tendency describes large numbers of people (also disease behavior, sports stats, economics, etc.) and we can place too much emphasis when we look at small numbers or individual cases - but one can't help but wonder if this nonverbal quality had some influence on Katie and Tom - for she is 5'9" and he is 5'7" (a male to female ratio of only 0.97! - or said another way she is 3% taller than he, see below).

By the way - Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward (married for 50 years) ratio was exactly 1.09 and Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick (married 24 years) ratio is very close, 1.085!

See also:

Analysis No. 39: Affectionate vs. Non-affectionate Hug

Analysis No. 48: A Lizard Tongue gives us a Great Glimpse into Katie Holmes' Psyche

Romance, Marriage and Dating - Body Language Secret No. 609: Going from High Heels to Flats and then back to Heels

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 2191:  Anne Hathaway's Impersonation of Katie Holmes on SNL -  "Norming" Katie and Variations on a Theme

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 1921:  Who was More Dominant -  Tom Cruise or Katie Holmes?

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Negotiation Nonverbal Communication Secret # 1201: The Height Advantage

If you're a male, an advantage in height will make you more electable - but don't tell that to Nicholas Sarkozy. Being taller also engenders ease of getting hired, more promotions, higher salary, number of romantic encounters and even life span. Depending on your source, the French President is either 5'5" (1.651 M) or 5'6.25" (1.683 M) while President Obama is 6'1" (1.854 M). Don't feel sorry for Nicholas though, he's married to a supermodel, he's a head-of-state and has a net worth of 2 million Euro.

Pictured here at a D-Day commemoration ceremony in 2009, Sarkozy currently is trailing behind Francois Hollade in the Polls for the French Presidential Election. Holland is 5'8" tall (1.727 M).

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Romance, Marriage and Dating - Body Language Secret No. 609: Going from High Heels to Flats and then back to Heels (PHOTO)

When a woman is close to, the same height or taller than her husband or boy friend - she will very often stop wearing high heels and wear shoes with low heels or even flats. This is very prevalent nonverbal early in the relationship. She does this for several reasons - to make him feel more masculine - and to make herself feel more feminine. In addition, particularly if he is shorter than average - she does not want to remind him of his short stature (super models, Carla Bruni and Nicolas Sarkozy, etc., excluded).

Thus when the opposite occurs - and a woman begins to wear high heels significantly more often (and her male partner is short in either a relative or absolute sense), especially if she deliberately wore shorter heels or flats early in the relationship - this can be a strong warning signal of a drifting apart in the relationship (waning of affection) or even an affair (a notable exception here is for a job which dictates a change in professional attire).

One obvious reason for this body language-shoe change is the desire to be attractive to other potential partners. It is just as common however, that this is a symptom of a "turning off" or "dialing down" of empathy and affection for their soon to be Ex-boyfriend/Ex-husband. Affection and Empathy are strongly related to, and proportional to love.

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