A girl in her pre-teens resting next to her doll-house starts dreaming of her knight on shining armour. And after her teens, parents too are on the lookout of the proverbial tall, dark and handsome (TDS) guy thought Shahrukh Khan promotes a cream that makes one ‘fair and handsome like him’.

This ‘TDS’ longing has resulted in increasing rate of divorce even in India where it still is the lowest – less than 2 percent but has increased by one hundred percent in the urban areas in the five years. It is because we choose a person who looks chocolate-boy Shahid Kapoor, who has jumped from Kareena to Amrita to Sania to Priyanka and now to Bipasha, instead of the family-man Ajay Devgan type.

A recent survey conducted by a magazine reflected that only 44 percent of married women wished to marry the same person in their next birth. Pity, the ‘saat janmon ka bandhan’ promise failed to cross the pious fire of the wedding mandap for majority of them!

Do you want a very intelligent husband in yourself or for your daughter? Beware, Dr Willard F Harley, marriage expert, says,”The girl and the boy should be roughly equivalent in intelligence, within about 15 I.Q. Points”. The common blunder that is committed is marrying potential. The parents think that ‘he has the potential of improving after marriage’. Girl! Know your would-be hubby’s habits, character, and see if you can live with these as they are now, then go ahead and hold his hand. The experts say that a girl or her family may expect him to change after marriage but mostly the change is for the worst.

All the shows that selecting Mr. Right is a tedious job. Yes, it is; but a recent survey conducted on 51,000 people in London has made it simpler. Go to the nearest museum or art gallery or a cultural house or a theatre hall and keep an eye on the person who is closed to the one in your heart. He is the person in the better shape, both mentally and physically. Such persons have a good state of health, are satisfied with life and their levels of anxiety and depression are very low. The high-sample research of its kind has disclosed: “The biggest beneficiaries were men who were interested in watching and looking cultural rather than actively participating in it themselves”.

The study has found that Mr. Right should be in the audience but Miss Right has to be on the stage — men gain most from receptive cultural activities and women from creative cultural activities. So, happy hunt!