How does your intelligence compare with your SO's?

n0ob
n0ob Posts: 2,390 Member
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My wife and I are pretty close, as all our standardized tests were close. I pick up things faster; she worked harder in school.

How do you and your SO compare?
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  • pastryari
    pastryari Posts: 8,646 Member
    I'm smarter. But then again, I don't have a SO so the competition really isn't that high...
  • drmerc
    drmerc Posts: 2,603 Member
    This is something I don't have to worry about!

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  • spade117
    spade117 Posts: 2,466 Member
    Depends on the subject matter.
  • the_journeyman
    the_journeyman Posts: 1,877 Member
    We're pretty closely matched. I excel in some areas she doesn't, and vice-versa.

    JM
  • lydia_the_tattooed_lady
    lydia_the_tattooed_lady Posts: 324 Member
    I tend to go for smart guys...the guy I'm talking to right now is a college professor with a PhD in Political Science. I'm smart, but not formally educated. A semester here and there of college.
  • auroranflash
    auroranflash Posts: 3,569 Member
    We fill each other's holes.
  • jackpotclown
    jackpotclown Posts: 3,275 Member
    We fill each other's holes.
    FTW^ \m/
  • SueGeer
    SueGeer Posts: 1,169 Member
    I'm more academic, he's more practical.....we fit together just nicely.....
  • _skittybang
    _skittybang Posts: 970 Member
    Where one lacks, the other makes up. He has his strengths as do I. But looking back at how we scored on standardized tests and school work... I WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :bigsmile:
  • EmilyOfTheSun
    EmilyOfTheSun Posts: 1,548 Member
    My BF is a smarty. People often ask me if blonde is my natural color :( It's not. Guess I'm just fu*king ditzy!
  • heypurdy
    heypurdy Posts: 196 Member
    My SO and I are pretty evenly matched. We both went to grad school for Accounting/Business. Different undergrads though, mine was Accounting and his was Sport Management. Still, I think we are both pretty smart!
  • RunsOnEspresso
    RunsOnEspresso Posts: 3,218 Member
    We are pretty much equal. Although he tends to think he knows everything. :laugh:
  • JustANumber85
    JustANumber85 Posts: 644 Member
    I have more common sense, he has more book sense. I react in the moment and he thinks forever and a day about it. :)
  • Ge0rgiana
    Ge0rgiana Posts: 1,649 Member
    About the same. I might have a couple of points on him, but not many. :bigsmile:
  • jfontanna
    jfontanna Posts: 24 Member
    I'm more book smart, she's more street smart.
    I learn faster, she tries harder.
    I work IT, she works HR.
    I'm tech savvy, she has trouble with setting clocks.
    I'm an introvert, she's an extrovert.

    Basically, we're two sides to one coin. She completes me.
  • PibblesRun
    PibblesRun Posts: 236 Member
    My husband is really smart, although he doesnt see it! I do...every day. I think he should have went to college to become some history professor or something! He knows so much about history, watches jeopardy every night and beats most of them on the show! Im not that smart at all...maybe in the woman department, how to cook, bake, take care of a child and clean! lol He wonders why I ask him so many questions. He says "why are you asking me, go look it up" i tell him, well its a compliment, I think he knows everything! :)
  • downsizinghoss
    downsizinghoss Posts: 1,035 Member
    Well, she was stupid enough to marry me.... I must be smarter!
  • heypurdy
    heypurdy Posts: 196 Member
    Continued....

    Although, he is always up-to-date on current events and politics. I could care less! So he is definitely more intelligent in those areas :)
  • BSchoberg
    BSchoberg Posts: 712 Member
    I am WAY smarter - learn things faster, solve problems better. The husband, tho, has an uncanny memory --- if it comes out of a movie or a song, he'll remember it forever. If it comes out of my mouth, not so much...
  • _Elemenopee_
    _Elemenopee_ Posts: 2,665 Member
    We're both know-it-alls but I actually DO know-it-all. :laugh:
  • gailmelanie
    gailmelanie Posts: 210 Member
    My husband is more intelligent than me, but that doesn't mean, by a long shot, that I am of low intelligence! And the problem is he thinks a lot of people are stupid, and sometimes that attitude applies to me. Condescension infuriates me, especially from him and I have told him this numerous times, but it still happens. On the other hand, he wouldn't have been interested in me in the first place if he truly thought I wasn't intelligent. And, as you say, we have different talents, abilities and aptitudes. We try to put them together to make a cohesive partnership. There are still areas where we can't seem to put that together, however.
  • _Bob_
    _Bob_ Posts: 1,487 Member
    My wife is more book smart and I am more street smart like Mcgyver :wink:

    so we are both smarter than the other, and stupider than the other in different ways
  • cmcollins001
    cmcollins001 Posts: 3,472 Member
    Since my wife is a friend of mine on MFP...I'll just say that I'm smart enough to say "She is!"
  • BusyRaeNOTBusty
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
    We're about the same. I've had more (better) schooling and have a more "intellectual" sounding job, but he's just as smart, he just hasn't utilized it as I have (he doesn't want a 9-5 desk job anyway).
  • alvalaurie
    alvalaurie Posts: 369 Member
    Common sense wise - we're evenly matched.

    Academically - he's way smarter than me!

    Street smarts - DEFINATELY him!! I'm so green, it still baffles him how I don't know certain things!

    He has a memory like an elephant & takes extreme pride in his extensive knowledge of the history of music & WWII. He can tell you things that make you go, "how in the hell do you remember that......& why?"

    Knowledge is power - he takes that saying VERY seriously!
  • IslandRider
    IslandRider Posts: 244
    Well, she was stupid enough to marry me.... I must be smarter!

    LOL!
  • Cliffslosinit
    Cliffslosinit Posts: 5,044 Member
    My girlfriend is pretty sharp.
    I like being with someone with intelligence.
    Oh hey that is why I divorced the Ex! HA!!
  • emtjmac
    emtjmac Posts: 1,320 Member
    My wife and I are pretty close but I'm more intelligent than anyone I know so...
  • Cyngen
    Cyngen Posts: 557 Member
    We fit together just fine, my wife and I. We've not found any problem in life that we can't get a solution for working together.
  • PibblesRun
    PibblesRun Posts: 236 Member
    Common sense wise - we're evenly matched.

    Academically - he's way smarter than me!

    Street smarts - DEFINATELY him!! I'm so green, it still baffles him how I don't know certain things!

    He has a memory like an elephant & takes extreme pride in his extensive knowledge of the history of music & WWII. He can tell you things that make you go, "how in the hell do you remember that......& why?"

    Knowledge is power - he takes that saying VERY seriously!

    That sounds like my husband! Knows all about the wars!

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