Women regret love failures more than men

Women regret love failures more than men

While the common adage may encourage you not to dwell on the past, a new study finds that many harbor regrets, with romantic ones being particularly common.

But women outdid men in that category, with guys ranking work regrets above relationship ones, the researchers say. The study involved 370 Americans who were asked to discuss a significant regret from their lives. The most common regrets had to do with romance, family, education, career and finance.

“Regret is a common part of our lives, and it’s something that we see ... in people of all walks of life,” said study researcher Neal Roese, a professor of marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

But he said that regret could also be beneficial.

“The bad is obvious, but the good is it helps us put our lives together, helping us to put things into perspective,” said Roese. With romantic regrets, he said, “It helps to recognize ideals and goals. ...You can channel it into a current relationship. You may see some kernel of insight you can implement in your current life.”

Studying regret: Much of the research on regret is based on tests of college students, who are relatively inexpensive to compensate, simple to recruit and live on or near the campuses where the studies are done. In an attempt to get a better handle on regrets among the general public, this survey was done via phone to reach more diverse subjects.

Roese said that one finding in the current study that differed from past research was that romance, rather than education, was a primary source of regret.

However, he noted that there was a split. Nearly 45 percent of women expressed regret in the area of love, while less than 20 percent of men did. Meanwhile, nearly 35 percent of men expressed work regrets, compared with less than 30 percent of women.

Gavin and Stacey star James Corden and his fiancée Julia Carey have named their newborn son, Max.

Gavin and Stacey star James Corden and his fiancée Julia Carey have named their newborn son, Max.

The couple took their boy Max home from London's Portland hospital yesterday, but it is still unknown whether baby Max has inherited his father’s unusual middle name – Kimberly.

“James has really taken to fatherhood – he’s delighted to be a dad,” a source told the Daily Mail.

If you need some help finding a name for your bump, then check out our baby names finder.

MUSLIM fanatics behind the poppy-burning outrage last night vowed to hijack the Royal Wedding.

The hate-mongers threatened to start a riot during Prince William and Kate Middleton's celebrations.

The twisted pledge by supporters of the extremist Muslims Against Crusades group came as Scotland Yard chiefs confirmed that anarchist yobs are also planning trouble - as The Sun revealed in January.

The right-wing English Defence League added to fears by vowing to act against thugs trying to wreck the event on April 29.

The Muslim hardliners have set up a vile website showing pictures of Prince Harry with a misspelled tagline saying "Bestman is a Nazi". It refers to a 2005 Sun front page showing Harry at a pal's birthday wearing a Nazi armband in a misguided teenage prank.

The sick site calls the Royal Family "enemies to Allah and his messenger". The Union flag and flag of St George are shown in flames along with pictures of Muslim kids the group wrongly says were killed by British troops.

The site advises William and Harry to "withdraw from the British military and give up all affiliation to the tyrannical British Empire". It adds chillingly: "We promise that should they refuse, the day the nation has been dreaming of will become a nightmare."

Extremist Emdadur Choudhury, 26, was fined a pathetic £50 for breaching public order after burning poppies near London's Royal Albert Hall on Armistice Day last November.

Police yesterday said that they could use stop-and-search powers to thwart wedding protesters and guard against any terrorist threat.