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I'm not sure your interpretation of that study is right, I know the part about men being unwillling to be influenced as a predictor of relationship failure was right but was there an affirmative finding that women WERE influence or was it just assumed that because there was no finding that resistance to being influenced was causing breakups that women were being influenced when in fact it was also possible that women were NOT being influenced but that that was not causing the relationships to break up. Once both parties have a big investment both parties care, where the biggest change has come in due to changes in women's independence is in average men's ability to get a foot in the "door". I've actually seen it happen more than once that women are shocked to find their new SO disagrees with them about ANYTHING, since he had to hide the fact in order to get anything going to begin with.
