A friend posited that women with higher IQs and/or academic knowledge find it harder to have a successful relationship.

Successful here is defined as longevity AND being beneficial to the members of said relationship.

Also, this is for both homosexual and heterosexual relationships.

Do you agree with this? If yes, why do you think this is so?

When you see a succesful lady, ask her

Successful and highly educative ladies not just have it harder, but have it late. But when it comes, it comes in full force

You mean just higher IQ and knowledge? Like for example you mean female professors? If so then I think majority of them are married. As for the unmarried ones, I think they got too engrossed to their academic prowess that they didn't find time to have a partner.
Also some of them na igberaga attitude. While some considered themselves superior(feminist) and more

BusinessCity:
Successful and highly educative ladies not just have it harder, but have it late. But when it comes, it comes in full force

That's true. Cause they are so smart, they see your con from far away before you even play it.

Na ITK dey be their biggest problem but then, they insist on personal values than fickle nonsense.

Romanoff:


That's true. Cause they are so smart, they see your con from far away before you even play it.

Na ITK dey be their biggest problem but then, they insist on personal values than fickle nonsense.

When e come, fish dey fall from up o

i think they try to challenge da smartness of smart guys they meet(that are sincere). this results to a repeated competition(on who's smarter) everytime between them. this makes them repugnant to da smart guy and he walks away to save his strength.
da dull guy comes in with lies and forgery but da smart lady will (all of a sudden) lose her smartness and gets flummoxed by him. after a while, she realizes everything was a mirage, she leaves him (if she still can), look for a smart guy and da cycle continues.

dz cycle will only end in two ways:
1. when she meets a smart guy and stop that competition for smartness or da guy smartly allows her think she's smarter everytime (which is good), or
2. she meets a dull guy but it becomes too late for her to walk away.

lemme don't just talk

One phrase to describe it: different strokes for different folks.

anthonyuncle:
i think they try to challenge da smartness of smart guys they meet(that are sincere). this results to a repeated competition(on who's smarter) everytime between them. this makes them repugnant to da smart guy and he walks away to save his strength.
da dull guy comes in with lies and forgery but da smart lady will (all of a sudden) lose her smartness and gets flummoxed by him. after a while, she realizes everything was a mirage, she leaves him (if she still can), look for a smart guy and da cycle continues.

dz cycle will only end in two ways:
1. when she meets a smart guy and stop that competition for smartness or da guy smartly allows her think she's smarter everytime (which is good), or
2. she meets a dull guy but it becomes too late for her to walk away.

lemme don't just talk

Cool

Conceited/egoistic/crass/greedy/haughty ladies, not smart ladies, are the ones who mostly have it hard having successful relationships with men, especially aristocratic men. You'll hardly see a smart lady without one of the mentioned vices who doesn't have a successful relationship with aristocratic men.