London: Women are more than twice as likely as men to have regrets about their romantic life.
When it comes to admitting regrets, romance happens to be the most common source of nagging anxiety, particularly among women, according to an American researcher.
In the field of romantic relationships, everyone seems to have made decisions they had come to regret, says Neal Roese, professor of marketing at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Business.
Some 370 adults across the US, aged between 20 and 80 years, were asked in a phone survey to list their biggest regrets and about 44 percent of the women listed romance, while only 19 percent of the men mentioned it, Roese said in the study published in journal Social Psychological and Personality Science.
Many of the romantic regrets were about "the one that got away, a missed opportunity or someone you knew in college with whom it didn't quite work out," he said.
The second-most common regret centered on family issues, such as a desire to have been kinder to a loved one.
Others regretted not going to college or not divorcing sooner, or choosing money over a life's passion.
Roese said many of those who took part in the survey were eager to do so, and some even became tearful as they spoke.
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