:rain_cloud: therefore, there is a clear link between male retention strategies and aggression, the latter of which is usually used to implement such strategies, this idea is supported by Shackleford et al (2005) who found that when 107 couples, who'd been married for less than a year, individually completed the Male Retention Inventory (husbands) and the Spouse Influence Report (wives), there was a positive correlation between increasing scores on these two measures, which translated to being an important predictor of the use of aggression in such married relationships, this was further supported by Wilson et al (1995), who found that male retention strategies left 53% of respondents fearing for their lives