Your best friend is one who brings out the best in you. Men think more about sex than money.
Women think more about money than sex.
Those were the surprising results found by Money Magazine in its 1996 survey. They can afford to. They worry that they won't be financially independent. Because they worry about risk, women tend to invest too much in highly conservative investments such as certificates of deposit, savings accounts and bonds. They instinctively favor those investments over riskier stock investments because they know how they work, and they are afraid to take risks that may cost them money.