NicoleKidman: 5ft 11”. Tom Cruise: 5ft 7”. Height Difference: 4 inches. Relationship Status: After getting together on the set of their Averagingthe women's 8" difference and the men's 2" difference gives an overall average of 5". The difference in average male and female height is also ~5". So if one were determined to declare an "ideal", 5" seems to make the most sense based on 2 separate metrics. Men prefer women 4in shorter. Onaverage, men prefer a male height advantage of between -2" and +3" with about +2" being the average. And on average, women prefer a male height advantage between +5" and +10" with the average being +8". So, men tend to think the ideal is when the man is 2" taller and women tend to think the ideal is when a man is 8" taller. Thanks brother Butstill, the exact science of what constitutes the perfect couple height difference specific for heterosexuals is not fully settled. men who are 6'3" and 6'4" got Whenwe think of K-Drama couples with cute height differences, most of us first think about Haru (SF9 Rowoon) and Dan Oh (Kim Hye Yoon) of the fantasy school romance “Extra-ordinary You!” What makes “Extra-ordinary You” so interesting is that the drama is set inside a webtoon (YES, the characters are actually webtoon characters!). Holdinghands is awkward. Holding hands, one of the most intimate displays of public affection, gets complicated with a lot of arm bending and dangling. Also, as the person who is typically Sowhile 1 foot height difference couples are statistically pretty rare, they’re not completely abnormal either. The actual height difference isn’t bad at all. After all, there are plenty of children who are a foot shorter than their parents. I suppose that a 1 foot height difference between two adults is far less common, but still, there Theaverage age difference (for a heterosexual couple) is 2.3 years, with the man older than the woman. In 64 percent of heterosexual couples, the man is older. In 23 percent, the woman is older OFRI.