Hopelessly unhappy? Drifting apart? Before you give up hope for your marriage, read this …
(Reproduced from January 2018) I know. Maybe your marriage is a mess. It’s drifting, it’s become functional, it’s lost the love and it’s not what you dreamed. In short it needs a kick up the backside. Maybe you’ve even finally decided it’s over. At last you’ve summoned up the courage to call it a day. […]
Smart dads, smart kids?
I like paradoxes. So here’s one. How come less than half of all school leavers have both English and Maths GCSE at grade C or higher, yet my daughter, now at university, tells me her experience of the state education system was excellent? These education statistics are astonishingly awful. In fact they remind me of […]
Mothers happy to do lion’s share of household chores in return for kindness, finds survey
PRESS RELEASE FROM MARRIAGE FOUNDATION AND MARRIAGE WEEK: A new survey of 291 mothers reveals that most mothers still tend to take responsibility for the majority of the childcare and domestic chores. More than half of these consider this a fair arrangement and less than half think it unfair. Only a small minority – […]
What Mums Want (And Dads Need To Know)
Marriage Week runs from 7-14 February. Here our Research Director Harry Benson tells the story of how his marriage went badly wrong, and what happened to turn it around. What Mums Want (And Dads Need To Know) by Harry and Kate Benson is out now! We did the classic thing of growing apart. The first […]