Love

The big family planning issue for most couples used to be how to avoid unexpected pregnancies. As more couples marry later in life, increasingly this is shifting to get the pregnancy they desire. [...]

No matter how easy it may seem to fall in love, staying in love requires attention and effort. We all start out in marriage bright in hope and full of brimming love. Yet rarely do those [...]

Let’s face it – marriage can be a tough gig these days. Living in a culture that almost expects marriage to fail, couples wonder what they can do to immunise their relationship against the [...]

We all seek happiness and are drawn to the things we believe will make us happy. But sometimes, the things we desire fail to deliver. Whether it’s a lotto payout, the dream job, the [...]

The Marriage Myth Too many times have we heard the complaint – “I’m just not happy in this marriage anymore”. For couples today, personal happiness has become the measure of whether a marriage is [...]

What is happiness anyway? Speaking of what makes a wife or husband happy (Quest for Happiness Series) perhaps we should look at what happiness is and more importantly, whether it really is the [...]

What do men want? In all the discussions about what makes a wife happy (see Quest for Happiness Series: What Women Really Want & The Equality Myth), it strikes us that the happiness of [...]

What women really want If equality in work isn’t the answer for making happy wives (see Part 1: Quest for Happiness Series, The Equality Myth), what is? According to the same study that looked at [...]

The Equality Myth Inequality in the division of labour at home has long been a sore point for married women. In theory, the egalitarian model of the modern dual-income, shared-homemaking marriage [...]

A lot of people feel trapped in a dissatisfying or troubled marriage. They feel powerless to ‘fix’ it because their spouse refuses to join them in counselling or a marriage enrichment course. Yet [...]