October 2016

Visit From the Marriage Auditor

VISIT FROM THE MARRIAGE AUDITOR Imagine you received a phone call that went something like this:  "Mr & Mrs Herald, we need to make an appointment with you to do a 'Marriage Audit'.  Can we make it 8.00pm tonight?  Thank you.  See you at 8.00pm." Marriage Audit?  I've heard of a tax audit, but what on earth is a 'Marriage Audit'?  8.00pm comes and the 'Marriage Audit' team arrive.  For 30-45 ...

By |2021-05-14T13:21:24+10:00October 29th, 2016|LOVE & MARRIAGE, Other Topics|0 Comments

Marriage Creates Love

A great poet once said, “Love is a many-splendored thing”. Whilst many of us would agree with Shakespeare, it seems that many would also agree with Eric Clapton when he sings, “Why does love got to be so sad?” Or maybe you feel more like the Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam when he sings in a song called Black  “love gone bad turned my world to black”? Several years ago my ...

By |2016-10-29T10:01:55+10:00October 29th, 2016|Other Topics|0 Comments

The Mystery of the Basket

What is it about us men? But maybe I am just talking to myself here. So sorry for bringing you into it. I have always had this attitude. It’s called ‘separation of duties’. Sort of like saying to my wife, “You do your job and I will do mine”. My wife only worked for the first three years of our marriage and so we tried to share home duties a bit ...

By |2021-05-14T13:21:24+10:00October 22nd, 2016|Dads, LOVE & MARRIAGE, MANHOOD|0 Comments

Marriage Matters

Many years ago I made a speech with my wife at a function in Parliament House, Canberra on the importance of mothers and fathers. Our goal was to encourage both the Liberal and Labor parties to value equally mothers and fathers after divorce, and not to follow the politically correct line that devalues fathers because of anti-male feminist ideology. The function my wife and I spoke at was the The National ...

By |2021-05-14T13:21:48+10:00October 18th, 2016|Dads, LOVE & MARRIAGE|0 Comments

Passionate for Marriage

Alison and I have always been passionate about having a good marriage and supporting and encouraging marriages everywhere. That passion is not getting weaker but it is getting stronger as we get older. Maybe my main motivation is the pain I experienced from growing up in a divided home: when Mum went her way for many years and Dad went his way. The trouble of course was that my brother and ...

By |2021-05-14T13:21:48+10:00October 7th, 2016|Dads, FAMILIES, LOVE & MARRIAGE|0 Comments

How to Love a Woman

People have said to me, “Warwick, if you could write a book about ‘How to Love a Woman’, you would be a millionaire overnight.” My problem is that every time I think I have learnt something about the art of loving a woman, and it is an art rather that a science, she changes, I change, the world changes and we are all back to square one again. The words of ...

By |2021-05-14T13:21:48+10:00October 1st, 2016|LOVE & MARRIAGE, MANHOOD|0 Comments
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