The week from the 13 – 19 September is Marriage Week. This is a week that we can all get excited about because marriage and fatherhood are two sides of the same coin. Alison and I have always been passionate about having a good marriage and supportin ...read more
If you have been reading this newsletter for any length of time you would have realised by now that I am a self-confessed marriage junkie. In other words I am very interested in the latest research on marriage and family. Not only do I like the lates ...read more
It’s been an inspiring week for me in more ways than one. I was one of more than 2 million people who attended a Dawn Service on Anzac Day. All over Australia records were broken. The Canberra War Memorial Dawn Service had 120,000 people attend, thre ...read more
Well all good things this side of heaven must come to an end. What did we learn in the last module of the Marriage Kit, Module 5 “From Me to We”? What do we think of the online Marriage Kit? I will let Alison answer first: Alison: Initially I was sur ...read more
Alison: Francine & Byron have excelled in this module. Although we personally know this amazing couple, we have never yet done one of their marriage courses – until now! So we have no idea if they have always produced such thought provoking mater ...read more
Alison: Here is a joke about marriage education I remembered: My wife and I went to a Marriage Workshop last week: I worked She shopped. The Marriage Kit continues to widen and deepen my long education on marriage (40 years this year!). Module 3 is a ...read more
The joke that our photo and humour editor, Ron Hellyer, posted in the laughter section the other week sure put a smile on my face. I am equally sure that the vast majority of men who read our newsletter each week would also be able to smile and say, ...read more
The Marriage Kit just gets better and better. The Love Tank is getting seriously full. This type of online course really works for marriage couples because you can do it together. Love Deconstructed, the title of the second module of the Marriage Kit ...read more
Steve Biddulph says, ‘love grows the brain’. Steve is right but love is one of those commodities that is in desperately short supply in the homes that many children inhabit. Currently one in three marriages fail. The rate is higher for second and thi ...read more
This week Alison and I completed part one of a five week marriage called The Marriage Kit by Dr Byron & Francine Pirola . . . and you know what? It works! Every year we have always tried to find a course or a seminar to do to fortify our marriage ...read more
