TO MAKE HAPPY MARRIAGES
If I had a daughter or a son who was engaged to be married, I should, if possible, arrange that they both lived with me for three whole months before they married, writes “A Gallery Girl” in the Star. They should each go on with their ordinary daily work and be free to do what they liked and go where they liked in the evenings. The newcomer would be in no sense a guest, but just live the ordinary home life as one of the family. At the end of those three months, I do not think there would be many false illusions left for either of them, and if they still wished to set up a home together, I believe that home would be a really happy one. Such a plan is, I know, not practicable in many cases, but where it can possibly be managed it should be tried. At its worst it does no harm, which is more than can be said for Helen’s plan in “Why Marry?” and at its best it would prevent many unhappy marriages.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18019, 6 November 1920, Page 10
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185TO MAKE HAPPY MARRIAGES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18019, 6 November 1920, Page 10
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