Nearly twenty years ago, a young man named Richard Kane stood in the check-out line at a home decoration store watching couples in front of him spending money on improving their homes. How much money and effort, he wondered, do these couples spend on improving their relationships?
Pondering further on this question, he wondered why it was that men saw car maintenance as something normal granted but gave little time or effort to marriage maintenance. So the man had an idea, and started something called Marriage Week, first in the UK and which has spread to many other countries since then.
Jeff Fountain, Director of the Schuman Centre for European Studies spoke to Mark about the meaning of marriage in today’s society
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