Commit or Quit - Two Year Rule & Rules for Romance

You want reliable love. But how can you be sure?
Relationship expert Harry Benson offers you the new rules ...

Out May 2020

[Commit or Quit - Two Year Rule & Rules for Romance @CommitQuit]

The book is now out, it's Marriage Week and the theme is the 'forever conversation'

Whether you plan to marry or not, Commit or Quit gives you new 'rules' that will help you choose well and avoid ambiguous drift

@harrybenson6 @marriageweekuk @LionHudson
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[Marriage Foundation @MarriageF]

The latest research and stats from Marriage Foundation ahead of @marriageweekuk 7-14 Feb right here:
https://t.co/C03TrDGGc1

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[Dr Harry Benson @harrybenson6]

12 o'clock today
Grab a coffee
Tune in to @BBCRB @johndarvall
Let me tell you a story ...
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[Dr Harry Benson @harrybenson6]

So how should young couples negotiate cohabitation without getting stuck in a relationship that's going nowhere?
Read the book I wrote that my kids use!
@CommitQuit
https://t.co/e3zqqJiC6p

[Dr Harry Benson @harrybenson6]

You're much more likely to find patriarchy in cohabitation than marriage today. Lots of interest in my evidence to @Commonswomequ earlier this week.
Do you agree?
@CommitQuit
1/2

[Dr Harry Benson @harrybenson6]

So how should young couples negotiate cohabitation without getting stuck in a relationship that's going nowhere?
Read the book I wrote that my kids use!
@CommitQuit
2/2
https://t.co/e3zqqJiC6p

[Dr Harry Benson @harrybenson6]

Modern patriarchy is found more in cohabitation than marriage. Ambiguity in a relationship can produce asymmetry of commitment. Power rests with the less committed person, more often than not the man.
Part of my evidence to @Commonswomequ 2/3

[Dr Harry Benson @harrybenson6]

Student!
@BristolUni #PhD @UoBrisSPS #socialpolicy
#MarriageGap

[GB News @GBNEWS]

'With social media you can see everybody, you can see all the options in front of you.'

Harry Benson, research director of the Marriage Foundation, says 'when there is a lot more people to get rid of' the decision to marry becomes harder.

[Dr Harry Benson @harrybenson6]

"If you're paying 40% tax and you're planning to have kids, you'll probably get married. If you're in minimum wage you probably won't."
My relationships column in Sep/Oct @SortedMagazine

[Marriage Foundation @MarriageF]

'Growing apart' is the leading cause of divorce. The tragedy is that so much of this is utterly avoidable
Read @harrybenson6's story of his own back-from-the-brink marriage if you want to save yours
@WhatMumsWantUK
https://t.co/lYawEGyDki

[Marriage Foundation @MarriageF]

NAKED marriage
- Big weddings are back. But we need smaller 'naked' weddings
- Our survey: 80%+ 18-30s want to marry; 1:3 say costs are a barrier
- Schools Minister gives family policy speech but ignores marriage
- More on @marriageweekuk in our June news
https://t.co/ER3etJnvRb

[Dr Harry Benson @harrybenson6]

"Friendship is the fundamental characteristic of marriage but it's all too easy to take each other for granted unless there's a bit of intent, a bit of effort made to connect and enjoy each other’s company"
@MarriageF @marriageweekuk
@annatyzack @Telegraph
https://t.co/1hVAMCVa7x

[Marriage Foundation @MarriageF]

It's Marriage Week this week @marriageweekuk and the theme is 'Naked Marriage'!
Find out why ...
https://t.co/dNo1Yv1php

[Dr Harry Benson @harrybenson6]

Hungary for marriage
- Hungary's marriage rates are up 72% in five years. i interviewed their minister @KatalinNovakMP to find out why
- Our thoughts on the Sewell report
- Lone parents back at 1990s levels
- @marriageweekuk coming
- Watch @RHubTV !
https://t.co/Jk5jRtqoqB

[Marriage Foundation @MarriageF]

-HUNGARY for marriage - rates have soared 72% in 5 years. We asked Families Minister @KatalinNovakMP why
-The Sewell racism report points at family breakdown but then stops
-Lone parents down to 1990s levels
-@marriageweekuk is 10-16 May!
-Watch @RHubTV
https://t.co/3Bcv4iW8BR

[Dr Harry Benson @harrybenson6]

Thank you to 'Freddie' for a great new 5* Amazon review
@CommitQuit

[Dr Harry Benson @harrybenson6]

Why marriage is massively relevant in the 21st Century
https://t.co/whD9hTQKQq

[Dr Harry Benson @harrybenson6]

WATCH! Why I am a fan of marriage "not because of outdated traditions but because the psychology and evidence about marriage go so strongly with the grain of human nature"
https://t.co/XYDAgvbkTY
https://t.co/AKFcFssMSo

[Dr Harry Benson @harrybenson6]

The new @ONS release of UK Families and Households data for 2020 talks rather blandly about the changing 'way people live'. What they've missed is that falling divorce rates have produced the lowest level of lone parent families since the 1990s. https://t.co/5ThblFaCFt

[Dr Harry Benson @harrybenson6]

❤️SWIPE right for love❤️
Counterintuitive and fun story from us this morning - in Sunday Express and Sunday Times. Our new survey found that 18-30s who met via 'casual dating apps' were more likely to want to marry than those who met via 'long term apps'!
https://t.co/xjrNPfunk0