Sir Paul Coleridge, a retired High Court judge told Premier: “One needs to be very careful when you talk about how to do marriage because of course there is no one size fits all and people do have different models for their committed relationships”.
“But on the whole I think it is very risky. I think if you spend long periods apart you put a relationship inevitably under strain and, using the euphemism, other distractions have a habit of filling the vacuum and if you’re not careful you find that, for one reason or another, the relationship you once had has dwindled.”
He said: “It’s very, very difficult to expect a relationship to flourish if you have long periods apart” and gave the example of one partner going to prison, saying sometimes the partner outside can hang on but the distance often causes a huge strain.
Of course, there are unavoidable partings, he cited military service or jobs which take people away as some of these but added: “it’s not desirable; the thing about marriage is that you have the daily things in life in common”.
In the article in The Times, one woman credited her partner’s frequent holidays away without her as the reason for their long marriage.
Speaking of short trips with friends and partners having different hobbies, Sir Paul Coleridge said that was fine: “there are many, many couples who go away for weekends with…
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