Author Archive: Liz Watene

My husband and I are both New Zealanders, but he is Maori and I am Caucasian, or better known to any New Zealander as a “Pakeha,” the same word the early Maori’s gave to the pink-skinned pigs. No insult was…
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If this question was to be answered generally, some might feel to say “yes.” If this question was to be answered specifically, the answer is emphatically, “no!” I was brought up with two brothers and my Dad, with many years…
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In over twenty years of knowing my husband, it has only been in these last couple of years that my husband has said, “I should have listened to you, you were so right.” Prior to this, my husband would often…
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Nowadays, so many couples write their own vows, and somehow I’m not sure some of those vows are truly worth honoring, let alone any importance in honoring them. However, if we are talking about the traditional vows, “for better, for…
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My husband cheated on me, and our marriage has survived! Admittedly, he did something which I understand that few cheating husbands do he came to me early in his “cheating” and essentially admitted/confessed to me that he was a one-woman-man…
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Whether unfaithfulness within a couple’s relationship is brought about due to an affair, financial issues, violence, greed, bad communication or any other of many reasons, each “reason” is rooted from one or both of two character flaws, pride and/or selfishness….
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Via experience of having been in a relationship for twenty years, part of which my husband and I were separated and divorced and then later remarried, my opinion on making premarital counseling mandatory is a resounding, “Yes!” Having been re-married…
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