It tends to be a busy time for us in Care for the Family, for almost invariably the media will ask us to make a string of comments on love, romance, and marriage. Over and over again I have seen marriages that, by most standards, seemed over, suddenly find life again. And so often as I answer, I find my mind going back down the years to some of the couples who have crossed our paths. I remember a cold snowy night in Canada and the marriage seminar held just outside Toronto. The auditorium was filling up when one of the stewards took me aside.
Nobody knows why they've come.
I too was wondering why this couple had made the effort. By now there were others sitting around them but the pair had pushed their chairs as far apart from each other as possible without inconveniencing the people on either side. They didn't speak or acknowledge each other in any way. When others went to get a coffee at the interval, they remained seated and again didn't say a word. And that's how I thought they would stay until the close of the event, but I was wrong.