The New Zealand Herald Relationships study

The Herald's social issues reporter Simon Collins is planning a major series about how personal relationships are changing in our era of relative sexual equality - how men and women are defining new roles in the way we initiate, live in, and end relationships; how we are dividing up the tasks of housework, child rearing, home maintenance and so on, as well as paid work; the lessons we have learnt about what not to do in relationships; and the lessons we have learnt about what makes for loving and mutually supportive relationships that endure.

We are looking for 20 couples, covering a range of ages, ethnicities, income levels and parts of NZ, who would be willing to be interviewed about what you have learnt from your current and previous relationships. We hope that you will be willing to talk about what you have done wrong as well as what you have done right, so that you can help others both to avoid your mistakes and to be inspired by the things that have worked for you. We are asking you to spare us perhaps a couple of hours for an interview, and to be named, quoted and photographed in a series of articles drawing out common themes from all your experiences, which will appear in the Herald this summer. We are not offering payment; we are asking for your help for a journalistic project which we hope may help a little to improve the quality of our relationships and reduce family breakdown, violence and other effects of discordant relationships.

If you would be willing to take part in this project, please fill in your details below.

Fill out my online form.