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Warring couples offered free honeymoons

A Malaysian state government is to offer free second honeymoons to couples on the brink of divorce to try to rekindle their marriages.

Troubled couples will be allowed to spend two nights at Terengganu state’s scenic islands or beach resorts, reports The Star.

Ashaari Idris, a state government official, says the Second Honeymoon programme is designed to “resolve marital problems and to create models of exemplary families”.

Couples would only be offered the free holidays if they had tried and failed to mend their marriage through counselling, he added.

Mr Idris said a pilot programme with 25 couples had yielded positive results.

Couples on the brink of divorce had been sent on a three-day, two-night honeymoon package, and many had since patched up their problems.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .