/ (min cost $ 0 ) or signup to continue reading My daughter calls from the battlefield. She's tough. Been in the trenches for years.
But she can no longer hide the despair in her weary voice. "It's grim," she reports. "It gets more brutal by the day.
" Typical war. Bodies everywhere while decency, honour and intelligence remain in short supply. She sighs.
"I think it's time to give up." Too early to surrender, I say. You signed up for this.
Might as well stick it out. I remind her of the wisdom of General George S. Patton: "Courage is fear holding on a minute longer than reason.
" Easy for me to say from the safety of my home while she's navigating minefields, putting her life on the line. So I offer sage advice from another famous expert in conflict, Pat Benatar: "No promises. No demands.
Love is a battlefield." No amount of fatherly encouragement, however, can convince my 30-year-old daughter to persevere with the dating scene. I've wondered if she is too picky.
I've explained to her that men with intelligence, good looks, humour and particularly modesty are extremely rare. She should feel blessed one of them is her dad. But I've heard enough of her war stories from love's frontline to believe her.
Many of her friends share her dismay and science is backing them up. At a time when the internet and dating apps guarantee love is just a click away, good men are becoming harder to find. Single Australian households are on the rise - more than one in four are now occupied by peopl.
