Relationship Therapy

As the show came from from commercials, Holly was sat on a sofa with a couple from the audience.

“Now so far, every one we’ve had down here on this stage have been strangers, but not these two,” Holly gestured towards the couple sat next to her, “ Gemma and Paul here have been together for 5 years and married for three. So after all that time you’d expect there’s nothing left to argue about. So Paul do you know why you’re sat here with me and your lovely Gemma?”

“I assumed it was random, like all the others”, answered Paul, “But yeah, clearly I’m wrong.”

“He’s already admitting he’s wrong, that’s a good start,” quipped Holly, “Gemma wrote into the show asking to get payback on you, because apparently she takes second place to football of all things! But that’s not all is it Paul, because you’ve just booked a 2 week holiday in Spain, not for you and your Missus, no! For you and your 5 a side team to go and play football, drink, watch football, drink, talk about football and drink! Isn’t that right? Anything to say in your defence?”

“It’s not like all I do is football” argued Paul, and she knew I was a footie fan when we got together.”

“Oh dear”, said Holly, “it looks like you two have some decisions to make and that’s why we’re here. I’m going to give you five decisions, each of which have three options, this way we can see what you really love more. Football or Gemma!”

Gemma was laughing sat next to Holly clearly loving this, but the smile soon dropped as Holly continued “Don’t worry, Gemma’s not going to have it all her own way, some of those options will be even worse for her. But to see who is going to make those decisions, let’s play a little football, follow me.”