“You got to be fucking kidding me?” Bette said looking at Dan Foxworthy her jaw dropped in surprise.

“You can’t be serious, Dan?” Tina said with a nervous chuckle.

“Look, what you have is a serious case the married life slump,” Dan said, “this is typical for couples who have been married for a long time.”

Bette and Tina looked at each other before turning back to Dan.

“This is the only option?” Bette said in frustration. She was taking it much harder than Tina, who was the more patient one of the two.

“Trust me, after this exercise, you will never have this problem again,” Dan said.

“How long?” Tina said accepting the challenge.

“T!” Bette whined, “this is crazy!”

Dan just turned to Tina and said, “what do you think, Tina?”

Bette hated when he did that. So many times she was on the verge of slapping him for asking that stupid question.

“Well, I think if it’ll fix the problem, then we should do it,” Tina said.

“Tina!” Bette whined dropping her head in defeat.

Tina chuckled and said, “you’ll survive, babe.”

“No I won’t!” Bette cried, “you went almost an entire year without it when we were broken up, I barely lasted a week or two!”

“You think that wasn’t a hard year for me?” Tina said.

“Now now, settle down,” Dan said gently, “no need to bring up old drama. That was several years ago.”

“You’re right,” Tina said, “so how long are we supposed to do this?”

“A month.”

“A WHOLE FUCKING MONTH!” Bette cried, “no Tina! I’m gonna fucking die!”

Tina chuckled and said, “no you’re not.”

“I don’t wanna do this,” Bette said crossing her arms and pouting. She had actually learned the pout from Angie and used it against Tina, but this time the trick didn’t work.

“Well, I do, so too bad,” Tina said standing up, “thanks for seeing us, Dan.”

“No problem,” he said standing up and shaking Tina’s hand, “come back whenever.”

Bette stood grumpily and shook Dan’s hand firmly before whispering so Tina wouldn’t here, “you fucker.”

Dan chuckled and said, “good luck, Bette.”

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“Ahhhh! I’m fucking burning alive in there Shane! Burning alive!” Bette cried pacing around the living room frantically.