Wife swap

[frances5]

Tonight they had two families. One lady was a senior lecturer who was obsessed about food and food labelling. She was also in a wheelchair and loved lots of activity. The other family were a bunch of slobs who ate cr@p and did no exercise. They also considered shouting and swearing to be a normal form of communication.

The lady in the wheelchair had broken her back at the age of 17 because she was drunk. I was shocked that the other family made it clear that she deserved no sympathy, yet their daughter getting pregnant at 15 was a "good mistake".

This was on "More 4"

I was utterly shocked by that bunch of lazy tragedies for a family.

Especially the wife, who banged on and on about Ruth (the lady in the wheelchair) 'never wanting to be wrong', yet she couldn't see ANYTHING at all wrong with ANY of her behaviour.

Ignorant and pathetic.

'Twenty years ago, you could eat anything you wanted, smoke anything and it wasn't bad for you.'

Sure, yeah, right, lady. Keep telling yourself that.

sorry I meant E4

www.channel4.com/life/microsites/W/wifeswap/index.html

Missed this as DH wanted to watch NCSI or whatever its called. I really wanted to see it... i think it was a repeat from the other night, when it clashed with some other american thing.

Agree with description of the family with 5 girls but if you really looked at the two families, which seemed happiest? Not Ruth's family. The other woman (although she didn't have a clue about her family's health) at least seemd to be more in touch with reality and what's involved in sustaining a happy marriage. I reckon they were a bit too opposite though and too far from each other's lives to be able to understand enough and therefore change enough. Good watching though.

Ive just watched this and was amazed . The thing that really gets me if you have ever watched the American version . My god its so sugary sweet at least the english version is more realistic. Have to say though the DH of additive lady made me want to smack him hard when he bought up on national tv that he didnt have the balls to tell her he wanted more say in their marriage .Poor woman I felt really sorry for her .