No one says marriage is easy, with kids and careers often taking priority over relationships. Comic Frank Skinner has been with partner Cath Mason for 18 years and reckons they are only together now thanks to walking holidays. Their seven-year-old son, Buzz, stays with Cath’s sister while the couple enjoy two-day treks across England. Cath, 50, and the 62-year-old funnyman had tried couples’ counselling but Frank said their walks ‘did the job even better’. And they aren’t the only ones who took up exercising to help their relationship. Here, two couples explain how they saved their marriages.
‘We dance out the tension’
Gemma Keogh, 32, runs a building-maintenance firm with husband Stephen, 30. They live in Heywood, Greater Manchester, and have three children: Brianna, eight, Kenneth, five, and three-year-old Kayden. I met Stephen 12 years ago at a friend’s house party. Instantly, I knew he was The One. We moved in together just two months later. We had our daughter Brianna in 2011 and married in July 2013. Shortly after tying the knot, we decided we wanted to work for ourselves and set up our company.
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