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12 Years of Marriage

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Brief overview

Rosie and Chris Ramsey mark 12 years married while unpicking family holidays, money trust and illness.

  1. A family-resort holiday is a week of lifeguardingChris says as soon as your own kids settle, someone else's starts screaming, and you end up watching a four-year-old walk the pool edge with nobody supervising.
  2. Keep your own account and know the numbersAfter Chris's card declined at a meal, Rosie tells listeners who leave everything to their other half to stop now and get involved with their finances.
  3. One push got Robin a holiday friend groupRosie told him now or never with three days left and promised to pack up the sunbeds if the group said no; he spent the rest of the week with them.
Executive Summary AI
  • Rosie and Christopher Ramsey open by celebrating their 12th wedding anniversary, working out they would need 27 or 28 years together before they have been together longer than they have not.1:25
  • A declined card at a restaurant turns into Rosie's warning to listeners to keep their own account and get involved with their finances, and to the couple naming financial abuse as a real thing later in the episode.7:22
  • Chris explains why a family-resort holiday is not a holiday: watching other people's children round the pool like an unpaid lifeguard for a week, and the buffet's waffles, marshmallows and syrup guaranteeing a sugar crash an hour and a half later.15:09
  • Chris plugs his tour, which goes out on September the 10th through Norwich, Ipswich, Stoke, Liverpool, Sunderland and on into October, with tickets at ChrisRamsayComedy.com.22:17
  • The holiday's low point was the night Rosie was violently ill and filled a waste-paper bin the size of a large popcorn bucket, which they have narrowed down to the handful she took from the communal nut bowl at the five-star hotel.34:40
Key Quote
“leaving everything to your other half stop stop now get involved with your finances”
— Rosie Ramsey7:33
Key Quote
“but i have to watch other people's kids being a pair of dick being a collection of dickheads as well”
— Christopher Ramsey15:40
Key Quote
“You've got three days left, son.”
— Rosie Ramsey19:19