A COUPLES therapist has admitted she definitely has a favourite and it is the wife.

Although counsellors are, like mothers, supposed to treat all parties equally, Dr Joanna Kramer has confessed she secretly prefers one party over the other and it is the woman who made the booking.

Couples therapist Dr Joanna Kramer said: “The key to effective therapy is me working out who instigated this. It’s usually the woman that shows a willingness to engage, an acceptance of fault and she’s paying the bill.

“So I subtly favour her, giving her more time to speak, guiding the conclusions, giving little clues of my impatience when he’s banging on about ‘no intimacy’ and ‘never having sex’. She soon picks it up.

“Before long it’s just a co-ordinated psychological assault on the husband, tearing him an

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