Earl Beaumont had agreed to let his wife look into couples therapy only reluctantly. In truth he didn’t put a lot of stock into therapy and had always felt that couples that needed a therapist to stay together were probably bound to split up anyway. But he loved Cecelia dearly and she was convinced they needed help so he told her that she was free to look but that he wasn’t committing to anything yet. He didn’t really like talking about his problems pleasing his wife and was still a little bit in denial about them. He told himself that they would work through things on their own and then everything would be fine. Sometimes he even believed that it was true.<br/><br/>When his personal cell phone rang with an unknown number he was tempted to just let it go to voicemail and see who it was but the impulse passed quickly and he pressed the button to answer the call.<br/><br/>“Earl Beaumont speaking.”