GAMES FOR ANGRY COUPLES – GAME 4: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (PART 3)
“What do you want with me?” the Beauty asks. “I told you. To be my wife.” “That’s impossible.” “Why?”
“Because you disgust me.” “So?”
“You’re a creep.” “So?”
“You’re a pig.” “So?”
“You’re a beast.” “So?”
“I couldn’t stand for you to touch me.”
“You’ll love me someday.”
“Never!”
This conversation (or a variation on it) may be repeated several times over a period of days. At the same time. Beauty repels all of the Beast’s advances. However, he takes good care of her in other ways, ingratiating himself to her—preparing meals fit for a princess, entertaining her, tucking her in at night, reading bedtime stories about princes and princesses.
“If you think all this kindness is going to get anywhere with me, you’re mistaken,” Beauty says. “You still repel me.”
“That’s all right. I just like being nice to you.”
“I don’t believe you.”
“It’s true, my dear Beauty. You will see!”
After days of this treatment, he begins to win her over. Gradually she begins to fall for him.
“You know, you have a nice smile for a beast.”
“Thank you.”
“And you are a very kind person.” “Thank you.”
“Kindness is very important.” “It’s nice to have it appreciated.”
“Every beast has some good in him, and it’s important to cultivate that goodness rather than picking at the badness.”
“What a wonderful thing to say. I wish my wife had said things like that.”
“You’re married?”
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