Completely Yours: real-couple stories and sacrifice
Crystal Joy explains her process: she asks couples to describe their relationship as a movie of four or five scenes, then fictionalizes them into novels about a hero and heroine falling in love, including breakups and tragic circumstances. She recounts Tom and Megan's story (married, wondering whether to divorce), Mary and Daniel's story (opens with divorce, then rewinds to how they fell apart), and long-distance couples Annie and Lucas, Jenny and Michael. The hosts react: real people behind the stories makes them ring truer than fairy tales or Disney movies. A co-host shares that his daughter, dating her boyfriend five years, faces the same dilemma after he joined the Marines and moved to Kentucky while she has a year and a half of undergrad left before dental school. Crystal's takeaway from interviewing couples: relationships demand sacrifice of pride, location, and family — exemplified by Sarah and Chris, whom she never met and researched through Sarah's blog; Sarah moved to England for Chris's Air Force posting, including the scene where she kicks a coffee maker that won't work on English voltage.
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