Then she got drunk at a cousin's wedding, broke every rule in the dating-for-keeps book and embarked on what she assumed would be nothing more than a dirty weekend.
If you're not ground-down by resentment and exhaustion, surely you've plenty of energy for dirty weekends away, date nights and keeping the flame alive?
After a dirty weekend with the wrong teenager, he ends up with virtually nothing, his life on the line - for reasons other than imminent heart failure.