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The Therapy Crouch

25 Feb 2026 · 18m · 7 chapters

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Is This Cheating? Liking Bikini Pics, Group Chat ‘Banter’ & Phone Snooping

In short

Main points

  • Hosts: Abbey Clancy, Peter Crouch, Ross
  • Theme: Exploring complex relationships and dilemmas faced by listeners.
  • Format: An open and humorous discussion touching on personal experiences, listener questions, and relationship advice.
  • Abbey and Peter introduce the episode, discussing their health and voicing challenges.
  • Light-hearted banter regarding their current conditions and nicknames from listeners.

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Chapters

0:45

Nicknames and Banter

The hosts share funny nicknames and engage in light banter about their families and friends.

“I apologise, I'm going to whisper the whole podcast, but it's okay, just because of my air voice a little bit.”
4:18

Listener Question: Bedroom Struggles

A listener shares their concerns about bedroom issues with their newlywed wife suffering from anxiety.

“I know your voice, you're in a bit of trouble there.”
5:48

Advice on Addressing Issues

The hosts discuss potential solutions for the listener's concerns about intimacy and medications affecting sex drive.

“Well, I know there are various anxiety medications that can lower sex drives.”
9:44

Listener Question: Cheating Concerns

The hosts address another listener's concerns about their partner's disrespectful behavior involving social media.

“I was Des Lynham in Dubai when I was interviewing all the...”
14:01

Disrespectful Group Chat Behavior

Explore the implications of sharing revealing pictures in group chats.

“Someone bangs a picture of a girl in a WhatsApp group.”
15:55

Addressing Relationship Boundaries

Discuss the importance of setting boundaries in relationships and the need for open communication.

17:00

Casual Conversations and Life Updates

Engage in lighthearted discussions about personal life and health updates.

“Oh, your Lafros, he said, you went to the doctor's know about his back when he did the Ezra scan.”
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0:00Abbey Clancy: We had at one point not done it for nine months. All of this resulted in my mind spiralling about threesomes and couple swaps and either other women from both my work and her friend group.

0:11Peter Crouch: That's a bit too much to be told. Don't bend your bridges there, lads. You didn't need to know that.

0:15Abbey Clancy: We shouldn't have problems in the bedroom at this stage. This is something for 10 years down the line.

0:23Ross: It comes in about 13 years, man. Remember guys, if you're really enjoying this top quality content that we're producing, hit subscribe, it helps.

0:33Abbey Clancy: Ask me anything. Hello and welcome to the Therapy Crouch, Ask Us Anything with me, Abby Clancy.

0:41Peter Crouch: Me, Peter Crouch. Hey guys, how are you doing? Good, thanks. Feel a bit ropey, are you feet? Yeah, sorry.

0:46Ross: I apologise, I'm going to whisper the whole podcast, but it's okay, just because of my air voice a little bit. A star for effort though, soldier. I'll just do anything for this podcast.

0:54Peter Crouch: Yeah, anything for content?

0:56Ross: I'll bleed, bleed, therapy crouch.

1:00Ross: I feel fine. I just got a bit of a ropey voice. Which obviously, when you're a podcast extraordinaire,

1:07Peter Crouch: it's difficult. Might keep this one a bit briefer than usual then.

1:12Ross: Apologise. It feels like it's coming back a little bit. It's something that keeps happening to you. I know. I've always snuggled with my...

1:20Peter Crouch: You do usually voice a lot for anything. Yeah, I do.

1:22Ross: I do a slight thing for me.

1:24Abbey Clancy: You might have some nodules. What do you think? You've had a camera down your throat though, haven't you? I had that. I've had that as well. It's horrible. Have you ever had that? No. Because you know how much of a wimp I am. When I went to get mine checked and they just said, right, I'm going to put this camera up your nose and down your throat. I just couldn't believe it.

1:45Peter Crouch: Fucked up.

1:45Abbey Clancy: And I was on my own. And I was like, sorry, what? Pardon what? Yeah. Anyway, I've had one, you know,

1:52Ross: for my polyps on my nose and right down the back as well.

1:56Abbey Clancy: Yeah, that's what I had.

1:57Ross: Rinders.

1:58Abbey Clancy: Yeah, it's awful.

1:59Peter Crouch: Oof, no thank you.

2:00Abbey Clancy: No, thank you. Before we jump into the questions, we've still got loads of nicknames. They're coming in. A lot of people are saying that they love We Need My Dad on the pod. Which I don't know how much we'd be able to use because it's very, you know, it's not very PC.

2:15Peter Crouch: I hate that your dad freezes off a bit when you put a camera in front of him now. No, he does.

2:17Abbey Clancy: He does exactly what you do when we ask you to read.

2:20Peter Crouch: Yeah. It's like, he just can't do it.

2:23Abbey Clancy: No, me dad gets Tourette's

2:25Peter Crouch: and just says the most ridiculous...

2:27Abbey Clancy: Verbal diarrhoea. Says the most ridiculous things. Yeah. And you're like, what are you doing? But obviously, because I know him. But he gets really nervous. But it could be a good thing to get him on.

2:38Ross: I told you about the Watford manager, didn't I? I think this is brilliant. Have you heard the Watford manager?

2:42Peter Crouch: Go on. It's called Ed Still. It's called what? Ed. Ed Still. Yeah.

2:47Ross: Sniper's dream.

2:48Peter Crouch: Yeah. That was a good one. That was just, oh, it was creasing up. What are the ones we've had enough to listen to, Sam?

2:57Abbey Clancy: Okay. So on the subject of these nicknames, we've got another one here. I have a mate called Matthew Allen. We call him Matalan. Matalan!

3:09Peter Crouch: The harmless ones are my favourite, you know.

3:11Abbey Clancy: Matalan. It's hysterical. Hello. Just listening to the Valentine's Day special where you're sharing some of your nicknames. At work the other day, someone got called motion sensor light because they only work when someone walks past.

3:28Peter Crouch: The co-worker one's a good one. Cordless is a good one.

3:31Abbey Clancy: Love the pod and thank you for providing me company and laughter along my commutes to hospital each day. Hi both, love the pod and really enjoying nickname bits. Having worked in Liverpool since 1985 and being a scouser, I've come across some boss nicknames. We used to have this supervisor called the recovery truck because he used to get that wound up. He was heading for a breakdown. And they also had a Cinderella who's gone by 12 every day.

4:01Peter Crouch: Nice.

4:02Abbey Clancy: But I feel the best I've ever heard was the curly whirly. This lad's teeth were wonky. Only he could bite into a curly whirly and miss.

4:11Peter Crouch: Keep up the great work. That's a bit savagely.

4:14Abbey Clancy: That's hysterical. Oh, my God. All right, should we get into the questions then?

4:18Peter Crouch: Yeah, let's go.

4:18Abbey Clancy: Can we get into the questions? Please, yes, please. I know your voice, you're in a bit of trouble there. I'm okay. Okay, good. Hi, Abby, Pete and Ross. I'm a huge fan of the podcast. I never thought I'd need to email in, but I do now. I was super happy with my new wife when we tied the knot a couple of weeks ago, and I couldn't have asked for a better person to spend my life with. However, things in the bedroom haven't been as I'd hoped for. Sadly, she suffers from anxiety and takes medication for it, causing a massively low sex drive I find difficult to cope with. She's the only one I've ever been with and I feel my hormones are super high all the time.

4:55Abbey Clancy: I've tried talking but it normally ends in tears as she's trying to be better about it. I really wish we could try new things and do it in other areas rather than just the bedroom. All of which I feel everyone has done which sadly I miss out on. I have to plan ahead for SEX otherwise it would never happen. We had at one point not done it for nine months. All of this resulted in my mind spiralling about fantasising about different scenarios like stresomes and couple swaps and either other women from both my work and hair friend group.

5:27Peter Crouch: That's a bit too much to be telling me. Don't burn your bridges there, lads. You didn't need to know that. Keep it vague.

5:34Abbey Clancy: I don't know if this is normal, but it's definitely not to the level. I don't know if this is normal, but definitely not to the level I'm on. I love it endlessly. and I don't want it to be this way, but my head won't stop and I'm not sure what to do. Please help. Well, I know there are various anxiety medications that can lower sex drives. I don't know the names of them from the top of my head, but I think the first, obviously he said he's spoken to his wife about this and she gets upset. What I would do would be to go to the doctor and say, look, I need to change my medication because, yeah, you know, it's considerably lower my sex drive.

6:21Ross: It's so difficult when two people are on two different pages.

6:24Abbey Clancy: Like that.

6:25Ross: It's so difficult, isn't it?

6:27Abbey Clancy: Yeah.

6:28Ross: Like, you know, one's turbo, the other one's handbrake.

6:33Abbey Clancy: It's not really turbo and handbrake, is it? She's not a handbrake.

6:37Peter Crouch: Nine months is like a long time. I think that's something that's quite an issue, isn't it?

6:40Abbey Clancy: Yeah, but it's not like she's reluctant to have it. Yeah, yeah. She's obviously just hasn't got the desire to because of the medication. You know, certain medications can have various different side effects. And if that's one of them, she needs to go to her doctor. Because they're a newlywed couple. This shouldn't be an issue now. It needs to be addressed, doesn't it? It needs to be addressed. Yeah, but with regards to the fantasy part, what do you think about that? It's a bit macho, I think.

7:06Peter Crouch: I wouldn't mention that to her. No, I can't eat that. But I can't understand. If you're not having sex with your partner for nine months, that's a whole gestation period, do you know what I mean? How can I understand why you'd start fantasising about other people?

7:20Abbey Clancy: But not a mate and his co-worker, some bloody threesomes.

7:24Peter Crouch: It reminds me of that John Smith's advert with Peter Cade, and he's going, would you be on your list? And he's like, no, I'm not into that, I'm not into that. And she's like, no, I don't know, I'm into that. And he goes, Tina from your way? Yeah, Tina from the office.

7:40Abbey Clancy: that's even more dangerous than fancying like Leonardo DiCaprio

7:43Ross: I'm not much more obviously it's accessible

7:45Abbey Clancy: imagine if you said it's accessible

7:48Ross: it's possible Debra next door

7:53Peter Crouch: Debbie Debbie she can't go to the hospital or doctors without him bringing her up there can't she it doesn't sound like she's aware of the issue maybe

8:04Abbey Clancy: No, he said he's tried to speak to her, but it only ends in tears. I think he needs to sit down to her again and be like, look, we're a newlywed couple. We should, you know, we shouldn't have problems in the bedroom at this stage. This is something for 10 years down the line. Yeah.

8:20Abbey Clancy: 20 years down the line. It's about 13 years.

8:22Ross: It comes in about 13 years. 18 years.

8:25Abbey Clancy: Yeah, exactly. And I think it's a feasible conversation to have with the doctor. And even take him with you. Say, you know, this is having a really, what? Taking where? You taking it to the doctor?

8:36Peter Crouch: Just sit there, mate. Come on out.

8:39Abbey Clancy: Do you want hot chocolate?

8:40Peter Crouch: So what do you think? What do you want out of this relationship? Be a co-worker. Yeah.

8:44Abbey Clancy: You, doctor.

8:45Peter Crouch: Yeah. It's your best, mate.

8:47Abbey Clancy: No, but no, I think they should. It should be a conversation together to the doctor.

8:51Ross: Yeah. Yeah, because everyone's involved then.

8:55Abbey Clancy: Yeah.

8:56Ross: I agree. I think it's above our pay grade, if I'm honest with that.

9:00Abbey Clancy: No, she just needs to go to the doctor and say, this medication is destroying my sex drive what other options have you got this is how my husband's feeling we want to be a close unit sexually what could you do for us the GP can definitely sort that this would be a great question for our sex therapist Alex Fox who you've nicknamed the shaggy aunt yeah she loves her

9:20Peter Crouch: she loves her

9:21Abbey Clancy: she'll be on next week and she will I'm the nickname

9:24Peter Crouch: she loves her

9:27Abbey Clancy: because yeah this could be slightly above our pay grade other than to to convey to the G thing.

9:31Ross: It would be nice to hear some advice of her, I'd say.

9:34Abbey Clancy: So this seems like a great place to pause and hear from our sponsors. And if you're enjoying the pod, please hit that subscribe button now because it really, really helps us. OK, hi, Dubai or Des. Who's there? That's me, Dubai Des. What's that mean?

9:52Ross: I was Des Lynham in Dubai when I was interviewing all the... Do you remember I interviewed the PSG owner? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And they said, you're in Dubai. And I said, what are you doing? And I said, well, I was interviewing someone. They said, well, you're in Dubai. There's Lyon. Who said that? It was myself, actually.

10:09Abbey Clancy: No, me dad said it to you. That was me. Oh, was it? Yeah, of course you did. The Clans and Ross Scott. My question is for Crouchy. Having played for two clubs with legendary fan songs, which one got you pumped more when you heard the fan sing it? You'll Never Walk Alone or Delilah? P.S. Abby, if he picks Delilah, how are you going to punish him? regards to your family

10:30Peter Crouch: where did you play Delilah

10:31Ross: Stokes

10:32Abbey Clancy: Stokes

10:33Ross: big Stokes song

10:34Abbey Clancy: I danced to Delilah on Strictly at Stoke do you remember no I think

10:39Ross: like Delilah's amazing yeah it is and like when we've got a big game and that's pumping it is proper but it's just so nostalgic I think Neville Cologne

10:52Peter Crouch: yeah it really is

10:54Abbey Clancy: it's iconic isn't it yeah and I think it's just so global and like and the connotations

10:59Ross: yeah I think there are I mean there's some great songs that have been sung in a lot of the clubs I've played for but I think You'll Never Walk Alone is the one that on a Champions League night just really does get the juices going I have to say that Delilah is special for the Stoke game

11:17Peter Crouch: and there's quite a few teams who have You'll Never Walk Alone as their song as well so sometimes you get the perfect storm of when they're all singing it together and it's like wow do other people have that song? yeah Celtic Celtic definitely did Watford have it at one point no they got the Zed Cars did they think Watford they

11:34Abbey Clancy: yeah

11:34Peter Crouch: and then there's another team I was walking around what do the Tuffies have Zed Cars

11:41Abbey Clancy: you shit you shit you shit

11:44Peter Crouch: fuck yeah

11:49Peter Crouch: good one Abbey

11:51Abbey Clancy: I couldn't think of a better song with the word shit in so I just made up my own sorry to all you blues out there I don't mean it. I don't mind the blues.

11:59Ross: Do you know? No. Le blues.

12:00Abbey Clancy: I love Moise, don't I?

12:02Ross: No, you don't do that for Moise. Yeah.

12:04Abbey Clancy: Okay. So I went through my fella's phone. Bad move, but I know where we are. I found him liking the girl's picture he used to train. Here's a PT for context. The problem is... Shaga. Of her arms. I bet he looks crazy.

12:20Peter Crouch: I was just going to shaga.

12:22Abbey Clancy: Yeah, you're right. You are annoying me. Okay, so he's liked a picture, Pete, but it's not just any picture. It's a picture of her arse in a bikini. Second thing, I found his cousin message him saying, are you coming to the pub? There's three in here for you, uncle. I'm fucking out. What does that mean?

12:42Peter Crouch: I think it's just like the three birds here.

12:44Abbey Clancy: If that's not bad enough, he's replied saying, pick please. At that point, I'm just like, what the fuck are you actually doing? We've been together eight years. he's had girls muted on whatsapp before now clients yet i was a client and now we have two kids i just feel disrespected i also found a video of a girl's arse he'd recorded walking up by my house as banter he sent it to the lads chat honestly men need to grow up what do you think of this behavior am i wrong for looking at i am wrong for looking at his phone but i had a feeling he wasn't whiter than white asking for the picture of the girls in the pub is annoying and i would have been downstairs solo parenting at tea town while he's on his ninth shit of the day, i.e.

13:26Abbey Clancy: scroll on TikTok, thanks. I would get rid of him.

13:32Peter Crouch: Yeah, it's not ideal, it's not ideal. I'm trying to think of a way to look at a devil's advocate, but I can't struggle. Filming and ass walking. That's going to be illegal.

13:41Abbey Clancy: What would you do if one of your friends put pictures of young girls or girls in the groups and how would you respond to that? What do you mean by that? What would you respond if your friends put a group, a picture of girls in one of your groups?

13:53Ross: I think it's different if you're requesting a picture of someone. Then that's not right. Someone bangs a picture of a girl in a WhatsApp group. It's not to me, is it? In the group.

14:06Abbey Clancy: What do you think of that, Ross?

14:07Peter Crouch: Yeah. That's not your fault. No, no.

14:11Abbey Clancy: For me, this is highly disrespectful. It's hurtful. I agree with you. I'm not totally agree with you. It's hurtful, it's borderline cheating to me.

14:19Peter Crouch: How does she bring it up without saying that she's been on the phone?

14:22Abbey Clancy: I'd just say, look, I've been through your phone, you fucking dirty bastard.

14:25Peter Crouch: Do you want to rephrase that?

14:27Abbey Clancy: No. No. I'd just be like, look, I've been through your phone and you absolutely disgust me. Now I know the real type of person you are and it's over. I just think it shouldn't be allowed. Like, oh, it's men's banter and men are allowed to do this. And they're just not. It's hurtful and you have to realise the consequences of things like that due to people. I've got a new saying that I saw on Instagram and it really, you know, hit me hard. If someone hurts your feelings and they say sorry, that person who did hurt your feelings cannot expect you to just go okay and not feel it anymore. It's like breaking your leg.

15:12Abbey Clancy: It's going to take time to heal. Do you know what I mean?

15:15Peter Crouch: Where's the quote?

15:17Abbey Clancy: It's more of a sentiment than a quote. It's like, you know, if someone hurts your feelings and just says sorry and expects you to just be okay with it, it's not. It's like breaking your leg. It's going to take time. Certain things are going to take time. It's not an overnight healer. You say sorry and I've just got to forget about it.

15:34Ross: I don't know where this is. How's this relevant?

15:37Abbey Clancy: It's relevant to her because the things he's doing and he's just going to go, oh, sorry, it's boys' banter. But it still hurts. But, babe, I agree with you. I don't think that's right so what are we going to say to her I think she should get rid of him

15:49Peter Crouch: yeah confront him definitely he'll be shocked as well get him when he's shocked don't tell him about it that you're going to do it get him on his toes what the hell is this about

15:57Abbey Clancy: and it's also like it's all like the cousin acknowledging that he'd also be disrespectful to his wife do you know what I mean like knowing that

16:05Peter Crouch: yeah it's not discreet

16:06Abbey Clancy: yeah it's not discreet he must know that he's a bit of a pair of girls like if I send that to my uncle he'd be like what the hell are you talking about

16:12Peter Crouch: but imagine he says the same thing to you yeah it was pints that's what he was talking about I didn't even think of him that way because I could say that if my mate said there's three babies here for and I said that's not the round's possibility

16:22Abbey Clancy: but also

16:24Peter Crouch: yeah it's not

16:25Abbey Clancy: it's not going to be

16:26Peter Crouch: it's just my innocent mind

16:28Abbey Clancy: thinking that way but obviously he's a perv he's a perv I'd get rid of him it's going to be cause a knot but heartache

16:34Ross: you've definitely got to approach him yeah no

16:37Abbey Clancy: it's not you can't leave it unattended no she can't that's a real shame and I think if she doesn't want to split up with him she needs to set some boundaries and he has to you know prove to her that he's trustworthy and he'll have to rebuild it go to therapy definitely

16:55Peter Crouch: start a podcast start a podcast

17:00Abbey Clancy: alright Pete I'm going to give you a little break now baby make you a nice hot toddy yeah

17:03Ross: are they all talking loads of whiskey

17:05Abbey Clancy: loads of whiskey I was going to do loads of honey okay thought you weren't drinking no I've only

17:09Peter Crouch: he's back out the wagon he's been swimming

17:11Abbey Clancy: no drinking

17:12Peter Crouch: swim squad

17:13Abbey Clancy: I've been numb than Grafton. Oh, your Lafros, he said, you went to the doctor's know about his back when he did the Ezra scan. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He had something wrong with his back, like a few incidental findings in his back. And he got what I'm saying. So the doctor said, I shouldn't be lifting weights. It's not going to do it. Did you say I'm not to worry? I was like, well, number one, you've never lifted weights in your life above two kg years. And I was like, oh, does that mean I'm not going to have any tickets to the gun show anytime soon?

17:44Ross: You've gone, babe.

17:46Abbey Clancy: I've sculpted at the moment. So you're swimming. So he wants to swim because...

17:49Peter Crouch: Swim squad. Swim squad. Yeah, baby. I'll put the fours away. Yeah. In the pool.

17:54Abbey Clancy: Johnny's got his first swim squad tonight, actually. Has he really? Yeah. Johnny got in the swim squad. Amazing. I'm taking track to football. Yeah, okay. All right, well, guys, thanks for listening. Sorry, just a little bit of our, like, planning in there.

18:06Ross: And I'll be back stronger next week, voice-wise. Yes. See you then. Bye.

18:10Abbey Clancy: Bye. Ask me anything. Trevor. both another

From the publisher

On today’s Ask Us Anything episode of The Therapy Crouch, Abbey, Peter and Ross dive head-first into your juiciest dilemmas – and this one gets heated.


We hear from a newlywed struggling with intimacy after anxiety medication kills his wife’s sex drive, sparking an honest conversation about desire, frustration and when it’s time to get professional help.


Then things really kick off as Abbey reacts to a listener who went through her partner’s phone and found bikini pics, pub messages and lads’ group chat behaviour that crosses the line. Is it just “boys’ banter”… or is it borderline cheating?


From trust, boundaries and when sorry just isn’t enough, to iconic football songs and questionable swimming chat, this episode has everything.


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00:00 – Intro, ropey voices & “bleed Therapy Crouch”

01:20 – Cameras down throats & medical horror stories

02:00 – Nicknames chat begins (Matalan, Motion Sensor Light, Curly Whirly)

04:16 – Agony Ab 1: Newlyweds, anxiety meds & no sex

06:20 – “Turbo vs handbrake” & fantasy conversation gets awkward

07:40 – Why fantasising about people you know is dangerous

09:12 – GP advice & “above our pay grade” moment

10:14 – YNWA vs Delilah – which song hits harder?

12:05 – Agony Ab 2: Went through his phone… found bikini pics

13:25 – Pub messages, group chats & “men need to grow up”

14:19 – “That’s borderline cheating” & breaking trust

15:49 – When sorry isn’t enough & healing takes time

16:42 – Final verdict: dump him or set hard boundaries

17:00 – Hot toddy, swimming & gun show jokes

18:12 – Outro


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