I believe in psychics - my husband thinks it's claptrap. So could an 'energy reading' be the key to sprucing up our marriage after 20 years together? By Julie Cook Published: 12:10, 25 July 2024 | Updated: 12:10, 25 July 2024 e-mail View comments No matter how much you love a man, after 15 years of marriage – and 20 years together – the things that once struck you as endearing little habits tend to make you want to grind your teeth. That’s how it is for me and my husband, Cornel.

We have a good relationship, but there’s not much swooning these days. He was once the spontaneous one, strutting through life like a brave young buck. Now he’s more slow old deer, while like many women in midlife I have become increasingly stressed and distracted, and now barrel through the days at a thousand miles an hour.

We don’t need a drastic intervention – but we could do with a bit of sprucing up. So, offered the chance of exactly that in the form of a ‘couple’s energy reading’ by a renowned celebrity psychic, I was hardly going to say no. Julie Cook and husband Cornel tried out the 80-minute 'energy reading' session But Cornel had doubts about its benefit whereas Julie was more open-minded For £160 a session, US expert Kathy Fitz gives the equivalent of a marriage MOT – over the phone, no less – assessing whether you and your partner are still ‘tapping into your energy’.

After just 80 costly minutes, she promises couples will notice ‘an improvement in communica.