“You get an egg timer and you each take three minutes to say how you’re feeling,” explains McCall. “The other person is not allowed to interrupt, to shout, to argue, to get up.

“They just have to sit and listen and try not to think only about what they’re going to come back with! Then they get to reply in their three minutes.”

The Long Lost Family advises that couples continue “doing this, back and forth, for at least half an hour” – even if they’ve run out of things to say. When this happens, she suggests that you sit in respectful silence until the egg timer is finished, just in case “that person might think of something else”.

Davina McCall says doing this will keep your long-term relationship alive