Two Corrie women in trouble

This week in Coronation Street, we've seen Carla's drink problem become much worse than a few too many glasses of wine after a hard day. She keeps a bottle in her desk and got drunk, then planned to drive to the bank for a meeting. Bad move. Peter managed to stop her and get her home. He then spent the night keeping watch over her when she called him up, even further legless. The problem is, she has made him promise to keep all of this from Leanne. As we know, secrets on soaps have a way of coming out of the closet at the worst possible moment to cause the most destruction.

Still, Carla doesn't really think she has a booze problem. She just thinks she has had too much pressure at work lately. Now she's lost Trevor and she's got to buy out Nick from the factory and her finances aren't going to take that one lying down. More and more booze aren't going to help and neither is leaning on Peter if she doesn't accept that she has a problem. Peter's a nice guy and willing to help, knowing what it's like battling booze. He has already seen how it can so easily ruin your life. But supporting someone so closely could create a dependency. Psychiatrists call it "transferrence" when a patient develops emotional feelings for the doctor. Could Carla be in danger of falling for Peter in her hour of need? It's a soap, what do you think?

Leanne has had a love/hate relationship with Nick for a long time. He hurt her badly when they were married so long ago and some of that still hurts. Every now and then, he seems to be able to push that pain button and it all comes flooding back. The problem is, so does the feelings of attraction she used to have. I don't for a minute think she still harbours any real feelings for Nick and I believe she truly does love Peter, no matter how much Nick tries to make her believe that Peter is dragging her down, treating her badly, using her and he, Nick, is her knight in shining armour. That armour might be shiny but he's a Black Knight, not a saviour. Leanne is the one that he let get away in his foolish youth and his arrogance can't stand that.

He thinks he still loves her, but I don't believe that either. It's old, unresolved stuff with a dose of guilt over how he treated her thrown in the mix with an even bigger dose of lust and envy over the happy family Leanne and Peter have with Simon. Now he's managed to get Leanne to manage the bar he's going to open. That's the same bar she and Peter wanted to run and it was her dream. Nick wants to make her dream come true. Powerful stuff. Leanne's looking at a wedding and a committment and she's never been very good at that in the past. Add to that mix, the man whom she used to love and who is making her dream come true and an inbred genetic tendency to stuff things up just when it's going well.

Is she about to get in over her head down that road to temptation? Is she going to risk everything she has ever wanted over a case of cold feet? It's a soap, what do you think?