TV Scope: You don't have to feel guilty and I don't have to feel grateful. Thanks." Twenty-something year old Nicky (Lisa Hammond) is breaking up (temporarily) with her 40-year-old lover Chris (Mat Fraser).
Chris is already living with another woman who is currently making plans for a wedding and a family, hence Nicky's accusation that he has something to feel guilty about.
But why should Nicky have to feel grateful? Probably because she is four feet tall and has had it drilled into her that the sort of relationships which are available to others are not for her.
"Why should I have to miss out?" she asks her mother during an argument. "Because you're you, that's why," her mother replies. But Nicky is not the only person in the relationship who has a disability.
Chris was a Thalidomide baby and has the very underdeveloped arms which are found in persons affected by a drug given to their mothers in the late 1950s and early 1960s to treat morning sickness and depression.
Every Time You Look at Me subverts many of our automatic reactions to disability. One of these is being too polite to mention the other person's disability. But in the sex scene in Every Time You Look at Me, Nicky lingeringly kisses Chris's underdeveloped arms and his hands.
"Normally the person playing opposite me would go 'Ooh, what muscular legs you have, Mat' - i.e. you may be weird up top but you're still a good lad down there, aren't ya?" actor Mat Fraser told Ouch!, the BBC's disability website (http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/). "And I love the fact that we're not doing that."
Nor is there any attempt to portray the characters with disabilities as holier-than-thou.
Chris may be living with another (non-disabled) woman but Nicky has no qualms about jumping - well, climbing really - into bed with him. And she conceals from him the degenerative condition which will leave her in a wheelchair in a few years.
Chris also has few qualms in the cheating department. He dumps his partner for Nicky and then he dumps Nicky when her mother tells him the truth about Nicky's condition.
Mind you, true love wins out in the end and he goes back to her after a certain amount of soul searching and looking glum.
Some areas of conflict are avoided or played down in the drama.
Chris's parents don't put up all that much of a fight against his dumping his partner for Nicky even though they don't like it. Chris's school makes him deputy headmaster. Nicky's colleagues in the hair salon where she works burst into applause when she accepts Chris's proposal of marriage.
Thus, the issue of discrimination against people with disabilities in the workplace is sidestepped. That, perhaps, is all to the good: it's a love story, not a tract on the woes of people with disabilities.
The play originated in a 2002 series of drama shorts, called What's Your Problem?
Following the broadcast of the series, BBC2 commissioned one of the writers, Lizzie Mickery, to write a vehicle for Mat Fraser and Lisa Hammond.
The drama may have begun as a "disability project" but what came out at the end was what Mat Fraser calls a "good romantic drama that happens to have two disabled actors in the lead roles".
It is this - focusing the drama on love and sex - that can change perceptions in the majority of viewers who have no disabilities.
But to really change perceptions, we need television to start using disabled actors in mainstream TV dramas and series. As Lisa Hammond put it in an Ouch! interview: "If there were more actors with disabilities on TV then it would just be more accepted; there would be less ignorance because the issues would have been faced."
If you didn't see Every Time You Look At Me, catch it when it's repeated. You won't be sorry.