The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle

It's so dreary to find out you're married to someone with bouts of exhaustion and depression interspersed with manic behavior. It feels like bait and switch. How are you ever going to have a great partnership when there are just those two extremes and nothing in the middle, no normal husband behavior? It's scary because not only are you married to someone who can't always be a good partner to you, it sucks up your time and energy trying to care for him. Instead of a playful, passionate marriage, you're left with a stressful burden. Ugh! But it doesn't have to be that way. You too can be a ridiculously happy wife, even if your husband is bonafide bipolar. On today's episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, we're talking about how to fix a marriage to a husband who has bipolar disorder. My guest Joanne was desperate to avoid the pain of another divorce at any cost but didn't know where to start since the breakdown was mostly her husband's fault. She had some unpleasant realizations and started to do a few things differently, and he responded beautifully. Today her marriage is calm, peaceful, and respectful on both sides. She's going to tell us how she did it so you can do it too! Download the FREE Adored Wife Roadmap now and start transforming your relationship today! Click here: lauradoyle.org/roadmap Here's what you'll get: 6 SIMPLE steps to bring back playfulness, passion, and connection to your marriage. The 3 COMMON mistakes wives make when trying to fix things (and how to avoid them!). A clear, actionable plan to create the joyful, loving marriage you deserve. Don't wait—your playful, passionate marriage is just one click away. Get started now: lauradoyle.org/roadmap

Part of why you decided to go all in and commit to your man is because he made you feel special. So when you see your husband checking out other women, it's not only disappointing, it can be threatening. That's not the agreement you had when he said you were the most wonderful, amazing woman in the world. It can make you angry if he's looking at another woman in an obvious way. It can be embarrassing and make you feel insignificant. You shouldn't have to feel that way with your man! So what gives? Why is it so difficult for a man to just be respectful and only look at you and not at other women? On today's episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, we're talking about why men look at other women. Plus, my guest Krystin was devastated when her husband moved out without even telling her. That's when she found the Intimacy Skills and had an unexpected twist on her journey to becoming a ridiculously happy wife. She'll tell us what she did so you can do it too. Download the FREE Adored Wife Roadmap now and start transforming your relationship today! Click here: lauradoyle.org/roadmap Here's what you'll get: 6 SIMPLE steps to bring back playfulness, passion, and connection to your marriage. The 3 COMMON mistakes wives make when trying to fix things (and how to avoid them!). A clear, actionable plan to create the joyful, loving marriage you deserve. Don't wait—your playful, passionate marriage is just one click away. Get started now: lauradoyle.org/roadmap

Exploring the challenges of loveless marriages, the discussion reveals three actionable steps to revive intimacy and joy. Personal stories highlight the transformative power of six essential skills that reignite passion and connection. A guest shares her heartbreaking journey through separation and the changes that led to a peaceful, fulfilled partnership. The importance of vulnerability, effective communication, and community support is emphasized, along with the benefits of coaching in restoring love and happiness in relationships.

This is the 200th episode of the Empowered Wife Podcast, so first of all, let's have some confetti! Yay! It's because of you listening to this podcast every week, many of you more than once, that it's been so successful. So thank you for listening, for thinking marriage is important enough to learn about and work on, because it is, and for the glowing ratings and reviews, and for sharing the podcast with your friends and family! I'm so grateful. I want to celebrate with you that we've been together for all these years, working on making our marriages stronger, staying inspired, and changing the world by changing our own families, making them strong. On today's episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, we're going to reveal 5 lessons from 200 empowered wife podcasts. I'll take you behind the curtain to introduce you to my podcast team and share their aha moments. My guests today are two master relationship coaches and two husbands, one of them mine! They'll talk about the top 5 lessons we've learned from doing 200 Empowered Wife Podcasts. Download the FREE Adored Wife Roadmap now and start transforming your relationship today! Click here: lauradoyle.org/roadmap Here's what you'll get: 6 SIMPLE steps to bring back playfulness, passion, and connection to your marriage. The 3 COMMON mistakes wives make when trying to fix things (and how to avoid them!). A clear, actionable plan to create the joyful, loving marriage you deserve. Don't wait—your playful, passionate marriage is just one click away. Get started now: lauradoyle.org/roadmap

It's annoying when you're trying to have a conversation and your man either clams up and gets cold or raises his voice or starts arguing with you. It seems mysterious why he's so riled up. If only he'd relax so you could have a normal conversation! I used to be so confused about why my husband would look exasperated when I'd made an innocent comment. It turns out that, without meaning to or even realizing it, I was offending him. I didn't think he should be offended! But now that I understand how, it's not surprising he was reacting so badly. On today's episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, we're going to answer the question "Why is my husband so defensive?" I'll share 3 embarrassing ways I unintentionally made my husband feel he had to protect himself from me. My guest Rachel studied the 6 Intimacy Skills™ before her relationship even started but found that practicing them in theory was very different from practicing them in marriage. Here are the adjustments she made so she now says she's married to the best husband in the world! Download the FREE Adored Wife Roadmap now and start transforming your relationship today! Click here: lauradoyle.org/roadmap Here's what you'll get: 6 SIMPLE steps to bring back playfulness, passion, and connection to your marriage. The 3 COMMON mistakes wives make when trying to fix things (and how to avoid them!). A clear, actionable plan to create the joyful, loving marriage you deserve. Don't wait—your playful, passionate marriage is just one click away. Get started now: lauradoyle.org/roadmap

Lacking emotional and physical intimacy in my marriage was miserable. With no deep conversations, flirting, or laughing together, I felt rejected and neglected, NOT desired, which is something really important to me. What's the point of even being married?! After the connection and playfulness we used to have, I knew what I was missing, which made it even worse! Thinking this is just what happens when you've been married a while didn't stop me from wanting the intimacy back. On today's episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, we're talking about what to do when there's a lack of intimacy in your marriage. Plus, my guest Joanne was heading for another divorce. When she changed her approach to her marriage, her husband seemed suspicious. But now she feels secure about the future of her peaceful marriage. She's going to tell us how she did it so you can do it too! Download the FREE Adored Wife Roadmap now and start transforming your relationship today! Click here: lauradoyle.org/roadmap Here's what you'll get: 6 SIMPLE steps to bring back playfulness, passion, and connection to your marriage. The 3 COMMON mistakes wives make when trying to fix things (and how to avoid them!). A clear, actionable plan to create the joyful, loving marriage you deserve. Don't wait—your playful, passionate marriage is just one click away. Get started now: lauradoyle.org/roadmap

The silent treatment can make you feel really bad and make you desperate to end the tension. It's scary and takes up a lot of energy wondering how long it's going to last, if it's still on, and if there's something you should be doing differently to fix it. It feels horribly rejecting when someone you love won't speak to you, answer you, or look at you—like a punishment with no end to the sentence. So what can you do when you're being shut out? On today's episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, we're talking about how to handle the silent treatment with dignity. I'll share 3 experiments to try if what you're doing doesn't feel so dignified and you want to shorten or stop the silent treatment. Plus, my guest Deanna's marriage was hurting from betrayal on both sides when she stumbled on The Surrendered Wife book and this podcast. She started applying the 6 Intimacy Skills™ right away and was amazed at what happened after only a few days. Today she feels loving and loved. She's going to tell us how she did it so you can do it too. Download the FREE Adored Wife Roadmap now and start transforming your relationship today! Click here: lauradoyle.org/roadmap Here's what you'll get: 6 SIMPLE steps to bring back playfulness, passion, and connection to your marriage. The 3 COMMON mistakes wives make when trying to fix things (and how to avoid them!). A clear, actionable plan to create the joyful, loving marriage you deserve. Don't wait—your playful, passionate marriage is just one click away. Get started now: lauradoyle.org/roadmap

Being pregnant is vulnerable. When you're getting ready to welcome a baby, you want to feel secure about your future, to know that you're loved and desired, that you'll be protected and taken care of. So it's an especially scary time to feel rejected. Pregnancy messes with your body so much that it can also feel like you're not very attractive. Then if he's less physically affectionate, you could assume it's because you don't look hot anymore in your maternity pants. Or someone might tell you that you just feel rejected because your hormones are making you crazy. So now you're not just rejected, you're also unattractive and crazy!—and it's all out of your control. But is that what's really happening? On today's episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, we're talking about what to do if you're feeling rejected by your husband during pregnancy. Plus, Sue had a breakdown in her marriage even though she's a well-loved relationship coach who has been practicing the Intimacy Skills for many years. She decided to get coaching herself and manifested some big desires, including making her marriage hot again in more ways than one. She's going to tell us how she did it so you can do it too. Download the FREE Adored Wife Roadmap now and start transforming your relationship today! Click here: lauradoyle.org/roadmap Here's what you'll get: 6 SIMPLE steps to bring back playfulness, passion, and connection to your marriage. The 3 COMMON mistakes wives make when trying to fix things (and how to avoid them!). A clear, actionable plan to create the joyful, loving marriage you deserve. Don't wait—your playful, passionate marriage is just one click away. Get started now: lauradoyle.org/roadmap

A coach recently shared with me that she decided to become a coach even though she didn't love her husband because she wanted to be kinder. She was actually guarded against falling back in love. Then she spent a year becoming an expert on the 6 Intimacy Skills, practicing them at the highest level with her classmates. She surprised herself and did start to notice what a great man she had married decades ago. And she came to a coaches' call recently to admit that, despite her best efforts to just leave him out of this, she was in love with her husband. So, if you don't want to fall back in love with your husband, do not practice the 6 Intimacy Skills with a supportive community and structure or you'll end up excited and happy to be with him. You'll end up with a romance instead of a roommate and co-parent. He'll seem sexy to you again. It's crazy, I know! On today's episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, we're talking about how to fall back in love with your husband. Plus, my guest Julie wanted her husband to change, and he just wasn't! With life throwing them some big curveballs, their connection was very strained. Then Julie started experimenting with the 6 Intimacy Skills™, and today her marriage is just what she wanted all along: a peaceful, fun and strong union. Download the FREE Adored Wife Roadmap now and start transforming your relationship today! Click here: lauradoyle.org/roadmap Here's what you'll get: 6 SIMPLE steps to bring back playfulness, passion, and connection to your marriage. The 3 COMMON mistakes wives make when trying to fix things (and how to avoid them!). A clear, actionable plan to create the joyful, loving marriage you deserve. Don't wait—your playful, passionate marriage is just one click away. Get started now: lauradoyle.org/roadmap

It feels terrible when the guy who used to trip over himself trying to help you is now interested only in staring at his phone or staying at work all the time. What a disappointment. Especially when you have so much to do and so many responsibilities because you set out to be partners but now he isn't doing much to contribute. Why isn't he supporting you and what can you do about it? On today's episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, we're talking about 3 signs he's not supportive. I'll share what to do if he doesn't listen to you, appreciate what you do, or do what you ask. Plus, my guest Jill was so unhappy that she left her 30-year marriage twice. There were lots of arguments, and her husband made her feel guilty when she spent money. But when he introduced her to the audiobook The Empowered Wife, she decided to experiment. Today they have a closeness they've never had. She'll tell us how she did it so you can do it too. Download the FREE Adored Wife Roadmap now and start transforming your relationship today! Click here: lauradoyle.org/roadmap Here's what you'll get: 6 SIMPLE steps to bring back playfulness, passion, and connection to your marriage. The 3 COMMON mistakes wives make when trying to fix things (and how to avoid them!). A clear, actionable plan to create the joyful, loving marriage you deserve. Don't wait—your playful, passionate marriage is just one click away. Get started now: lauradoyle.org/roadmap