Welcome to the Empowered Wife podcast, where it's all about fixing your relationship without your man's

conscious effort so that you feel desired and taking care of and special even if your

relationship feels completely hopeless. I'm Laura Doyle and this is the how to be happily married to a

narcissist show. Today we're going to talk about what to do if you're married to an

extremely self-absorbed man or one with narcissistic personality disorder. My guest

Carol's husband was diagnosed with a narcissistic personality disorder and he was

so angry that a marriage counselor told her to get a restraining order.

So she did and they separated by court order, but she not only saved her marriage, she made it

safe and loving again, she's going to tell us how she did it.

Then I'll be giving out the award for the worst relationship advice of the week,

which you have heard repeated at least 1,000 times,

but what if it's just the opposite of what would bring you closer?

All that is coming up.

But first, I wanted to thank you

for all your emails and reviews,

telling me how much you love the Empowered Wife podcast.

And I'm loving hearing that.

I read every review on iTunes and they just make me so happy.

If you haven't reviewed the show yet, please do hop on to iTunes and write one because every review is precious to me, it's encouragement

for me, and it's a contribution to the mission to end world divorce, and it's easy to do.

Now, on to the topic of extremely self-absorbed men,

men with NPD, narcissistic personality disorder.

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