023: How To Manage His Mid-Life Crisis
The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle
Laura Doyle
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Is your man having a midlife crisis? So frustrating! I'll share the real reason he's acting that way and what you can do about it.
My guest Valerie was giving her husband a year to shape up or she was done. Then he announced that HE was leaving her. She'll share how she fixed her marriage and saved her family.
The Worst Relationship Advice of the Week which sounds pretty good but will make you resentful unless you make a small but important tweak.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Empowered Wife podcast where it's all about fixing your relationship without your man's conscious efforts |
| 0:14.3 | that you feel desired and taking care of and special, even if your relationship feels completely |
| 0:19.8 | hopeless. |
| 0:20.8 | I'm Laura Doyle and today we're talking about how to handle your man's |
| 0:24.7 | midlife crisis. I'm going to share the real reason he's acting that way and |
| 0:29.6 | what you can do about it. And unbeknownst to her husband, my guest Valerie |
| 0:34.0 | told herself he had one year to shape up |
| 0:36.3 | or she was done. |
| 0:37.8 | So she was shocked when he announced that he was leaving her. |
| 0:41.3 | She's going to describe exactly how that breakdown became the breakthrough to |
| 0:45.2 | creating the happy loving relationship she has now. And then I'll be giving out the award for the |
| 0:50.6 | worst relationship advice of the week, which sounds pretty good, but will make you resentful, unless you make a small but important tweak. |
| 0:58.0 | All that's coming up. First, let's talk about how to keep your connection, your cool, and your dignity when your husband is having |
| 1:05.6 | a midlife crisis. |
| 1:07.2 | If you've ever experienced your husband taking what looks like a sudden turn off of family Life Lane and speeding down immature selfish highway, possibly |
| 1:16.3 | in a new sports car, then you've probably suspected him of having a midlife crisis. |
| 1:22.1 | Maybe he stopped telling you where he is or suddenly he isn't |
| 1:25.2 | coming home at the usual time. Perhaps he complains that he's disappointed with his |
| 1:30.1 | life and wonders why he hasn't gotten what he wanted. He seems to be throwing away |
| 1:34.4 | everything you've built together. He's grumpy, depressed, and suddenly irresponsible |
| 1:39.8 | which is making you furious. No amount of talking to him is creating the desired effect |
| 1:45.1 | as he goes along on his self-absorbed way. |
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