032: How to Stop Worrying About Your Relationship
The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle
Laura Doyle
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever felt consumed by worry or anxiety in your marriage? It can be hard to make decisions when you're unsure of what the future has in store. On today's episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast we're talking about how to stop worrying about your relationship.
My guest Holly had read practically every relationship book ever published but still found her and her husband having the same fight over and over. After 30 years of marriage, she felt betrayed by his addictive behavior. Every weekend of theirs used to be ruined, but not anymore. She's going to share what she did to transform her marriage into one that's playful and light.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Empowered Wife podcast where it's all about fixing your relationship without |
| 0:13.2 | your man's conscious efforts so that you feel desired, taken care of and |
| 0:17.5 | special even if your relationship feels completely hopeless. I'm Laura Doyle |
| 0:22.3 | and today I'm talking about how to stop worrying |
| 0:24.8 | about your relationship. I'm going to share two ways to calm yourself and really feel that |
| 0:31.2 | everything is going to be all right. My guest Holly was suffering from betrayal |
| 0:36.0 | trauma. She and her husband were having the same stressful conversation every weekend, even though |
| 0:40.9 | she had read every relationship book on the planet. |
| 0:44.0 | Every weekend was still ruined and after 30 years of marriage he continued to break her heart |
| 0:48.0 | with his addictive behavior. |
| 0:50.0 | Now her weekends are light and breezy, even playful. She's going to tell us how she did that. |
| 0:56.0 | And then I'll be giving out the worst relationship advice of the Week Award, which sounds validating. |
| 1:02.0 | And that's always a fun feeling but this advice only leads to |
| 1:06.4 | squandering your power and influence in the relationship. All that is coming up |
| 1:11.0 | but first let's talk about how to stop worrying about your relationship. |
| 1:15.8 | When you're not getting what you need in your relationship, you want to know, are things |
| 1:20.0 | ever going to get better? |
| 1:22.0 | Or is this relationship just a huge mistake? Is your |
| 1:25.2 | partner ever going to change or is this problem, this pain that you're feeling |
| 1:29.2 | now going to be with you for the rest of your life. You just want to know what's going to happen so you can make the right decisions, |
| 1:36.5 | but since you can't control what he does, it's hard to know what the future holds. |
| 1:40.8 | The whole thing can make you apprehensive. I remember feeling that way almost every day for years. |
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