037: How to Cope With the Threat of Divorce
The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle
Laura Doyle
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
No matter how lonely or sad you feel in your marriage, the threat of getting a divorce is even more upsetting. How can you revive your relationship even if things are completely falling apart? On today's episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast we're talking about how to cope with the threat of divorce.
My guest Abby's husband left her four months ago and said there was no way they would be able to reconcile. She wasn't even sure if she wanted to save her marriage due to the hurtful things he said to her. Today, Abby's husband is telling her how deeply in love he is and the two of them have plans to start a family.
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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 |
| 0:14.4 | effort so that you feel desired and taking care of and special, even if your relationship feels completely |
| 0:21.1 | hopeless. I'm Laura Doyle and today I'm talking about |
| 0:23.7 | how to cope with the threat of divorce. I'm going to cover three ways to heal your |
| 0:30.5 | hurt, restore your dignity, and revive your love. |
| 0:34.0 | Four months ago, my guest, Abby's husband left her |
| 0:36.8 | and said there was a zero chance that they would reconcile. |
| 0:40.0 | He said so many hurtful things, she wasn't even sure |
| 0:42.2 | she wanted to save her marriage. |
| 0:44.4 | She didn't really think she could, but she did. |
| 0:47.4 | And her husband told her and his mother that he wants to love Abby deeply. They have big plans for their future together including starting |
| 0:55.4 | a family. Then I'll be giving out the worst relationship advice of the Week Award, which is a hope-crushing cop-out disguised as quote being realistic. |
| 1:07.0 | Ugh! |
| 1:08.0 | All that is coming up, but first, let's talk about how to cope with the threat of divorce. |
| 1:14.2 | When I was on the brink of divorcing my husband, |
| 1:16.2 | I was desperate to end the pain of constantly |
| 1:19.1 | feeling rejected and lonely. |
| 1:20.9 | I also hope to escape the financial chaos we were stuck in |
| 1:25.0 | and dreamed of finding a man who would better match me than the loser pants I had married. |
| 1:30.0 | Commence it was my husband's fault that I was so unhappy I managed to avoid looking at my own |
| 1:36.4 | contributions to the tension, the hostility, and the pain in my marriage. I was |
| 1:42.0 | sure I was the good spouse |
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