043: 3 Ways to Get More Love
The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle
Laura Doyle
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Does it feel as if no matter how hard you work, your husband doesn't give you the appreciation you deserve? Instead of telling him about all of the things you do to make his life easier, there's a better way to get his recognition. On today's episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast we're talking about 3 ways to get more love.
When my guest Jodie's marriage was drained of both emotional and physical intimacy, she feared that she'd never feel close to her husband again. Instead of giving up, she transformed her relationship into one that's warm and full of affection, and she's showing her kids what a happy marriage looks like. Today she's going to share how she did that.
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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 |
| 0:15.3 | that you feel desired, taken care of, and special. |
| 0:19.0 | Even if your relationship feels completely hopeless, I'm Laura Doyle, and today I'm sharing three ways to get more |
| 0:24.6 | love and appreciation. My guest Jody didn't have any hope that there would |
| 0:29.3 | ever be intimacy in her marriage because it had vanished both emotionally and physically |
| 0:34.4 | but today she not only has a warm affectionate marriage her kids are benefiting |
| 0:39.5 | from having parents who obviously love each other. |
| 0:43.0 | Next I'll be giving out the worst relationship advice of the Week Award, |
| 0:46.0 | which is all about keeping secrets in a relationship. |
| 0:49.0 | All that's coming up, but first, let's talk about three ways to get more love and appreciation. |
| 0:55.1 | When your husband's on the couch watching TV, or he's staring at his phone, while you're doing |
| 0:59.8 | the zillions of load of laundry, shuffling your kids around for the fifth time that day in carpool |
| 1:05.6 | or putting in long work hours. It can rub you the wrong way. Especially if he doesn't even |
| 1:11.2 | seem to know how clean underwear magically appear in his drawer. |
| 1:16.0 | It would go a long way to know that he sees how hard you work and he values it and appreciates it. |
| 1:23.0 | But it appears he has no idea. |
| 1:25.0 | He's not even aware of all it takes to keep your household running smoothly, |
| 1:29.0 | which makes you feel lonely and taken for granted. |
| 1:32.0 | You could tell him, but what would that... which makes you feel lonely and taken for granted. |
| 1:33.0 | You could tell him, but what would that accomplish? |
| 1:36.0 | He'd only nod and listen as long as he thought he had to before he could get back to the TV or |
| 1:41.2 | the phone. And then you'd feel even |
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