047: The #1 Way to Make Your Marriage Happier

The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle

Laura Doyle

Relationships, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Do you find yourself wishing your marriage was happier? Many women feel like improving their marriage is an overwhelming task, but what if I told you there's only one thing you need to do to create a transformation of your own? On today's episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast we're talking about the #1 way to make your marriage happier.

If you have anxiety around your marriage you're not alone. When my guest Suzzen started making some changes, her husband responded with suspicion. As time went on things became calmer and now her home is one that's full of peace. She's going to share with us what she did.

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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
0:14.8	efforts that you feel desired and taking care of and special, even if your relationship feels completely
0:22.0	hopeless. I'm Laura Doyle and today I'm sharing the
0:25.1	number one way to make your marriage happier. My guest Suzanne was having a lot of
0:31.8	anxiety about her marriage and she bristled every time her husband
0:34.8	said you're not going to control me. When she decided to make some changes he
0:39.5	responded with suspicion but then the atmosphere in her house changed and became less defensive and more calm.
0:46.0	She's going to tell us how she made her home peaceful.
0:50.0	And then I'll be giving out the worst relationship advice of the week award, which came to one of my students through a well-meaning friend.
0:57.0	You'll hear from her why this advice was absolutely terrible.
1:02.0	All that is coming up, but first, let's talk about the number one way to make your marriage happier.
1:07.0	A student, Shauna, was upset with her husband when she got home to find the kids eating candy and playing on the iPad while he worked in the yard.
1:15.0	I just can never count on him when I want to go out, she said.
1:19.0	He says he's taking care of the kids and then I come home to this.
1:22.0	Meanwhile, another student, Jessica, was just as upset with her husband who moved the computer and a huge pile of cords into their bedroom, making it look messy.
1:32.0	Why can't he understand that? I like things to be tidy and
1:35.4	organized, she complained. And another student, Karen was equally irritated about
1:41.1	her husband coming home from work an hour later than he said he would.
1:45.2	He always does this, she told me, I'm just going to tell him how inconsiderate he is.
1:50.4	Of course, it's easy to see ways that each of those husbands had been irritating or irresponsible.
1:56.4	But it turns out that wasn't the real problem.
1:59.8	In each of these cases there was something else contributing to the tension in the relationship,
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