Welcome to the Empowerive Podcast, where it's all about fixing your relationship without your man's conscious efforts so that you feel desired and taking care of and special.

Even if your relationship feels completely hopeless, I'm Laura Doyle and today I'm sharing five

hacks for communicating with men so they hear you and get you. My guest

Stephanie was willing to do just about anything to fix her marriage but she felt completely

helpless because her husband wasn't cooperating. They worked together so her

marriage, parenting and job all felt out of control. Then a trauma hit their family and

Stephanie did something she'd never tried before. It launched her into what she

calls a beautiful new phase of life. She's going to share exactly what she did to step

into that beautiful new phase. Then I'll be giving out the worst relationship

advice of the Week Award which sounds completely logical and even virtuous but it never ever

worked for me I'll tell you what to do instead. All that is coming up but first

let's talk about five hacks for communicating with men so they hear you and get you.

Everybody knows communication is the key to a good relationship.

That's obvious.

But what if it isn't?

I'm a good talker. I started talking early and I never really shut up.

Growing up, my sport was Scrabble. I even majored in communication in college so when there was a big problem in my marriage

just a few years and I knew it wasn't me who wasn't communicating properly.

The problem was clearly him. I noticed he didn't even like to communicate. He didn't

listen, he didn't want to talk, when I asked him how he felt he said hungry.

Exasperating. That's when I realized I was in for a long till

death do us part. Divorce started to sound pretty tempting to me.

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