Welcome to the Empowered Wife podcast where it's all about fixing your relationship without your man's conscious effort

so you feel desire, taken care of, and special, even if your relationship feels completely hopeless.

I'm Laura Doyle and today I'm sharing three ways to fix a broken marriage. My guest Martha's husband was withdrawn and

always looking at his phone. She already felt like a single mother so when he took a job out of town she felt abandoned.

But now the changes she only dreamed of in her marriage have become reality. She has a playful attentive protective

husband who asks her out on dates. She's going to describe what she did that

made her whole family better. Then I'll be giving out the worst relationship advice of the

Week Award which is making my nostrils flare and my eyes roll out of my head. All that is

coming up but first let's talk about three ways to fix a broken marriage.

How do you fix your marriage when it's been so hard for so long that you just don't feel like trying anymore?

If you were one of the blog readers who asked that question last week, you reminded me of how exhausting that is.

It's awful.

When you're already drained, the idea that there's one more thing you need to do to fix the relationship makes you want to go back to bed,

especially when you know that most of the problems are with your partner's attitude and

actions or lack thereof.

You've been working hard to heal your relationship

and being honest about what you need from him,

but he never changes and it's very lonely.

That's how I felt over 20 years ago, but I haven't felt that way in a long time.

Here's how I fixed my broken marriage without wearing myself out and doing more exhausting work.

Number one, getting the right information.

I spend a lot of time implementing well-meaning

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