053: How to Know if Your Relationship is Normal
The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle
Laura Doyle
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🗓️ 24 November 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
While we know that there's no such thing as "normal," it makes sense to want to compare our relationship to others. How can you overcome the shame that's associated with marriage breakdowns and discover if what goes on in your house is common? On today's episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast we're talking about how to know if your relationship is normal.
My guest Jennifer didn't fight much with her husband but still felt miles apart from him in their home. The silence was deafening and she wondered if they would always be so distant. Today Jennifer and her man are a team again and she feels taken care of and loved. She's going to tell us how things changed for the better.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Empowered Wife podcast where it's all about fixing your relationship without your |
| 0:14.2 | man's conscious effort so that you feel desired, taken care of, and special, even |
| 0:20.1 | if your relationship feels completely hopeless. |
| 0:22.8 | I'm Laura Doyle, and today I'm sharing about how to know |
| 0:26.1 | if your relationship is normal. |
| 0:28.7 | My guest Jennifer's marriage felt hopelessly distant, |
| 0:31.7 | even though they didn't fight much. They shared the same apartment |
| 0:35.6 | but there was no communication. The silence between them was deafening, but today she feels |
| 0:41.2 | taken care of and enjoys receiving lots of thoughtful gifts from her husband. |
| 0:46.2 | She says they're a team again and she's going to share with us exactly how she did that. |
| 0:51.6 | Then I'll be giving out the worst relationship advice of the |
| 0:53.8 | Week Award which is about what to do if you're married to a narcissist and it |
| 0:59.0 | made me spit my tea out. All that is coming up but first let's talk about how to know if your |
| 1:05.0 | relationship is normal. When there's a breakdown in your relationship, it can |
| 1:09.8 | trigger shame. You don't want other people to know what he just called you or how you've been sleeping separately or that he punched a wall or shook one of the kids or isn't coming home at night. |
| 1:22.0 | When you're scared like that, it's normal to want to protect yourself from judgment. |
| 1:28.0 | That means you can't compare notes with others to see if that happens at their house too. |
| 1:32.0 | You're left feeling alone. |
| 1:35.0 | If you did talk about what's really going on at your house, the person you share it with may tell |
| 1:40.7 | you that you shouldn't tolerate that behavior. They may urge you to leave |
| 1:45.8 | or question your judgment if you don't. The shame keeps you isolated in the worst way. |
| 1:52.0 | Most of us will go a long way to avoid that feeling of shame because it feels like life or death. |
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