062: How to Stop Compromising and What to Do Instead

The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle

Laura Doyle

Education, Relationships, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Many believe that knowing how to compromise is an important part of marriage. But what if you've been compromising with your husband for years and things aren't getting any better? On today's episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast we're talking about how to stop compromising and what to do instead.

My guest Britny's marriage felt beyond repair because of infidelity on both parts and separation. He was so cold and hurtful to her that she wasn't convinced there was anything to save. But today she says her marriage is better than ever, and that her husband is continuously telling her sweet things and how amazing she is. They are truly happy and close! She's going to tell us how she did that.

The Worst Relationship Advice of the Week comes from the co-worker of one of my students and is truly cruel and judgmental.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Empowered Wife podcast where it's all about fixing your relationship without
0:13.6	your man's conscious effort so that you can feel desired and taking care of and
0:17.8	special even if your relationship feels completely hopeless. I'm Laura Doyle and today I'm talking
0:24.5	about how to stop compromising and what to do instead. My guest Brittany's
0:29.7	marriage felt beyond repair because of infidelity on both parts and a separation.
0:35.3	He was so cold and hurtful to her that she wasn't convinced there was anything to save.
0:40.4	But today, she says, her marriage is better than ever and that her husband is continuously telling her sweet things and telling her how amazing she is.
0:49.6	They are truly happy and close.
0:52.2	She's going to tell us how she did that. Then I'll be giving
0:55.2	out the worst relationship advice of the Week Award, which one of my students got from her
0:59.3	co-worker when she shared her hopes and fears about her marriage with him.
1:03.8	You don't want to be like this student's coworker.
1:07.7	All that is coming up, but first let's talk about how to stop compromising and what to do instead. Some friends of mine couldn't agree about the
1:16.2	color for the kitchen cabinets. He wanted white cabinets and she wanted dark cabinets. So they
1:22.2	compromised and got gray cabinets and then nobody was
1:26.1	happy. And isn't that just the way with compromising? Sometimes it seems like nobody gets what they want.
1:33.2	It's lose lose instead of win-win.
1:36.5	Everybody says you have to compromise to get along in marriage,
1:39.6	but I haven't compromised in my marriage
1:41.9	for over two decades.
1:44.0	Neither has my husband and we get along pretty darn well.
1:49.0	How is that possible?
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