115: How to Get More Help from Your Husband
The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle
Laura Doyle
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2022
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
It's so lonely and exhausting to feel like the only one responsible for everything at your house. I remember how stressful it was when I was the sole breadwinner at our house and felt like I was doing all the housework and bill paying too. Talk about overwhelmed! And resentful. Not anymore though. Now I marvel at how my husband does so much and I do so little! It feels like he does 90% and I do 10%. And you know what's so strange? We're both happy about it. So much happier than we were in the bad old days. On today's episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, we're talking about how to get more help from your husband.
My guest Kelly had no help from her husband with their home or their children, along with no appreciation or empathy, no communication, and worst of all, no connection. She struggled with PTSD and her husband had a narcissistic parent, so they both had challenges from day one of the relationship. Then Kelly had an insight about how she was contributing to the nightmare she was living, and she changed it up. Today, she says her marriage is a dream–better than it was in the beginning, which she didn't think possible. She's going to describe exactly what she did so you can do it too.
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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 effort |
| 0:16.4 | so that you feel desired, taken care of, and special, even if your relationship feels completely hopeless. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm Laura Doyle and today I'm talking about how to get more help from your husband. |
| 0:29.0 | My guest, Kelly, had no help from her husband with her home or their children, no communication, no empathy or appreciation, and worst of all, no connection. |
| 0:40.0 | She struggled with her own post-traumatic stress disorder and her husband had a |
| 0:45.6 | narcissistic parent so they both had challenges from day one of the relationship |
| 0:51.4 | and then Kelly had an insight about how she was contributing to |
| 0:55.6 | the nightmare she was living and she changed it up. Today she says her |
| 0:59.8 | marriage is a dream better than it was in the beginning and she didn't think it was possible |
| 1:06.7 | but how did she do it now she's going to describe exactly what she did so you can it too. Then I'll be giving out the worst |
| 1:15.3 | relationship advice of the week award which is instructions to criticize your |
| 1:20.9 | spouse and then make them put a quarter in your jar. |
| 1:26.0 | I'll tell you all about this cock of Amy Konsam and we can make fun of it behind its back together. |
| 1:33.7 | That'll be fun. |
| 1:35.3 | All that's coming up. |
| 1:36.3 | But first, I'm going to share how to get more help from your husband. |
| 1:41.1 | It's so lonely and exhausting when you feel like the only one |
| 1:44.2 | being responsible for everything at your house. I remember how stressful it was. I was |
| 1:51.0 | the only breadwinner at our house and I felt like I was doing all the housework and paying all the bills too. |
| 1:57.0 | Talk about overwhelmed and resentful. |
| 2:01.0 | Not anymore though. Now I marvel it. My husband does so much and I do so little. It feels like he does about 90% and I do maybe 10% and you know what's so strange? |
| 2:14.8 | We're both happy about it. |
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