Welcome to the Empowered Wife podcast where it's all about fixing your marriage without your husband's conscious effort so that you can feel desired and taken care of and special even if your relationship feels completely hopeless.

I'm Laura Doyle, and today we're going to talk about what to do

when your husband is nicer to another woman.

My guest, Jean's husband was the controlling one in their marriage, but things were so bad between them that their son was scared they would divorce and Jean herself thought her husband would leave.

But she made a few changes to the way she showed up in her marriage and today

Jean says that she and her husband are happy

and respectful and that they like to hang out together.

They have a peaceful and loving home. She's going to tell us how she did it, you can do it too.

And then the worst relationship advice of the Week Award goes to a cute story with a pithy moral at the end that makes it seem totally true, but it's totally false.

All that's coming up, but first I want to talk about what to do when your husband is nicer to another woman.

One of the worst feelings is when you're not getting much of your husband's time to begin with,

and then you hear his voice get all warm and happy when he's talking to the

neighbor or on the phone to a coworker or to the kids teacher. It's hard not to take it personally. Or if he's always texting a friend who's a woman and doing nice things for her, it's downright scary. Shouldn't he be treating you, his own wife, at least as sweetly as he's treating her?

Shouldn't he fix the cabinet at your house instead of dropping everything to go to her house to unclog her sink?

How do you tell him that he's being inappropriate and have him really hear you and stop

embarrassing you? Especially if you've already told him and he's acting like it's no big deal even though it's hurting you.

You don't deserve that, but how do you get him to give you what you do deserve?

Here are three ways to respond when your husband is being nicer to another woman

and you want him to stop that and be nicer to you.

Number one, stop giving her oxygen.

Of course, you wish you'd just stop paying any attention to her because that's taken away from the time and energy he could be spending with you.

But what if you stopped giving her air time first? What if you stopped

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