Welcome to the Empowered Wife podcast where it's all about fixing your marriage without

your man's conscious effort so that you feel desired and taken care of and

special even if your relationship feels completely hopeless. I'm Lord Doyle and today I'm talking about the adored wife

roadmap. My guest Charlie was angry and confronted her husband about not helping with their

financial life and the lack of activity in the bedroom too.

Then they separated. But Charlie had an epiphany about how to solve the problems in her marriage and

today they are back together.

The physical intimacy is frequent and he compliments her all the time.

She's going to tell us what she did so you can do it too.

The worst relationship advice of the week award goes to a bumper sticker about what to expect when you're married, but it's got it all wrong.

All that's coming up, but first let's talk about the adored wife road map.

A student named G.G. once told me that she wanted to have intimacy in her marriage, but she didn't really know what it looked like.

She said, I've been married for over 20 years,

and I feel like I just don't even know what intimacy is.

And I knew what she meant. I was similarly baffled in the early days of my marriage.

Was intimacy just physical? Just another way to say sex.

What did emotional intimacy look like?

I wasn't sure.

Whatever it was, I knew I wanted to have it.

And although I knew I had experienced it at times. I really had no idea why that happened or how to create more of it.

I had no concept of the six intimacy skills or that there was anything I could do to nurture the intimacy.

I didn't realize I was unwittingly crushing the emotional and physical connection in my

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