153: 3 Tips to Deal with Relationship Doubts

The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle

Laura Doyle

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🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Everybody has doubts about their relationship from time to time. It’s painful when you feel like your values don’t match, or your husband is engaging in behavior that you never would have condoned, or his parenting is not at all what you see your children needing to thrive. What if such doubts make you question your own judgment about having said “I do”? It’s an exhausting and scary place to be. What if your marriage is a big mistake—then you should leave, right? But what if you devastate your husband and kids and end up breaking your own heart too? It’s a terrible quandary not knowing what the right decision is. It’s tempting to jump on the fence and stay there. But doubt is the devil. It eats away at the joy and connection you could otherwise be having if you could find your faith, and it pretends that you have no choice but to suffer or leave. On today’s episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, we’re talking about 3 tips to deal with relationship doubts.

With no physical intimacy for two years, my guest Irena and her husband were both miserable. The marriage counselor told them they had no chance of survival and fired them as clients. But things got a lot better when Irena made a discovery and ran with it. Today she says her marriage is exactly where she wants it to be—and getting better every day.

Plus, the Worst Relationship Advice of the Week Award goes to a T-shirt that a student was too embarrassed to take a picture of in front of her husband and kids.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Empowered Wife podcast where it's all about fixing your marriage without your man's conscious
0:14.4	effort so that you feel desired, taken care of, and special, even if your relationship feels completely
0:21.7	hopeless. I'm Laura Doyle and today I'm your relationship
0:24.4	feels completely hopeless. I'm Laura Doyle and today I'm talking about three tips to deal with
0:27.3	relationship doubts. My guest Irena's marriage had no physical intimacy
0:32.0	for two years and they were both miserable. his marriage
0:35.0	and had no physical intimacy for two years,
0:36.0	and they were both miserable.
0:38.0	The marriage counselor told them they had no chance of survival
0:38.0	and fired them as clients.
0:40.0	But things got a lot better when Irena made a discovery and ran with it.
0:44.5	Today she says her marriage is exactly where she wants it to be and every day it's getting better.
0:50.3	The worst relationship advice of the Week Award goes to a t-shirt that a student saw but was too embarrassed to take a picture of in front of her husband and kids.
1:00.0	All of that's coming up, but first let's talk about three tips to deal with relationship doubts.
1:07.2	Everybody has doubts about the relationship from time to time.
1:11.4	Like the time I woke up sick in the middle of the night after a trip to Tijuana and my husband's first response was,
1:18.8	ha, ha, ha, that was our first anniversary and I thought, what is this thing that I've married?
1:25.9	But I had much more serious doubts a few years later and they were so severe.
1:31.5	I nearly ended my marriage.
1:33.9	So I know how painful it is when you're feeling like
1:37.6	your values just don't match, or he's engaging in behavior
1:41.7	that you never would have condoned or his parenting is not at all what you see your children needing to thrive.
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