160: 4 Steps to Fight for Your Marriage When Separated

The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle

Laura Doyle

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🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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If you’ve ever been separated, I don’t need to tell you what a stressful, heartbreaking experience it is. It’s also awkward and embarrassing to have to explain to everybody what’s going on. You don’t want their pity or for the kids to get scared or start asking really hard questions. You just want to fix what’s broken and get back on track already. On today’s episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, we’re talking about 4 steps to fight for your marriage when separated.

I’ll share a four-step game plan that our students have used to make their marriages last and thrive after separation, even when he said he was never coming back.
My guest Izzy was devastated about her husband’s emotional affair and addiction to porn. He wanted to divorce when her maternity leave ended. Then Izzy made a big change, and things became dramatically different at her house. She and her husband now feel like a team, their physical intimacy better than ever. She’s going to tell us 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 marriage without your husband's conscious effort
0:16.2	so that you feel desired, taken care of, and special even if it seems completely hopeless.
0:22.8	I'm Laura Doyle, and today I'm sharing four steps
0:26.4	to fight for your marriage when you're separated.
0:29.2	My guest, Izzie, was devastated about her husband's emotional affair and addiction to porn.
0:35.1	He wanted to separate and then divorce after she returned to work from maternity leave.
0:41.8	Then isi made a big change and things are dramatically different at her house.
0:47.5	She and her husband feel like a team and their physical intimacy is better than ever. She's going to tell us what she did so you can do it too.
0:55.7	That's coming up. But first, let's talk about the four steps to fight for your
1:00.0	marriage when you're separated. If you've ever been separated, I don't need to tell you what a stressful,
1:07.2	heartbreaking experience it is. It's also so awkward and embarrassing to have to explain everybody what's going on.
1:15.0	You don't want their pity or for the kids to get scared and start asking really hard questions.
1:21.0	You just want to fix what's broken and get back on track already.
1:26.1	Along those lines, I want to share a four-step game plan that students who have stood for their
1:32.1	marriage used to make their marriage last and thrive after a separation.
1:37.0	Even if he said he's never coming back, it can be done and many students on our campus have done it and if you're
1:45.0	committed and courageous you can do it too. Here's how. Number one, forget your
1:50.9	troubles, come on get happy. The first step is the most counterintuitive, but it's also indispensable.
2:00.0	And the irony, right? I mean, while you're in the most agonizing emotional pain of your entire life,
2:08.0	the challenge in front of you is to get really happy. But why? Well when my marriage almost ended I learned the hard way that only
2:17.5	happy people have happy relationships. I thought it was the other way where my happy relationship and loving
2:26.5	husband would make me feel happy. Instead, I sucked all the life out of our marriage by getting progressively more unhappy and
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