Welcome to the Empowered Wife podcast where it's all about fixing your marriage without your husband's conscious effort so that you feel desired and taken care of and special, even if it feels completely hopeless. I'm Laura Doyle and today I'm talking about the

step by step instructions for fixing your marriage. My guest Susette was having recurring explosive arguments and felt coldness and

distance from her husband. She was so lonely, but she made some very specific changes and today her marriage is fun, easy, and

full of cuddles and playfulness. Even friends and family members have commented on the miracle

in her family.

Her husband tells his friends to tell their wives to listen to the Empowered Wife podcast.

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

But first, let's talk about the step-by-step

instructions on fixing your marriage, because I have some exciting news.

When I first interviewed women who were happy in their marriages and asked them for their secrets,

they said these crazy things that didn't make any sense to me at all.

But I was desperate enough in my painful marriage to try what they said and when I did the things that they talked about that's when I got my miracle.

My husband showed up like the man who wooed me again, the one I fell in love with originally,

and he's been showing up that way ever since.

So their crazy ideas were actually the thing that worked to make my marriage playful and passionate.

I mean, who knew that women with actual happy marriages would know what actually works, right? This was a mind-blowing

discovery for me because what those women told me was so very different than what

I saw modeled by my parents who got divorced.

And that's no coincidence, right?

Of course, divorced people or unhappily married people aren't the best resource for information and practices that make a

marriage last and thrive. That seems pretty obvious, right? But what if your

parents broken or unhappy marriage was your primary

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