179: Is Marriage Counseling Worth It?

The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle

Laura Doyle

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🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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If you and I have been hanging out together for a while on this podcast, then you already know how I feel now about marriage canceling, I mean marriage counseling. So don’t even get me started! Who even approved this topic for the podcast anyway? But there is one very specific kind of marriage counseling that I believe can help, which I’ll tell you about. If you’re wondering whether marriage counseling is worth it, it means you’re looking for some relief and maybe some validation that you were abandoned, duped, or abused, like I did. I dragged my husband to counseling so that the counselor could fix him and I could finally be happy. Of course, that’s not how you get the outcome you’re wanting. And that’s the real reason you go to marriage counseling, for the outcome. On today’s episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, we’re talking about whether marriage counseling is worth it.

Then, my guest Teresa was so exhausted from doing everything in her marriage that she became resentful and bitter toward her husband, who never seemed happy. She was committed to her relationship but felt like the only one who was struggling. Then she made a few pivotal changes, and her husband started to look at her differently. Today, the resentment is gone; instead, she feels loved and cherished. She’s going to tell us how she did it 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 man's conscious effort so that you feel desired, taking care of, and special, even if your relationship feels completely hopeless.
0:22.0	I'm Laura Doyle, and today's hot topic is, is marriage
0:26.5	counseling worth it? My guest Teresa was so exhausted from doing everything in her marriage.
0:33.9	She became resentful and bitter toward her husband, who never seemed happy.
0:39.1	She was committed to her marriage, but felt like the only one who was struggling.
0:43.7	She made a few pivotal changes and her husband started to look at her differently.
0:49.2	Today the resentment is gone and she feels loved and cherished. She's going to tell us how is about is marriage counseling worth it. And if you and I have been hanging out together for any length
1:06.2	of time on this podcast, and you already know how I feel now about marriage cancelling, I mean marriage counseling. So don't even get me
1:17.5	started. Who even approved this topic for the podcast anyway? But there is one very specific kind of marriage counseling that I believe can help,
1:27.7	which I'll tell you about in a moment, but first, if you're wondering if marriage counseling is worth it, it means you're looking for some relief.
1:37.2	Maybe you feel like I used to and you want validation that you were abandoned or duped or abused. I wanted sympathy and I wanted a
1:49.0	professional to confirm that I was right, right, right.
1:54.0	That's what I was hoping for when I dragged my husband to marriage counseling
1:57.0	so that the counselor could fix him and I could finally be happy.
2:01.0	Of course, as you know, that's not how it works. That's not how you get the outcome
2:08.1	that you're wanting from marriage counseling and that's the real reason you go to
2:12.0	marriage counseling for the outcome.
2:14.1	I mean nobody says to their partner, hey I've got a great idea let's go sit on a
2:18.7	stranger's couch and complain about each other for an hour and then have a fight on the
2:22.2	way home in the car.
2:24.0	That's not anybody's idea of a good time.
2:26.8	Now, you go to marriage counseling because you hope to get a happy relationship.
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