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, taken care of, and special, even if it feels completely hopeless right now.

I'm Laura Doyle and today I'm talking about what to do

when you're feeling rejected by your husband during pregnancy.

My guest, Sue, had a breakdown in her marriage even though she's a well-loved powerhouse relationship coach on the Laura Doyle campus who has been practicing the six intimacy skills for many years. She decided to get

coaching herself and manifested some big desires including making her marriage hot again in more ways than one.

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

That's coming up, but first let's get to what to do when you're feeling rejected

by your husband during pregnancy.

Because being pregnant is vulnerable and if there's anything you want when you're getting

ready to welcome a new baby, it's to feel secure about your future, to know that you're loved and desired, and that you'll be protected and taken care of. So pregnancy is a scary time to feel rejected and

feeling rejected by your husband always feels bad.

Pregnancy messes with your body so much that you can also feel like you're not very attractive.

And then he's less physically affectionate,

so you could assume it's because you don't look hot anymore in your maternity pants.

Or someone might tell you that you just feel rejected because your hormones are making you crazy.

So now you're not just rejected rejected you're also unattractive and crazy

and it's all out of your control so painful

but is that what's really happening?

I mean, it's possible.

But I know for me sometimes when I feel especially vulnerable,

that can trigger my steam roller mode, you know, Laura steam roller doil comes out and kind of just rolls over everybody.

And this feels especially justified if there is something really important that I'm trying to make happen

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