198: Lack of Intimacy in Marriage

The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle

Laura Doyle

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🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Lacking emotional and physical intimacy in my marriage was miserable. With no deep conversations, flirting, or laughing together, I felt rejected and neglected, NOT desired, which is something really important to me. What’s the point of even being married?! After the connection and playfulness we used to have, I knew what I was missing, which made it even worse! Thinking this is just what happens when you’ve been married a while didn’t stop me from wanting the intimacy back. On today’s episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, we’re talking about what to do when there’s a lack of intimacy in your marriage.

Plus, my guest Joanne was heading for another divorce. When she changed her approach to her marriage, her husband seemed suspicious. But now she feels secure about the future of her peaceful marriage. She’s going to tell us how she did it so you can do it too!

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0:00.0	It was Christmas Day, my husband passed a present over to me and I opened it up and it was a
0:11.5	a book and it was entitled the empowered wife.
0:17.3	And I saw the word empowerment and I thought, well does he not think I'm empowered enough already I already do everything
0:26.5	round here you know I'm a you know successful in my career, I'm successful mother, you know, X, Y, I listed it all in my head, it was all
0:38.2	going around, I was looking at this book and...
0:41.6	It's just an insult really.
0:43.0	Yes, that's exactly, yeah.
0:45.0	That's a criticism.
0:47.0	Yes, yeah, I thought, you know what, he's bought me this book because he thinks that I'm not doing a good job.
0:52.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:53.6	And I just looked at him and honestly Laura, if I could have frisbid that book across the route, I know this isn't bad and it would have hit him right
1:07.2	right between the lines I've been so pleased.
1:10.3	Everybody had been very satisfying. Yes. Yes. Yes. Very undignified. Well, very satisfying
1:17.5	Nevertheless. Yeah. Right.
1:20.0	Welcome to the Empowered Wife podcast where it's all about fixing your
1:26.7	relationship without your man's conscious effort so that you feel desired
1:31.0	taken care of and special even if your relationship feels completely
1:35.4	hopeless right now.
1:37.3	I'm Laura Doyle, and today we're talking about what to do about the lack of intimacy
1:41.9	in marriage.
1:43.6	My guest Joanne had gone through a divorce already
1:46.6	and did not want that again,
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