203: How to Fix a Struggling Marriage to a Bipolar Husband

The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle

Laura Doyle

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🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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It’s so dreary to find out you're married to someone with bouts of exhaustion and depression interspersed with manic behavior. It feels like bait and switch. How are you ever going to have a great partnership when there are just those two extremes and nothing in the middle, no normal husband behavior? It’s scary because not only are you married to someone who can’t always be a good partner to you, it sucks up your time and energy trying to care for him. Instead of a playful, passionate marriage, you’re left with a stressful burden. Ugh! But it doesn’t have to be that way. You too can be a ridiculously happy wife, even if your husband is bonafide bipolar. On today’s episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, we’re talking about how to fix a marriage to a husband who has bipolar disorder.

My guest Joanne was desperate to avoid the pain of another divorce at any cost but didn’t know where to start since the breakdown was mostly her husband’s fault. She had some unpleasant realizations and started to do a few things differently, and he responded beautifully. Today her marriage is calm, peaceful, and respectful on both sides. She’s going to tell us how she did it so you can do it too!

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0:00.0	today on the Empowered Wife podcast.
0:03.0	I like to say that it was the best of times
0:06.0	and it was the worst of times.
0:08.0	So we would have these incredible great times and then really bad times.
0:13.2	Welcome to the Empowered Wife podcast where it's all about fixing your relationship
0:20.8	without your man's conscious effort so that you feel desired,
0:24.7	taking care of, and special, even if your relationship feels hopeless.
0:29.2	Today we're talking about how to fix a marriage to a bipolar husband.
0:34.4	My guest Joanne was desperate to avoid the pain
0:38.3	of another divorce at any cost.
0:41.6	But she didn't know where to start since the breakdown was mostly her husband's fault.
0:46.6	She had some unpleasant realizations and started to do some things differently and her husband
0:52.4	responded beautifully. Today her marriage is calm,
0:56.4	peaceful and respectful on both sides. She's going to tell us how she did it so you can do it too. But first let's talk about how to fix a marriage to a bipolar
1:05.9	husband because it feels so dreary to find out you're married to someone with bouts of exhaustion and depression
1:14.3	interspersed with manic behavior. It feels like bait and switch. I mean how are you
1:20.6	ever going to have a great relationship when there are just those two extremes and nothing in the middle?
1:27.0	No normal husband behavior?
1:30.0	It's scary because not only are you married to someone who can't really be a good partner to you,
1:36.0	it sucks up your time and energy trying to care for him.
1:39.0	So instead of a playful, passionate marriage, you're left with a stressful burden.
1:45.0	Ugh, but it doesn't have to be that way. You too can be a ridiculously happy wife,
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