208: What Is Emotional Cheating?

The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle

Laura Doyle

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🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

If you suspect your man is just a little too emotionally intimate with another woman, it feels terrible. It’s threatening because emotional intimacy was a big part of how you two fell in love to begin with. It could signal that he’s falling for someone else, which is not right. You shouldn’t have to fear that some other woman is having the connection with him that you want or that she might have bigger plans for his future. But where’s the line on emotional cheating? If he were clearly over the line, you could use the law to confront him. Then he would have to admit he is cheating and he’d realize that’s not the man he wants to be. He’d keep his distance and blow her off, like he should, and go back to being emotionally intimate with you and only you. But what if it’s not over the line? What if he’s just being friendly and there’s nothing to worry about? On today’s episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, we’re unpacking exactly what emotional cheating is.

Plus, my guest Maxine was grouchy and resentful that her husband wouldn’t do things for her no matter how creatively she nagged him. But she made some changes, and today her marriage feels really good. She knows he just wants to make her happy and that she has the key. She’s going to tell us what she did so you can do it too.

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0:00.0	today on the Empowered Wife podcast.
0:03.0	I complained a lot.
0:05.0	I wanted things to be done a certain way
0:08.0	and I wanted certain things done
0:11.0	and I wanted them done now
0:12.0	and I was not good with being patient at all.
0:16.5	My husband is very handy and so I just assumed he could just do whatever I wanted him to right when I wanted him to.
0:24.8	And if he would take his time to do something that he wanted to do or just relax I was very resentful of that.
0:36.0	Welcome to the Empart Wife podcast where it's all about fixing your marriage
0:45.1	without your man's conscious effort so that you feel desired, taking care of,
0:49.6	and special even if your relationship feels completely hopeless.
0:54.0	I'm Laura Doyle, and today we're unpacking what is emotional cheating.
0:59.0	My guest Maxine was grouchy and resentful that her husband wouldn't do things for her no matter how creatively she nagged him.
1:07.0	But she made some changes and today her marriage feels really good and she knows that her husband just wants to make her happy and that she has the key.
1:18.4	She's going to tell us what she did so you can do it too. But first, let's talk about what is emotional cheating.
1:25.2	And you might be looking for the line
1:27.4	or wanting to know the letter of the law
1:29.6	because you suspect your man is just a little
1:32.0	too emotionally intimate with another woman, which feels terrible.
1:36.7	It's threatening because emotional intimacy is a big part of how you two fell in love to begin with.
1:43.0	So it could signal that he's falling for someone else.
1:47.0	And that's not what you agreed to.
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