209: My Kids Don't Respect Me!

The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle

Laura Doyle

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🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

First of all, I don’t even have kids to disrespect me, so this could be a really short podcast because what do I know?! Sure, I know what it’s like to be disrespected by exceedingly short people. It is so frustrating because I can just pick them up and drop them on the bed while they giggle relentlessly like bedtime is some big game instead of the end of my childcare shift, which can’t come fast enough. I am the person in charge of them, the boss, and everyone knows you have to respect your boss—everyone but kids, that is. Food has to be consumed, bodies washed, pajamas put on, teeth brushed, stories read and lights turned off. And kids don’t seem to respect my authority about these things. Nagging, begging, pleading, and even bribing don’t work very well. I can’t make them obedient, which is very stressful. So on today’s episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, we’re unpacking what to do when your kids don’t respect you.

Plus, there was no joy or laughter in my guest Julia’s marriage, but there were plenty of arguments. Then she did a bunch of experiments and they worked! Today she feels a weight has been lifted and her marriage feels intimate and fun. 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	And then, yeah, one night I was after a forced money talk
0:07.0	because I would be like, we need to talk about this, I'm just, you know, not happy,
0:12.0	and, and he, I was just really upset and I just thought like is this the person
0:18.9	that I want to grow old with this I don't want to be with this grumpy old man, you know, he used to be so much fun and now
0:28.9	he's depressed, he's grumpy, he's angry, he snaps at me and snaps at the kids
0:35.2	his whole demeanor was just really like hunched and he used to be so much fun.
0:43.2	Welcome to the Empowered Wife podcast
0:49.2	where it's all about fixing your marriage without your husband's conscious effort so that you feel desire,
0:54.7	taking care of, and special, even if your relationship feels hopeless.
0:59.2	I'm Laura Doyle, and today we're unpacking what to do when your kids don't respect you.
1:04.0	There was no joy or laughter in my guess Julia's marriage but there were plenty of arguments.
1:10.0	Then she did a bunch of experiments and they worked. Today she feels a weight has been
1:16.2	lifted and her marriage feels intimate and fun. She's going to tell us what she
1:21.1	did so you can do it too. But first let's talk about what to do when your kids don't respect you,
1:26.7	which first of all I don't know anything about. I'm not sure how this topic got approved for the
1:32.0	podcast because I don't even have kids to disrespect me.
1:36.4	This could be a really short podcast because my imaginary kids that I don't have already respect me so much except when I want them to do
1:47.0	something in a hurry and I yell at them or when I force them to get dressed
1:50.8	when they don't want to get dressed or if I drop them off at
1:54.4	gymnastics camp when they don't want to go to gymnastics camp but I make them
1:58.7	go in crying every day for a week because hello I have to do some work and okay that wasn't my kids that
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