today on the Empowered Wife podcast.

One day, about a year ago actually, I was laying next to him.

We had worked on some home improvement projects that day and I feel like God really

laid it on my heart to just say, are you cheating on me? I didn't even, I did never cross my mind,

but it was just something that I said that day

and I never anticipated hearing the words,

yes.

Welcome to the Empowered Wife podcast,

where it's all about fixing your relationship without your

man's conscious efforts that you feel desired taking care of and special. I'm

Laura Doyle and today I'm revealing three ways to force your marriage to improve. My guest Ellen was

devastated to find out her husband was involved with another woman. She felt lost, but she decided to find herself again in a dignified way and she not

only saved her marriage she made it stronger than she could have imagined she's going to tell us how she did it so you can do it too. But first

let's dig into three ways to force your marriage to improve because that's

what I wanted when my marriage was really bad.

I just wanted to force it to get better through sheer will.

And that's why I made him go to marriage counseling.

I mean, I was willing to put in hard work and persevere of course because that's what I figured it meant to work on your marriage.

I always heard it was a lot of hard work. Marriage is hard work. Hard work. I heard that a lot. But the funny

thing is, it's not hard work now. It's easy. It's fun. It's light. But it was hard before I knew how to force it to get better. So I was exhausted. I was frustrated and I was impatient for it to change already

So I just wanted to know where to apply the force because I felt like I had

plenty of that and now that I know and my husband can't stop kissing me and is always bringing me tea and chasing me around the kitchen

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