223: Signs Your Husband Resents You (And What to Do)

The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle

Laura Doyle

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🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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When your husband resents you, the tension is so uncomfortable, especially if he’s just scowling or hiding in his cave and being silent, ignoring you, neglecting you. It would be nice if he’d just come out with it and tell you he resents you and WHY. Then you’d know exactly where you stand instead of wondering what’s going to happen. You could make plans, defend yourself, or find a way to make him stop resenting you. You could look for the words to have him reevaluate, including that it’s not good for him to hold a grudge against his wife! The scowling, neglect, and silence are all pretty good signs that he resents you, right? But what if he’s not resentful at all? On today’s episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, we’re talking about what to do if you see these signs—and 3 common challenges that could be the real problem.

And, the tension was high for my guest Jane too. She was not controlling at all—she was just trying to help her husband! But that wasn’t going over well. Then she made a decision to do this one thing, which led to great peace and happiness in her marriage and in herself. 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	What happens all the time is not a major breakdown,
0:08.0	but little minor breakdowns all the time,
0:12.0	even in the, you know know after a few months and where you just had the
0:16.9	karma was bad in the house and it was quiet and you kind of felt like you know
0:21.0	you're walking on tippy toes and it was awful and I every time I would go back to like okay what went wrong here and I go back and I'd see the mistake that I made and was able, you know, according to the skills I learned in your book, either I
0:38.0	criticized what he was wearing or I told him where to turn or some little thing and I can go back.
0:43.8	In fact it just happened on Sunday.
0:45.2	I was out in the backyard fishing and he was watching me from the glass windows and
0:51.4	he came out and said something to me on my way back into the house and I said,
0:56.0	well, he better not, oh, he said, I'll come out and fish with you next time.
1:00.0	And instead of saying, oh, wonderful, which is my normal response, I love that.
1:05.6	I said, that would be great as long as you remember to pull your pants up, the top of your undies are showing. And I tugged on a little bit and left.
1:15.3	Within two hours, I thought we were fine.
1:18.4	But then two hours, I sat down at the kitchen table
1:21.0	and was kind of wanting to talk to him, and he looked at me and he goes, what?
1:24.7	And he's never snappy unless I've done something wrong.
1:28.8	I dialed it back.
1:29.8	I realized I had said something in the morning, even though he didn't get bad.
1:33.6	He held it, and I had to make it right.
1:38.4	So what did you say to make it right?
1:41.2	I just said, oh? I just said oh I just said I just have to apologize for being overly
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