226: My Husband is Always Negative (3 Ways to Change That)

The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle

Laura Doyle

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🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Being around Eeyore all the time is draining and discouraging. How are you supposed to enjoy life when your man is constantly making gloomy comments and throwing cold water on everything? You might wonder when he’s going to snap out of it or look for nutritional supplements for him or sleep aids or a therapist to help him cheer the heck up so you don’t have to be around his apathetic self. But none of that works, in my experience. So on today’s episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, I’m talking about what to do when your husband is always negative, including 3 ways to change that.

Then, with all the blowups and cold wars, the temperature at Michelle’s house was getting colder and colder. When she experimented with just one cheat phrase, things got warmer fast. She kept going with the Intimacy Skills, and today her marriage is happy, playful, safe and loving.

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0:00.0	It was like before a holiday and we had our second kid and he's like sorry I'm taking one you take the other I'm going to my parents you figure out what you want to do.
0:12.2	Oh my gosh. Wait like like we're like split up for the day? I don't know. Welcome to the Empowered Wife podcast where it's all about fixing your relationship
0:28.0	without your man's conscious effort so that you feel desired and
0:32.4	taking care of and special, even if your relationship feels hopeless.
0:36.8	I'm Laura Doyle and today I'm talking about what to do when your husband is always negative,
0:41.8	including three ways to change that.
0:44.7	My guest, Michelle, and her husband were having a lot of blow-ups and cold wars,
0:49.1	and the temperature at her house was getting colder and colder.
0:52.4	When she experimented with using just one
0:54.6	cheap phrase things got warmer real fast. She kept going with the six
0:59.5	intimacy skills and today her marriage is happy, playful, safe and loving.
1:04.8	She's going to tell us what she did so you can do it too.
1:07.9	But first, here's what to do when your husband is always negative, including three ways
1:11.8	to change that because being around
1:13.8	EOR all the time is draining and discouraging. How are you supposed to enjoy life
1:19.8	when your man is constantly throwing cold water on everything or making gloomy comments.
1:27.0	You might wonder when he's going to snap out of it or look for a nutritional supplement for
1:31.7	him that might help, or sleep aid or a therapist to help
1:35.9	him cheer the heck up so you don't have to be around his apathetic self.
1:46.0	But none of that works in my experience. Well here are three things that will shift the tone of your home from pessimistic to positive.
1:51.0	Number one, get silly. So he's negative. That's obvious, but let me ask you a
2:00.0	question, are you an optimist? I mean, they statistically live longer and make more money, so who wouldn't
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