230: Are Compliments Important in a Relationship? 3 Ways to Get More!
The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle
Laura Doyle
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
If you're anything like me, you love hearing your man say you're beautiful and the best wife or you did a great job. If you’re not hearing those things, it’s only natural to crave some compliments. That’s just human. We all need to be seen, heard and understood, and compliments are part of that. Going without them is dreary and unsustainable, like trying to hold your breath. So on today’s episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, we’re talking about why compliments are important in a relationship—and 3 ways to get more!
Also, my guest Rebecca felt that her husband was angry and emotionally unfaithful. But when she experimented with the 6 Intimacy Skills, she immediately got a positive response. Today, not only is her marriage romantic and adventurous, every relationship in her life has gotten better. She’s going to tell us how she did it so you can do it too.
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| 0:00.0 | I have looked at his phone a few times and I would just try to find any evidence. I don't know why we do this to ourselves. Sometimes I look for any evidence of like infidelity or things that maybe he wasn't doing that I didn't agree with you know and so I came across like a little bit of some |
| 0:24.5 | conversations and I mean nothing crazy but like I just had felt so distance from him that it really hurt. |
| 0:35.6 | And I noticed that within myself I was trying to build those relationships with other men also because we both were missing that |
| 0:46.9 | intimacy with like we both wanted you know so I just remember kind of just breaking down at that point and I remember going to his office and just saying I can't do this anymore this way. I am so sad and unhappy. |
| 1:07.0 | Welcome to the Empowered Wife podcast where it's all about fixing your marriage |
| 1:15.0 | without your man's conscious efforts that you feel desired, taken care of, and |
| 1:19.4 | special even if your relationship feels hopeless. |
| 1:23.0 | I'm Laura Doyle, and today I'm talking about whether compliments are important in a relationship |
| 1:30.0 | and I'm talking about three ways that you can get more compliments. |
| 1:33.3 | My guest Rebecca was married to what she thought was a husband who seemed to be having |
| 1:38.1 | emotional affairs with other women. |
| 1:40.9 | She felt he was always angry with her, but when she experimented with the six intimacy skills, |
| 1:46.4 | she got an immediate positive response. |
| 1:49.6 | Today, not only is her marriage romantic and adventurous, |
| 1:53.8 | every relationship in her life has gotten better. |
| 1:56.6 | She's going to tell us how she did it, |
| 1:58.0 | so you can do it too. |
| 1:59.5 | But first, let's talk about why compliments |
| 2:01.8 | are so important in a relationship and three ways that you can get more. |
| 2:05.0 | Because if you're anything like me, you love hearing your husband say that you're beautiful or that you're the best wife or that you did a great job and if you're not |
| 2:15.9 | hearing those things it's really natural that you crave some compliments that is |
| 2:20.8 | just human we all need to be seen, heard, and understood and compliments are part of that. |
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