233: 2 Ways to Deal with a Partner Who is Not Affectionate

The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle

Laura Doyle

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🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 100 minutes

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It's such a lonely, scary feeling when your man’s affection dries up. Especially if there was a time when he couldn’t keep his hands off of you or he was always stealing kisses and putting his arm around you. I remember being so confused and worried that I wasn’t attractive anymore. I thought it was because I was older and out of shape, but that had nothing to do with it, I found out. I’m even older now, and all that easy loving is back and better than ever—like when we were falling in love. Now I know that I had gotten ugly, but not physically like I thought. On today’s episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, we’re talking about two ways to deal with a partner who is not affectionate.

Plus, my guest Jacquelyn was so tired of her husband’s porn and substance addictions, him sleeping on the couch and their sexless marriage. Then she made a decision to better herself, which was really hard at first. But today those addictions are no longer an issue, her marriage is amazing, and she feels adored and happier than she’s ever been. She’s going to tell us how she did it so you can do it too!

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0:00.0	today on the Empowered Wife podcast. The friend that was out of control came up to my husband and he was like,
0:09.1	he was like, give me my drugs. You took them. And I was, I heard it and I went up there and I was like, what are you talking about? Get out of here. My husband does not do drugs. Like you are way off your rocker. Like I gonna call the police like get away and then I just you know was
0:27.8	backing my husband up which is that that's what I was supposed to do I'm his wife obviously
0:31.6	I would know if he was doing drugs. And then his other
0:36.6	friend looked at me in the eye and he said, you need to just walk away. And I looked, I looked at him and in that moment I knew I was like he did do it in.
0:47.0	Welcome to the Empowered Wife podcast where it's all about fixing your marriage
0:56.5	without your man's conscious effort so that you feel desired and taken care of and
1:01.5	special even if your relationship feels hopeless right now.
1:05.0	I'm Laura Doyle, and today we're talking about two ways to deal with a partner who is not
1:10.8	affectionate. My guest, Jacqu Jacqueline was tired of her husband's porn and
1:15.7	substance addiction and him sleeping on the couch and their sexless marriage.
1:20.0	Then she made a decision to better herself, which was hard at first. But today
1:27.2	those addictions are no longer an issue and her marriage is amazing and she
1:32.1	feels adored and happier than she's ever been.
1:36.1	She's going to tell us how she did it so you can do it too.
1:39.3	But first let's talk about two ways to deal with a partner who is not affectionate because I still remember
1:45.9	what a lonely scary feeling that was when my husband's affection had just dried up.
1:51.2	I mean we went from being so close and wanting to sit together all the time and
1:57.3	holding hands to all of a sudden it was just gone. I had left the building.
2:03.6	So I remember being so confused and worried that it was because I wasn't
2:08.2	attractive enough anymore that I had gotten older and put on a few pounds and so it was like physically he wasn't
2:16.7	attracted but I'm even older now and all that easy love in his back and better than ever it's like when we first fell in love
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