Today on the Empowered Wife podcast.

He planned a hunting trip on our wedding anniversary.

And one of the beautiful things I always loved about our marriage was that he always wanted me with him.

And I always wanted to be, like when we would go to do something,

we would do it together, or we wouldn't do it at all.

And I couldn't go because we had little babies at the time.

And so I figured, well, I understand you want to take this on as that's the experience and want to learn how to hunt and things like that but obviously we can't do that right now.

It's not and he went anyway and it was our anniversary and I was so I sat in my room crying that day for four hours and every time we'd have another fight about the distance in our relationship, I'd bring that one up and then, but as things, the fights got worse then one time I was in the hospital and

he had said he was going to come he didn't come and he was trying to tell me it was just a miscommunication or something of that and I was just like no, no, don't come.

I don't want you here if you're not helping supporting me and that you know if he got very angry at that Welcome to the Empowered Wife podcast where it's all about fixing your marriage

without your man's conscious efforts that you feel desired, taken care of, and special,

even if your relationship feels hopeless. I'm Laura Doyle and today we're

talking about what to do if your husband is addicted to porn and I'm sharing the

number one way to heal. My guest Melissa struggled with feeling emotionally abused and

there were a lot of big fights about money at her house. After she

implemented all of the intimacy skills step by step she felt like she had a whole life makeover,

including her marriage, which feels safe, peaceful, and exciting now.

She's going to tell us how she did it so you can do it too. But first, let's talk about

your husband is addicted to porn. What is the number one way to heal?

Especially if the physical intimacy has dried up and he is just not

interested in you. That rejection hurts and it makes you feel pathetic. I mean here you are competing with a two-dimensional

woman and you are losing. It's only logical that it seems like it's the porn

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