Do you ever wish your husband would communicate with your kids the right way so that there's no

conflict and everybody's happy?

Maybe you've tried to guide him, but it's just not really working. If you'd like to have more

influence over how your husband and your kids interact, well my guest today

is sharing some wisdom bombs that you won't want to miss. I'm Laura Doyle, New York

Times best-selling author and I was the perfect wife. But then I got married. This

is the Empowered Wife podcast.

My guest Jiberia's marriage had lost its spark.

She found it difficult to respect her husband and her

marriage felt exhausting. But Gaveria made a discovery and now she is

happier and they are back to laughing a lot and feeling connected again.

She's going to tell us how she did it so you can do it too.

Gervaria, welcome to the Empowered Life podcast and thank you so much for coming on. I'm so

excited to hear your whole story. Thank you Laura, thank you for having me. This is just beyond, I don't know what to say, I'm just so grateful to you for giving me this opportunity.

Oh, fantastic. Well, I can't wait to hear the entire thing. Let's start in the battle days. What was going on?

So I want to start off with sharing with you how my husband and I met.

So my husband and I saw each other in person for the first time on our wedding day. And we were engaged for two years

prior to that. So it was an arranged marriage and my husband was born in India but raised here in the

U.S. and I was born and raised in India. Hence it was an arranged marriage and prior to getting engaged to him I didn't even know that he existed.

But my heart was just found that contentment and I felt that this is right and I was excited.

I felt this is it and in the two years of our engagement period we did speak over the phone once a week we

exchanged letters cards photos of each other through mail the old way and the

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