Are you exhausted from feeling like nothing you do is ever good enough for your partner?

Do you wish that he would just appreciate you and maybe even compliment you instead of constantly finding fault like it was buried

treasurer. In this episode I'll share two powerful ways to handle a critical

partner so you can finally feel emotionally safe at home and stop feeling like you have to defend

yourself all the time.

I'm Laura Doyle, New York Times Best Selling author, and I was the perfect wife until I actually got married. This is the

Empowered Wife podcast. If your husband makes you feel bad about yourself by

criticizing what you say, how you cook, what you wear, or how much

you get done, it can be really hard on your self-esteem.

Maybe you have asked them to stop nitpicking, to appreciate what you've done, or even to say something nice once in a while, instead of constantly tearing you down.

You might wonder if it's just a fatal flaw in his personality that he can't stop saying things that hurt your feelings. Maybe he just seems mean.

But no matter how hard and helpless things seem right now,

you can teach him how to treat you with a lot more tenderness and love.

You can bring out his best. That's what this episode is all about.

Here are two essential ways to inspire him to stop being so critical and truly see your gifts and your value. If you're not

familiar with the six intimacy skills yet, these two ideas are going to sound

counterintuitive like they did to me when I first heard about them.

And you might think, I'm not doing that and I get that.

It takes courage to even experiment with these ideas. I wasn't inclined to do it at first either.

But then I got desperate because my marriage was completely falling apart.

So that was painful and it was motivating.

And this is what worked for me and it's worked for so many other women too so I just

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