262: Verbal Abuse in Marriage [2 Mistakes to Avoid]

The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle

Laura Doyle

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🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

If you've ever experienced verbal abuse, you know how devastating, demeaning and cruel it is. You know how destructive it is to your self-esteem.

When that hurtful scenario keeps recurring, it seems the only sane thing to do is get away from that abusive person at least temporarily and possibly permanently.

But when that person is your husband, someone you’ve built a life with—sworn to love, honor and respect—and have children with, it’s not so easy to tear apart your family. But you don’t want to live with ongoing verbal abuse either! Nobody should have to live with that.

What if you could reduce the blow-ups? What if they dwindled down to hardly ever? Or even none at all?

I wouldn’t have believed that was possible if I hadn’t seen it in my own marriage. And now that I’ve also witnessed thousands of other women use the Connection Framework to create the same peaceful, even playful outcome in their marriages, I’m a believer.

You don’t have to take my word for it—you can see for yourself by experimenting in your own relationship. Learn what victims of verbal abuse have done to create peace, connection, and playfulness in their relationships.

Sometimes, such victims make one of two common mistakes that worsen the abuse. It’s shocking because I remember feeling so hopeless and helpless about this in my marriage, I was offended by the idea that I was making any mistakes besides having married the wrong person!

But I was making these two mistakes that were within my control to fix…

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0:00.0	If you've ever been on the receiving end of verbal abuse, you know how devastating it is and how
0:06.4	it chips away at your self-esteem. But what if you could reduce the number of outbursts or
0:14.8	even eliminate them altogether? It sounds impossible, I know, but I've seen it happen. And in today's episode,
0:23.3	we'll explore what victims of verbal abuse have done to create peace, connection, and even
0:30.0	playfulness in their relationship, so that you can experiment to see if it works for you too.
0:35.8	Ready to see for yourself if you have the power to make your marriage
0:39.7	safe and peaceful. Let's dive in. I'm Laura Doyle, New York Times bestselling author and marriage
0:46.5	mentor, and I was the perfect wife until I got married. This is the Empowered Wife podcast, where
0:53.7	real women share exactly what they said
0:55.9	and did to make their hopeless marriages playful and passionate. If you've been on the
1:02.0	receiving end of a rageaholics repeated outbursts, you know how devastating it is to be verbally
1:08.6	abused. You know how demeaning and cruel and destructive it is
1:14.6	to your self-esteem. It's the worst. When that hurtful scenario keeps recurring, it seems like
1:22.2	the only sane thing to do is to get away from it, or maybe get away from that person,
1:27.4	at least temporarily,
1:28.8	if not permanently. But when that person is your husband, someone that you've built a life
1:36.8	with and sworn to love, honor, and respect, and have children with, it's not so easy to just
1:43.6	tear up your family.
1:46.0	But you don't want to live with ongoing verbal abuse either.
1:50.6	I mean, nobody should live that way.
1:53.4	It's a tough predicament.
1:55.8	But what if you could reduce the number of blowups?
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