If your husband doesn't express his emotions or he just doesn't communicate with you the way you want

him to, you have probably wondered before. Is he neurodiverse? Just like my guest Sarah wondered the

same thing. I mean, can you even have a playful, passionate, happy relationship with a neurodiverse

man? Well, Sarah has that now, so let's find out

how she did it. I'm Laura Doyle, New York Times bestselling author and marriage mentor, and I was the

perfect wife until I got married. This is the Empowered Wife podcast where real women share exactly what they said and did

to make their hopeless marriages playful and passionate.

My guest Sarah was depressed, but also excited when she realized her husband was neurodiverse

because she felt she'd found the key to fixing her struggling marriage

after many years of trying everything else. But it was something else entirely that helped

her make her marriage loving, passionate, and full of possibility again. She's going to tell us

how she did it so you can do it too. Sarah, welcome to the Empowered Wife podcast. I'm so excited

that you're here. Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to share my story. Great. Well,

let's let's jump right in. What was happening in your marriage? What was going wrong in the bad old days?

Yeah. So in the bad old days, me, my husband have been married 14 years and I feel like it started off pretty tumultuous. Like we dated and were

engaged long distance. So like our whole relationship was long distance. I was pretty young. I was

early 20. So all these things were

like, oh, this is the reason why I married the wrong man. Like, we didn't really know each other. We

were long distance. We were from different countries, different cultures. And so as you mentioned in the

intro, I had what I'm calling like my false aha moment about two and a half months ago when I first started connecting all the dots and thinking like my husband might be on the spectrum, on the autistic spectrum.

He might be neurodiverse. And it was something I never thought. So from that lens, I'll share like the battle days from that lens of like what things he did that I was like,

oh, that's it. He must be on the spectrum. So like we were long distance. And so in these

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