271: I Slept With Another Man

The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle

Laura Doyle

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🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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My guest Marley and her husband had explosive fights, then she went home with another man. That led to a separation, and she felt the marriage was beyond repair.
But instead of giving up, she started saying and doing things she’d never said and done before, and then…he came home. Her marriage healed from the heartbreak, and now? He can’t do enough to make her happy. Marley explains how she made her broken marriage shiny and amazing, so you can do it too.

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0:00.0	My guess Marley shares the shocking mistake that she made that caused them to separate and nearly
0:05.4	ended her marriage. And she also shares exactly what she did and what she said to her husband
0:11.3	that brought him back home and rebuilt their marriage better than ever. Marley, welcome to the
0:18.7	Empowered Wife podcast. I'm so excited to hear your story today.
0:23.1	Thank you, Laura.
0:24.2	I mean, I'm kind of nervous because the number of nights that I have laid in bed kind of dreaming of this day is just there's so many.
0:33.6	And I'm so excited to be here.
0:35.5	That is awesome.
0:36.9	This is, yeah, we're doing a little victory laugh
0:38.9	here. It's exciting. There's a trial. So, but let's, okay, but let's start from the bad old days.
0:46.0	What was going on? What was going wrong in your marriage? Okay. So I'll probably take you way back
0:51.4	because we actually started dating when I was 19 years old. He was like 21 and we were kind of a while. Like we were we were partiers. We were drinking pretty heavily and you know things get kind of sloppy when when you're doing that kind of a thing. And there was infidelity earlier. So he actually cheated on me.
1:13.0	There was just messy stuff going on.
1:15.7	We would break up.
1:16.9	We'd get back together.
1:18.2	Like, I guess I'm going to be posted from the get-go.
1:22.3	But we were always still very, like, drawn to each other, right?
1:25.6	We kept getting back together.
1:29.4	And so we finally broke up for about six months at one point i moved to another state you know i was really thinking it was the
1:34.3	the end um and then we reconnected and i think in order to justify it to myself and to my friends and everyone everyone, because again, it'd just been so toxic by that point.
1:47.7	I really implemented a set of rules, you know, aka control to the maximum extreme.
1:57.8	You know, I had full access to his phone, full access access to his text full access to his location at all
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