281: Infidelity Smashed Her Hope

The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle

Laura Doyle

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🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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My guest Christina’s husband was drinking and smoking and hiding it from her. Christina decided to start using the 6 Intimacy SkillsTM, but then she discovered his infidelity. 😩 She was devastated. With only the tiniest glimmer of hope for success, she managed to set her marriage right. 💖 Now, she enjoys a deep level of intimacy with her husband, and there is no question that he is her soulmate and best friend. She’s going to tell us how she did it so you can do it too!

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0:00.0	My guest, Christina's husband, was drinking and smoking and hiding it from her, and there was
0:06.1	painful infidelity. Their problems were all his fault, but Christina decided to turn it all
0:13.4	around, and now they enjoy a deep level of intimacy, and there is no question. Her husband is her
0:20.6	soulmate and her best friend she's
0:23.5	going to tell us how she did it so you can do it too christina welcome to the empowered by podcast
0:29.6	i'm so excited to have you here today thanks for coming on thank you so much for having me
0:35.7	laura i am honored to be here.
0:45.7	Well, I always love to start with the bad old days. Tell me what was going wrong in your marriage.
1:01.4	Oh, man. I think everything was going wrong. We had just had a long few years where we had moved to Wisconsin and things were not going well.
1:09.4	We had lost trust of each other, and I thought that I knew better than my husband that I could solve all of his problems, that if he just listened to me
1:11.0	and took my advice about business and what he should do differently, that it would fix everything.
1:18.4	So, yeah, things got really out of control and off the rails.
1:22.7	Wow. So you were, he had some advice for him about his business and he wasn't receiving that very well, it sounds like.
1:32.2	And this was causing tension, sounds like, at your house.
1:38.1	Yeah, absolutely.
1:40.4	What are the kinds of things were you guys arguing about?
1:48.2	Well, I would get really nervous when he wouldn't come home on time and i would assume that he was drinking um that this was probably
1:55.4	one of those going to be one of those bad nights again and that we would have arguments. And so as soon as you walked in the
2:01.8	door, you know, I'd start questioning or just giving him a hard time for being a little bit late
2:07.7	when he got home from work. And so we just had this constant tension. And I was always looking for,
2:14.1	what is he hiding from me? What is not telling me and I acted like his mother
2:19.0	I thought I knew better and we just started creating this snowball effect of not trusting each other
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