289: The Only Thing That Works with a Narcissist

The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle

Laura Doyle

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🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

My guest Amy was close to giving up on her marriage to a narcissistic alcoholic man. With seven kids, she felt trapped, heartbroken, and in a very dark place.

But instead of giving up, Amy did something radical.

What she did lifted her out of despair and into the light of a whole new relationship with her husband. Now, she sees him not as the enemy but as her hero—and she’s stunned by how emotionally intimate their marriage has become.

She’s going to tell us exactly how she did it so you can do it too.

Whether you’re feeling hopeless in your relationship or just tired of doing it all alone, Amy’s story is a beautiful reminder that it's never too late for a miracle.

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0:00.0	My guest, Amy, was close to giving up on her marriage to a narcissistic, alcoholic man,
0:06.1	but with seven kids, she felt trapped and she didn't know what to do.
0:10.5	Then she did something that lifted her out of a very deep, dark well to find hope in the
0:16.5	light of a new relationship with her husband, and now she recognizes he has always been her hero.
0:24.5	And she can't believe how emotionally intimate their marriage is now. She's going to tell us how
0:30.0	she did it so you can do it too. Amy, welcome to the Empowered Wife podcast. I'm so excited to
0:37.3	have you as my guest today. Can't
0:39.4	wait to hear your story. Wow, Laura. Thank you so much. Thank you.
0:45.5	All right. Well, I, as you know, I love to hear about the battle days. I love to start there. So,
0:51.8	what was going wrong? Well, just to give some background first,
0:56.9	my husband and I got together when we were 15. We were opposites in so many ways. I'm sanguine and
1:04.6	optimistic and he's melancholic and brooding and I can be flighty and impulsive and he's methodical and grounded.
1:12.9	And I was a good student and he dropped out of high school. But we were magnetized together.
1:18.1	We were inseparable. We were best friends. But we were also still kids and we were immature.
1:25.4	And so as time went on, we still had a lot of immature habits in our
1:29.4	communication. Because growing up is hard. It's hard. And he struggled to see him as a man.
1:35.7	And he really struggled to see me as a woman. And that caused a lot of foundational issues for us.
1:42.4	So after we got married, we were 22, and we started to have kids, and the tensions between
1:48.3	us really increased. Our differences, which had attracted us initially, really became
1:53.3	repellents. We were just in these power struggles and constant competition. And we would work
2:00.5	through things, but then we just experience these cycles of happiness
2:03.6	and then disconnect and fighting in Cold Wars.
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