291: Her Marriage Was Over and Not Worth Fighting For

The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle

Laura Doyle

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🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Anna's verbally abusive, alcoholic husband cheated on her and moved out, declaring he wasn't coming back. Everyone told her to move on—her marriage was over.

But Anna didn't give up.

In this powerful interview, she reveals exactly how she transformed what seemed like a hopeless situation into a loving, happy, and safe marriage. If you've ever thought your relationship was too broken to fix, Anna's story will give you hope and show you it's possible to create the change you want to see.

Discover the specific steps Anna took that brought her husband home for good and transformed their entire relationship.

Download the FREE Adored Wife Roadmap now and start transforming your relationship today! Click here: https://lauradoyle.co/4jSokQc

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0:00.0	My guest, Anna's verbally abusive husband, cheated on her. He moved out and said he wasn't coming back
0:06.8	ever. How does anybody come back from that with a loving, happy, safe marriage later? Well,
0:15.4	Anna did it. And she's going to tell us how so you can do it too. Anna, welcome to the Empowered Y podcast. I'm so excited you're
0:24.3	here. I can't wait to hear this story. I am so excited. It's going to make me cry from the beginning.
0:31.8	You, the backstory, is between you and God have been the best thing that's happened in my life.
0:38.2	And I truly would not have been able to survive without you.
0:43.4	So I feel like we've been friends, even though it's only been actually since I found you in September of 24, and here we are in May of 25.
1:01.0	Amazing.
1:02.1	Well, I'm so happy we're friends.
1:03.9	We've been friends since September.
1:05.8	So thank you for that.
1:07.7	Yeah.
1:08.5	So the bad old days, I didn't realize how bad it was until I read your books, but I'm going to tell you the backstory.
1:16.6	I met my husband. I was very young. I was 19. We started dating when I was 20, and we came from totally different worlds.
1:26.5	I came from a family that had a decent social standing in society.
1:35.3	I came from seemingly a good family.
1:39.3	My family was very religious.
1:41.3	No one had divorces. No one had scandals that were public. Everyone has
1:45.8	skeletons, but nothing that was public. And my husband came from a really rough background of
1:52.1	very poor divorces throughout his family, drug and alcohol abuse. And so we just came from
1:59.9	different worlds. Well, when he met me,
2:02.6	he was like instantly head over heels and he spoiled me all the time. And the bad part was I
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