299: I Thought My Husband Was a Narcissist
The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle
Laura Doyle
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Grace's husband was hiding bottles around the house, giving her lists of rules to follow, and threatening to leave for "a woman who respects me." She opened a secret bank account and was planning her escape from what felt like an abusive marriage with a narcissist.
Then she discovered the Six Intimacy Skills and decided to go all-in one last time. What happened next shocked everyone—including her 8-year-old son, who asked, "Mom, why are you smiling all the time?"
In just 4 months, Grace's husband stopped drinking, became a stay-at-home-dad so she could work, and began using the nickname he used when they were dating. He tells her, "Just when I think it can't get any better, you get better."
Grace shares the exact steps she took to transform their marriage from feeling like "slavery" to being treated like a princess. If you think your husband might be narcissistic or abusive, Grace's story will give you hope and a clear path forward.
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| 0:00.0 | My guest, Grace's narcissistic husband blamed her for everything, and they were on the brink of divorce. |
| 0:06.3 | But she started some new skills, and now they're madly in love again, and she's not walking on eggshells, |
| 0:13.2 | and divorce has never come up since. She's going to tell us how she did it so you can do it too. Grace, |
| 0:20.5 | welcome to the Empowered Wife podcast. |
| 0:22.8 | Thank you so much for being here. |
| 0:24.4 | I'm excited to hear your story. |
| 0:26.1 | Well, thank you for having me. |
| 0:27.4 | I'm excited to be here too. |
| 0:29.7 | Cool. |
| 0:31.0 | I'll start with a little bit about myself. |
| 0:34.5 | I grew up in a Metanite culture, so that was a big part of my upbringing. And in our |
| 0:41.0 | culture, I was taught from a very, basically brainwashed from a very young age, that I'm better |
| 0:47.6 | than everybody else. Our religion was the best. Our traditions were the best, and we were the right faith. |
| 0:56.1 | And I think a lot of that played into my marriage later on, but I didn't like being in that faith. |
| 1:12.9 | And so in my early teens, I started to become very rebellious and disrespectful to my parents. |
| 1:22.3 | And I wanted out of there. |
| 1:25.4 | And when I met my husband, I was a few days shy of being 21. |
| 1:30.3 | And I met this awesome guy. |
| 1:32.3 | He was friends with my uncle. |
| 1:36.3 | And when I shook his hand, I remember meeting him and shaking his hand, |
| 1:43.3 | and it just clicked that this is going to be my future husband. |
| 1:48.1 | That was my take on how I met my husband. |
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