301: How Do You Respect a Husband You Don't Trust?
The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle
Laura Doyle
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Angie's husband came to America not speaking English, so of course she had to help him with everything—navigating websites, polishing his resume, even taking pictures of groceries so he wouldn't buy the wrong thing. But working 80 hours a week as a medical resident while mothering her husband crushed any attraction she once felt for him. When a therapist suggested she may have married the wrong guy, Angie spent months in agony on the fence, seriously considering divorce. Then she discovered there was another way. Today, that same "incapable" husband works in tech support, handles all their finances, and does more childcare than she does. Angie went from wanting to leave to feeling so grateful it moves her to tears. If you're convinced your husband just isn't capable and you can't see how the skills could possibly apply to your situation, Angie's transformation will show you exactly how to go from resentment to respect.
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| 0:00.0 | I lost respect for him. I felt like this was an adult, but he was really my child that I had to take care of. |
| 0:08.0 | With respect out of the question. |
| 0:10.0 | She opened me to this thought of, well, maybe you married the wrong man. |
| 0:14.0 | Angie started to wonder if she'd made a mistake. |
| 0:18.0 | This doesn't apply to me. I was like, this is so true. |
| 0:20.0 | I can see how like this control, |
| 0:22.3 | it damages relationships, but like I have no choice. She was convinced that nothing would ever change |
| 0:28.1 | until. I just had this eye-opening, realizing like, I have so much in this man. I have loads and |
| 0:36.7 | loads of gratitude for this man. |
| 0:39.0 | My guest, Angie, didn't respect her husband and couldn't trust him because he didn't know |
| 0:43.7 | how to navigate things in a new country where he didn't even speak the language. |
| 0:47.3 | She didn't see how the six intimacy skills could even apply to her. But today, she is proud |
| 0:53.2 | of her husband and so grateful it moves her to tears. She's going to tell us |
| 0:58.7 | what she did so you can do it too. Auntie, welcome to the Empowered Wife podcast. So happy to have you |
| 1:06.6 | here. Thank you so much, Laura. I'm so excited to be here as well. Wow. Well, I always like to hear |
| 1:14.5 | what was going wrong. I like to start with the bad stuff. So what was happening in your marriage? |
| 1:22.2 | So back in the battle days, I was super controlling. I was a controlling dragon. I even had that as a nickname. |
| 1:31.4 | And I never understood why that was my nickname until I got the skills and realized, oh, I'm quite controlling. |
| 1:39.6 | But in the bad all days, I really thought I was justified in all of my control. |
| 1:44.5 | Because like you mentioned in the intro, my husband, I met him in his home country. |
| 1:50.9 | And he showed me around in his home country. |
| 1:52.9 | And then he came to mine. |
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