We can get the things that he wants so I won't be selfish.

And of course, that result nothing.

So then in conversations, it would just keep getting worse and worse.

And then, of course, the conversation would come back up again and he would be like, you're being selfish.

Kate's marriage was struggling and she could not figure out what to do.

I would make sure he had nothing to do, make the dinners, clean the house, take care of our parents,

do all the finances, and of course that never made him happy, and I was still selfish because

of the way I was approaching our relationship.

It got so bad.

My nine-year-old at the time grabbed my six-year-old daughter and he brought her into her room because he didn't want her seeing this fight. And it was just heartbreaking.

It seemed like there was only one way out. And at that point, I had told him, I can't do this anymore.

And I visited a divorce attorney.

Until she tried something she had never done before.

Had you asked me to do anything else, I think I would have put the book down and just been like, I can't put anything else on my list, Laura.

Like, I'm sorry.

And you didn't say that.

You said, it's time for you to stop.

But will it work?

He started just interacting differently.

No matter how much my guest Kate did to fix her marriage, it was never enough.

So she started looking for divorce attorneys.

But instead, she found a book that really spoke to her,

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