309: How To Find Peace In The Middle Of A Marriage Crisis
The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle
Laura Doyle
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Gretchen was devastated when her husband announced he was divorcing her—in front of all five kids. She knew he meant it because they had always promised their kids that divorce would never be part of their story. From there, things only got worse. Tension was thick, nerves were frayed, and they couldn't take a walk around the neighborhood without fighting and leaving in opposite directions. They tried marriage counseling, but they'd leave fighting so badly they'd have to pull the car over. He decided to stay as roommates until the kids graduated. Then he was gone. One night after another blowup, Gretchen got out of the car at a red light and walked home. She Googled "why does my husband hate me" and finally found hope. Today, her marriage is peaceful, connected and intimate. They take long car rides talking for hours—or sitting in peaceful silence. Her husband is always making her laugh, and divorce is off the table. If you're living like roommates and your husband has one foot out the door, Gretchen's story will show you exactly what she did to find peace and restore intimacy in the middle of a marriage crisis.
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| 0:00.0 | We can't take a walk around the neighborhood without leaving and going home in opposite directions. |
| 0:07.3 | Our 20th anniversary came a few months after this, and we actually left the restaurant before the food ever got there because we couldn't even have civil enough conversation to stay at the table together. |
| 0:21.6 | Real women, real marriage turnarounds. |
| 0:24.6 | This is the Empowered Wife podcast. |
| 0:27.6 | My guest Gretchen's husband was exploring getting a divorce. |
| 0:31.6 | He told her repeatedly that he felt trapped in a prison. |
| 0:34.6 | But Gretchen made a decision to do something she'd never done, and today, |
| 0:39.8 | their marriage is fun and dreamy, and divorce is off the table. She's going to tell us how she |
| 0:45.7 | did it so you can do it too. Gretchen, welcome to the Empowered Wife podcast. I'm so excited |
| 0:52.3 | you're here. Thank you. I'm very excited to be here. |
| 0:56.3 | All right. Well, I wanted to ask how it was that you, how you got together with your husband. |
| 1:02.8 | What was it that drew you to him? That is such an easy question. Because I can say, hands down, it was his sense of humor like I was attracted to |
| 1:15.3 | him from the moment I met him because of how funny he was and how engaging he was and just his |
| 1:21.7 | ease with talking to other people and being social oh cool So he was making you laugh, sounds like. |
| 1:31.3 | It was foreign to me. |
| 1:33.3 | Oh, which was foreign to you. I love that. |
| 1:37.3 | Okay, so you got married and everything was great and then there started to be some challenges in the marriage. |
| 1:46.7 | What was going wrong in your marriage in those bad old days? |
| 1:52.0 | Initially, for a lot of times, it was just fighting. |
| 1:54.8 | It was just arguing disagreements. |
| 1:57.8 | Not all the time, but just regularly. |
| 2:00.1 | It was definitely a pattern where there was, we couldn't communicate through it, ended up with hurt feelings, and it was probably increasing, but it just was always there. |
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