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The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle
Laura Doyle
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Lisa and her husband were both police officers, but his graveyard shift left her feeling lonely and resentful. A traumatic birth, months of pain, and postpartum depression with no support all strained their marriage even more. They fought about intimacy weekly and constantly clashed about parenting. She felt invisible and unheard.
Then her husband confessed that she'd made him feel like a terrible father and Lisa realized her approach to their relationship wasn't working.
She decided to experiment with a different way, and everything began to change.
Today, their marriage is filled with passion and desire. Her husband helps around the house without being asked. Their little boy talks constantly about being a husband and father like daddy. Their home is full of the warmth and joy she thought she'd lost forever.
If you're fighting constantly and exhausted from trying so hard, Lisa's story will show you the way forward.
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| 0:00.0 | Marriage must be just slightly better or you're just slightly more happy than if you were single and alone. |
| 0:05.7 | Because I would think like, especially with like the division of chores and stuff in my house, like, well, if I was alone or if I got a divorce, then there'd really be no one to help me. |
| 0:13.8 | So him doing it maybe sometimes or very less unfrequently is better than no one at all. I had an actual system where I'd be like, |
| 0:23.6 | okay, I'm going to ask him to do the dishes. And if he doesn't do it in 30 minutes, I'm setting a timer on my |
| 0:28.5 | phone, I'm going to get up and do them. And then when he jumps up and is like, oh, I was going to do |
| 0:33.5 | that. I'll just, I gave him the silent treatment for sure and be like, yeah, sure you |
| 0:40.5 | were. And it would turn into cold wars where probably like the rest of the day I would just be |
| 0:46.4 | ferociously cleaning and I wouldn't look at him or talk to him as his punishment. |
| 0:51.8 | Real women, real marriage turnarounds. This is the Empowered Wife podcast. |
| 0:57.8 | My guest Lisa and her husband fought about parenting a lot. He was always working, |
| 1:03.0 | leaving her to do everything at home. But Lisa did a two-week experiment, and now their marriage |
| 1:10.0 | is magical, even with some life challenges they can do anything |
| 1:14.7 | together she's going to tell us how she did it so you can do it too lisa welcome to the empowered |
| 1:21.5 | wife podcast i'm so excited you're here thank you all right so i like to hear about what it was that attracted you to your |
| 1:31.7 | husband. How did you two fall in love? Well, we met on a blind date, some mutual friends of ours |
| 1:39.5 | set us up. And so we met for sushi for our first blind date and so um we we we started off long |
| 1:49.4 | distance he was uh we were about three three hours away from each other um and so we just kind |
| 1:57.3 | of had this like love on the weekend situation where we just, you know, |
| 2:01.2 | we just wanted to see each other so bad through the week as we were working and then on |
| 2:05.2 | the weekend we got to see each other and we take turns visiting and, I don't know, we, |
| 2:13.1 | it was quick, we fell in most quick. |
| 2:15.1 | We were engaged about seven months after we met, |
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