315: What She Did Instead of Becoming a Gray Divorce Statistic
The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle
Laura Doyle
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2025
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
Do you feel like you might be heading toward a gray divorce after sharing a lifetime together? Tess was blindsided when her husband fell in love with her best friend. She spent six miserable years drowning in resentment, looking for a way to end the tension and arguments between them, and toying with the idea of divorce. She felt desperate and stuck. Then she realized the only way out was to change what was within. Today? Tess feels ridiculously happy. Her husband asked her to marry him again, she loves living life by his side, and they're enjoying their grandchildren together in ways she never imagined possible. Discover the vulnerable moment with a coach that changed everything, the hardest Intimacy Skill Tess had to master, and how she went from being alone and insecure to feeling safe, loved, and cherished in her golden years. If you're wondering whether it's too late to save your marriage, Tess's story will show you it's not only possible—it can become better than you ever dreamed.
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| 0:00.0 | One day, well, you know, I got this big bulk through me that he was in love with my best |
| 0:06.7 | friend and I went down there and sure enough he was. And it was, yeah, it was a real shock. |
| 0:12.7 | Like it was, it was a big shock. The marriage counselor said to Dave, why did you marry an |
| 0:17.5 | emotionally unstable woman? Oh, my goodness. |
| 0:22.3 | Real women, real marriage turnarounds. |
| 0:25.8 | This is the Empowered Wife podcast. |
| 0:28.6 | My guest, Tess's husband, fell in love with her best friend, and she spent the next six |
| 0:33.8 | years in a tense marriage full of resentment. |
| 0:37.1 | But today, her marriage is sweet and tender, |
| 0:40.9 | and her husband says he wants to marry her all over again. She's going to tell us how she did it so |
| 0:46.4 | you can do it too. Tess, welcome to the Empowered Wife podcast. I'm so excited you're here. The first |
| 0:53.2 | thing I would love to hear, actually, |
| 0:55.0 | I would totally love to hear, is how you met your husband and what first attracted you to him. |
| 1:04.3 | Well, Laura, I met my husband. I first met my husband. It was in 1976. |
| 1:13.2 | And I'd just come back from Australia. |
| 1:19.4 | And I'd gone to, I was a nurse at that time, and I'd gone to the hospital to get a job. |
| 1:23.7 | And in those days, you all went up in a group and you all met and the matron. |
| 1:27.3 | She would give you a little, you know, rundown on how everything went. |
| 1:29.0 | And there was two of us that went to the same surgical ward, and we became best friends. And it just so happened that our birthdays were on the same day. |
| 1:37.6 | So when she had a birthday party, she made one for both of us and invited my husband, who I didn't know, was going to be my husband then. |
| 1:47.2 | And so I met him at my birthday party at her house, and he lived in another town, so it was just love at first sight. |
| 1:56.1 | And I thought he was handsome, well, he still is, and assertive and so knowledgeable. |
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