339: How to Get Your Husband Back After *HE Files* for Divorce
The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle
Laura Doyle
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Kathleen prided herself on being the go-to girl, the organizer, and the magic maker for her family. But behind the picture-perfect family life, her marriage was quietly falling apart. Her husband had started drinking, her trust in him had crumbled and the intimacy between them had completely disappeared until it eventually led him to the only solution he could think of—divorce.
It felt surreal to throw away 36 years.
Her sister kept pushing a book on her, but Kathleen was so tired of trying, she almost blocked her. Something made her finally listen to it and that was when everything changed.
Today, Kathleen and her husband are living their best life in Mexico. He quit drinking completely. He cooks, handles the finances, hires a housekeeper for her and treats her like a princess. They dance in the house, sit on the roof drinking coffee and watch the sky together. After 40 years, their marriage is better than it's ever been.
If divorce feels like the only way to happiness, Kathleen's story will make you think twice.
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| 0:00.0 | He said that he felt like a failure and he can't seem to make me happy. And so his only solution was to ask for a divorce. And he said, the sooner the better. He said it for me. I didn't have to be the one to say it. It was over. We were done trying. I can't, I can't, I don't have the energy to hope anymore. It's just too hard. Warning, listening to this podcast is going to |
| 0:22.8 | make your marriage irresistible. Whether you're exhausted from carrying everything and just want |
| 0:27.5 | him to step up and be a real partner, or you're lonely and aching to feel close again and adored, |
| 0:34.2 | that's totally fixable. I'm Laura Doyle, New York Times best-selling author and creator of |
| 0:38.5 | the six intimacy skills. For 25 years, I've had a front row seat watching women go from burnt out |
| 0:44.0 | and disconnected to having the passionate, easy marriage they always wanted. Love is learnable. |
| 0:50.5 | The secrets are real, and this is where I teach them. So glad you're here. |
| 0:55.0 | Stay with us to the end for your Try It Tonight takeaway. |
| 0:58.0 | Kathleen, welcome to the Empire of Why Podcast. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm so excited you're here. |
| 1:03.0 | Hey, Laura, glad to be here. |
| 1:06.0 | All right. |
| 1:07.0 | Well, let's start from the beginning. |
| 1:09.0 | How did you meet and fall in love with your husband? Like, how did you know he was the one? |
| 1:14.8 | Well, we met in the Stone Age a long time ago in theater. We were both acting in a musical together. And it was super fun. And he was really flirty and fun and super confident. And he had just gotten out of the Marine Corps. So he was really |
| 1:29.0 | strong and really fit. And he was a great dancer. And I just felt very feminine around him. |
| 1:35.2 | And we dated for about two weeks. And I started beginning to see a lot of kind of macho, |
| 1:43.1 | ego-driven behavior that I didn't really like. And so after two |
| 1:46.9 | weeks of dating, and I broke up with him because I told him that I thought our values didn't align. |
| 1:54.0 | But he scaled the wall of my apartment building and broke into my apartment just to put flowers |
| 1:59.3 | on my bed. And I gave him a second chance. |
| 2:04.1 | So I began to see his softer side and how kind and helpful and patient he was with his mother, |
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