340: The Cure for the Selfish Husband
The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle
Laura Doyle
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Does your husband seem to only think about himself?
Does it feel like you're the only adult in the house managing everything while he coasts along?
If you've been waiting for him to just step up and care a little more, this episode is for you.
I'm sharing three practices that will get you more help, more consideration and a husband who genuinely goes out of his way for you. None of them involve complaining, fighting or telling him what he should do.
One of these practices is the same one that turned my own husband from the man eating Oreos on the couch while I cleaned up everything—into the man who now does the dishes, the laundry and takes care of the cars.
Stay until the end for my Worst Relationship Advice of the Week Award—this week's winner sounds like a power move and it is the fastest way to push him further away.
You've been waiting for him to change for long enough. After this episode, you won't have to wait anymore.
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| 0:00.0 | Maya was driving home from picking up the kids when her 12-year-old daughter said something that |
| 0:05.0 | made her grip the steering wheel a lot tighter. Dad's taking a trip during spring break, right? |
| 0:12.0 | Maya had no idea what her daughter was talking about. Her separated husband had apparently |
| 0:16.9 | planned an entire out-of-state solo vacation during the one week the kids were off school |
| 0:23.6 | and just assumed that Maya would handle it. No heads up, no conversation, nothing. |
| 0:30.6 | By the time she pulled into the driveway, she drafted and redrafted the most devastating text in her head. |
| 0:36.6 | He was selfish. |
| 0:38.2 | He was inconsiderate. |
| 0:39.3 | He needed to grow up and take some responsibility for his own children. |
| 0:43.5 | She didn't send that text, though. |
| 0:46.4 | What she said instead got her two days of kid-free spring break and a husband who went out of his way to accommodate her. And this is the |
| 0:55.7 | part that still gets me, a laughing emoji, all in under 10 minutes. I'm going to tell you exactly |
| 1:01.7 | what she wrote, and I'm going to walk you through three practices that work on even the most |
| 1:06.3 | chronically self-consumed husband, including the one that turned the man who used to just sit and eat |
| 1:11.8 | Oreos out of the package on a weeknight while I cleaned up everything into the husband |
| 1:16.4 | who now does the dishes, the laundry, and takes care of the cars. I'm Laura Doyle. I created the |
| 1:23.2 | six intimacy skills, and for 27 years I've been watching women go from burnt out and disconnected to |
| 1:28.6 | having the easy, passionate marriage they always wanted. Love is learnable, and the secrets are real, |
| 1:35.0 | and this is where I teach them. Stick around to the end. I'm giving out the worst relationship |
| 1:40.3 | advice of the week award. This week's winner is something I'm seeing all over social |
| 1:44.6 | media that's going to make your marriage feel so much heavier than it needs to be. |
| 1:49.1 | So let's get into it. |
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