341: Resentment Was Killing My Marriage (Here's What Saved It)
The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle
Laura Doyle
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🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
With a hot boyfriend, sizzling chemistry, flowers on the table and a baby on the way, Kayla felt like her fairytale was just beginning. But soon enough, she found herself alone at the hospital, alone at home, and alone with all the chores. Eventually, she stopped seeing him as her partner and started seeing him as a big child she had to take care of.
The resentment grew until it swallowed the spark, the intimacy, and eventually the whole relationship. Then during one terrible fight, he crossed a line she never thought he would cross.
She was hanging on by a thread when a friend handed her a book, and nothing was ever the same again.
Today, her husband asks her over coffee what he can take off her plate and even vacuumed on crutches just because the floor was a mess. They call each other cute nicknames and he picks her up in the kitchen for koala cuddles while their kids watch. And when they married, she walked down the aisle toward her sexy Irishman playing guitar, and knew she had her fairytale after all.
If you've ever felt mounting resentment as you're forced to be more like his mother than his wife, this episode was made for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Laura, the sound of his guitar went from being this sexy thing that I was drawn to to like, |
| 0:07.6 | it made me angry. |
| 0:08.7 | It made me angry if I heard the music in our home. |
| 0:11.8 | I just saw him as a big child and someone that I had to take care of. |
| 0:16.5 | I know that's like such a common thing that we hear on this podcast and I felt that too. |
| 0:20.5 | How could I possibly stay and raise a child with someone who could speak to me like that? |
| 0:26.7 | I just was so, I was so hurt. |
| 0:30.3 | I have like what I call now, like I had a blame blanket on that was keeping me really warm. |
| 0:35.5 | Like it was a protective mechanism to have blamed him for |
| 0:38.8 | everything. And taking it off was very scary. Warning, listening to this podcast is going to make |
| 0:46.0 | your marriage irresistible. Whether you're exhausted from carrying everything and just want him to |
| 0:50.4 | step up and be a real partner or you're lonely and aching to feel close and adored again. |
| 0:56.1 | It's totally fixable. I'm Laura Doyle, creator of the six intimacy skills and for 25 years, |
| 1:01.3 | I've been watching women go from burnt out and disconnected to having the passionate, easy marriage |
| 1:07.2 | they always wanted. Love is learnable. The secrets are real, and this is where I teach them. |
| 1:13.5 | Stay with us to the end for your Try It Tonight takeaway. Kayla, welcome to the Improvac |
| 1:18.9 | podcast. I'm so excited to have you. Thank you, Gora. So excited to be here. Thank you. |
| 1:24.5 | Cool, cool. Well, take us back to the beginning. What was it that attracted you to your husband? |
| 1:29.3 | How did you know he was the one? |
| 1:31.3 | Sure. |
| 1:32.3 | Well, we actually met as flatmates. |
| 1:36.3 | So we moved in together. |
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