534-She was Cold, Took Ownership, & Now Feels Tender Towards Her Man: Hannah's Story
Delight Your Marriage
Belah Rose
4.7 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Can we give you an encouragement today?
Just because your marriage has felt cold…
Disconnected…
Tense…
Or emotionally distant for years…
Does not mean that's how it has to stay.
In today's episode, a wife recently shared that for years, her husband told her he didn't feel respected — and honestly? She truly didn't understand what he meant.
Not because she didn't love him.
Not because she was trying to hurt him.
But because no one had ever taught her what respect actually looks like to a husband.
And over time, little hurts built up.
Distance built up.
Frustration built up.
She described herself as becoming colder toward affection — even non-sexual touch felt difficult.
But instead of staying stuck, she decided to ask God to change her.
She humbled herself and leaned in.
And slowly, things changed.
Her husband began saying things like:
"I finally feel respected."
"I finally feel seen."
"I finally feel like you get it."
Yes, that's possible.
When we begin loving our spouse the way God designed them to receive love, something softens.Â
Peace enters places that used to feel tense.
Hope returns.
If you know something in your marriage needs a revamp…
If you're tired of repeating the same painful patterns…
If you long for emotional, spiritual, and physical connection again…
We would love to walk alongside you.
Love,
The Delight Your Marriage Team
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to DYM Marriage Transformation Coaching. |
| 0:04.0 | I've heard in 180 countries top 1% podcast worldwide. |
| 0:08.0 | And we are thrilled that we walk alongside marriages that have been suffering and struggling, |
| 0:13.0 | sometimes for decades. |
| 0:15.0 | Then they come to our work and God changes everything. |
| 0:18.0 | Listen in because you're going to hear transformation stories that are going to give you hope that things can change for you or inspiring conversations with other |
| 0:27.0 | experts or teaching that's literally going to give you practical tools to make your marriage |
| 0:32.9 | better today. My name's Bella Rose. Here we are. Let's go. Heal intimacy biblically. Delight your |
| 0:41.5 | marriage. Hi there. Welcome. My name's Bella Rose and I'm thrilled you're joining me. |
| 0:51.4 | So today's conversation is with a wife who felt, if you kind of describe it as cold |
| 0:58.4 | or disconnected to our husband, not wanting his affection. And what happens a lot of times is |
| 1:03.6 | husbands will come to this program and say, my wife is so, you know, the opposite. I'm the one |
| 1:10.0 | that wants the connection. I'm the one that wants the romance. I'm the one that wants the connection. |
| 1:11.2 | I'm the one that wants the romance. |
| 1:12.5 | I'm the one that wants the affection. |
| 1:14.3 | But she's cold and she's distant and she doesn't want the physical touch, even non-sexual physical touch. |
| 1:19.5 | She doesn't want that. |
| 1:20.8 | And so Hannah's one that took matters into her own hands. |
| 1:23.9 | She saw that in herself and decided to come to the DYM marriage transformation coaching |
| 1:29.4 | and get herself transformed. And God changed their marriage. So it's really incredible to hear |
| 1:37.9 | how Hannah owned it. She said, I need to work here. And I'm excited to let you hear the |
| 1:44.0 | transformation that happened between |
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