E168: Secrets to Reignite Happiness And Love in Your Marriage w/Laura Doyle
The Lila Rose Show
Lila Rose
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2024
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
What if your marriage feels loveless, and divorce seems like the only option? How do you navigate a relationship when your spouse is unwilling to work on it, caught in addiction, or even unfaithful? And is it really possible to reignite the passion and excitement of the early days of courtship?
In this episode, I sit down with Laura Doyle, bestselling author of The Surrendered Wife: A Practical Guide to Finding Intimacy, Passion, and Peace. With a mission to end world divorce, Laura shares her powerful story of coming to the brink of divorce and the transformative steps she took to turn her marriage around. She reveals practical wisdom inspired by happily married women and how embracing the feminine art of receptivity can empower women to inspire their husbands to step up as heroes in their relationships.
Laura also addresses the challenges of navigating difficult situations and offers actionable advice for rebuilding love and intimacy, even in the toughest circumstances. Don’t miss this insightful and inspiring conversation!
Check out Laura's website: https://lauradoyle.org/
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00:00:00 - Intro
00:03:15 - Inspiration for first book, Surrendered Wife
00:09:34 - What were your marriage's dysfunctional patterns?
00:16:13 - Proper Self Care
00:18:36 - Leisure and Sabbath
00:24:38 - Yin/yang; Masculine/Feminine
00:26:23 - Cheat Word: Thank you
00:34:20 - Express desires in a way that inspires
00:40:34 - Every complaint is a lazy desire
00:48:21 - Coming from a place of contentedness
00:52:08 - My desires are the north star
01:02:49 - What about really bad situations?
01:14:36 - Male-bashing
01:32:06 - He wants to be her hero
01:38:38 - 'Ouch'
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I think like all men everywhere are kind of on the lookout for that opportunity to be someone's |
| 0:05.2 | hero. I was too proud to get divorced. As a last-ditch effort, I decided to ask women who had |
| 0:10.4 | happy marriages what their secrets were. And it wasn't that long afterwards that I came through |
| 0:15.3 | the front door and my husband saw me and his face lit up. He was happy to see me again. |
| 0:20.3 | You know, one point of maybe disagreement |
| 0:22.0 | we have is this idea that. Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Lila Rose show. Today, we're |
| 0:29.9 | going to sit down with Laura Doyle, who is a relationship coach and a New York Times bestselling |
| 0:35.0 | author. And we're going to explore the question of how to strengthen |
| 0:37.8 | our marriages so that both spouses' needs are met in the marriage. I think this topic is so |
| 0:42.8 | incredibly important because strong marriages, I believe, really make or break any society. |
| 0:47.4 | Laura Doyle has quite a bit of experience in this line of work. She's written several books, |
| 0:51.8 | which have become New York Times bestsellers. She has started a |
| 0:54.9 | program that has helped 15,000 individual women strengthen their marriages. And she has traveled the |
| 1:00.3 | world with this message, with her work being translated into 19 different languages and sold in 30 |
| 1:05.9 | different countries. I have friends who have been personally benefited, especially by her book called The Surrendered |
| 1:12.0 | Single. |
| 1:13.0 | Today's episode is going to be focused on marriage advice and communication advice for relationship, |
| 1:18.1 | conflict resolution, so much more practical advice. |
| 1:21.4 | Now we do get into some controversial waters in part of our conversation. |
| 1:26.0 | We discuss the topic of abusive behavior in marriage and how to |
| 1:29.2 | respond to abusive behavior. Now, as I have said many times on the show, and I think this is |
| 1:33.7 | really important, there are absolutely cases where due to abuse it is important for a woman or for |
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