Happy Wife = Happy Life (and other bad relationship advice)

Talk To Me: The Debra Fileta Podcast

Debra Fileta, M.A., LPC and Creator of TrueLoveDates.com

Self-improvement, Relationships, Education, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Society & Culture

4.9 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

We’re continuing our bad relationship advice series with the bad relationship advice that says, “A happy wife makes a happy life”. I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve heard this bad relationship advice. It’s advice that has been used as one of the most common approaches in relationships. But why is this bad relationship advice, and what advice is actually BETTER when it comes to how we approach marriage? Happy Wife Makes A Happy Life? This short, 5-minute episode will offer you a counter perspective to this common advice, and challenge you to see things differently when it comes to marriage and relationships. In this short episode, we cover: Why this is bad advice. Talk about how this advice encourages passivity. What happens when we follow this advice and why it forms one-sided relationships. How to approach marriage from a healthier perspective. Learning to adapt a mutual model in marriage. The BETTER formula to apply instead of Happy Wife = Happy Life I hope this episode encourages you and challenges you to say no to this bad relationship advice! Tune in to Episode 67 of the Love + Relationships Podcast and subscribe to the show by clicking on the button below! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER – SPOTIFY – GOOGLE PLAY – iHEART RADIO Get professional counseling from the comfort of your own home this year! Online professional counseling + Believers in Christ. Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra — 10% off your first month!! UPCOMING WAYS TO CONNECT AT TrueLoveDates.com: April 17th: FREEDOM FROM TOXIC RELATIONSHIPS GROUP FOR WOMEN April 21st: COMMUNICATION & CONNECTION – AN ONLINE SEMINAR FOR EVERY RELATIONSHIP STATUS April 25th: TLD SINGLES MIXER FOR PEOPLE IN THEIR 20S Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: ORDER DEBRA’S NEWEST BOOK today! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra’s Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She’s also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book an online session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.6	I'm your host, Deborah Felita.
0:53.4	And I'm so glad you're tuning
0:54.7	into these candid conversations about love, sex, dating, singleness, and marriage. For those of
1:00.6	you who don't know me or are tuning in for the first time, I'm a licensed professional counselor
1:05.2	and author specializing in relationship issues. I also run the Relationship Advice blog,
1:10.6	True Love Dates.com, reaching millions
1:13.0	of people with the message that healthy people make healthy relationships. If you've tuned
1:19.0	into the podcast before, you know it's a hotline style show, meaning people call in or write in
1:24.4	with their relationship questions, and I answer them on this show in short,
1:27.9	practical, bite-sized answers. If you have a question that you want me to answer on the show,
1:33.7	send it via email or voice memo to Deborah at true lovedates.com or check out my podcast page
1:40.3	truolovdates.com slash love and relationships. And I'll do my best to get it answered on one of the
1:45.7	episodes. So let's get started. So we're in a series that I'm calling the bad
1:55.6	relationship advice series. And a few weeks ago on Instagram, I asked you guys to submit
2:00.7	the worst relationship advice that you've ever received from someone. And a few weeks ago on Instagram, I asked you guys to submit the worst relationship
2:01.8	advice that you've ever received from someone. And let me tell you, some of the advice that
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