Have Intimacy or Have Control: You Can't Have Both with Special Guest Laura Doyle | Ep. 507
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Today Laura Doyle from the Empowered Wife Podcast joins Dr. Kim to teach us some empowering ways to shift the culture of our marriage, even if our spouse isn't on board. Tune in to learn some of the "cheat phrases" Laura teaches that can help you shift from controlling tendencies to deeper intimacy.
We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.
PS - Please let me know if you end up with an experience like the story Laura tells about getting the kitchen clean!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Boston Marriage Podcast. Today I'm excited to welcome Laura Doyle to the podcast. |
| 0:07.9 | Laura's a New York Times bestselling author. Her books are the surrendered wife and the empowered wife. |
| 0:13.1 | She's a relationship coach who helps women bring passion and playfulness back to the marriage. |
| 0:17.9 | You can find Laura and all of her content at la Doyle.org. Let's welcome Laura now. |
| 0:27.2 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations and practical advice on how to build an |
| 0:39.4 | awesome marriage. I am your podcast producer and co-host, Lindsay Few. On the show will be our |
| 0:45.6 | host Dr. Kim Kim Kimberly. Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. |
| 0:52.9 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate |
| 0:56.2 | relationship. Well, Laura, welcome to the show. It is such an honor to have you join us and to be a part |
| 1:04.0 | of the Lost Marriage Podcast today. Thank you so much. Thank you for having me, Dr. Kim. This is an honor to be here. |
| 1:09.4 | Well, it's just so much fun. |
| 1:11.3 | It was great talking to you before we went live and just your heart for couples in marriage and ministry. |
| 1:17.5 | And we have a kindred spirit there for sure. |
| 1:19.8 | For sure. |
| 1:20.6 | So let's jump right in. |
| 1:21.8 | You say the control and intimacy are opposites. |
| 1:25.0 | You can only ever have one or the other. Why is that? Well, I learned this the |
| 1:32.4 | hard way by trying to improve my husband. When I was first married, I just thought he was the most |
| 1:38.8 | handsome, smart, talented, funny guy. And then a few years in, I thought, well, I'm going to just help him |
| 1:44.7 | improve a little bit. I'm going to help him be more ambitious and more tidy and also |
| 1:49.7 | more romantic. I think he could improve there. So I was giving him all these helpful suggestions. |
| 1:55.3 | And I did not understand why all of a sudden he didn't want to have much to do with me. He was very |
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