How Does Chronic Pain Affect Your Marriage

The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle

Laura Doyle

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🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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As you already know if you or your husband has chronic pain, it can put a big strain on a marriage! When one of you is always hurting, it’s an ever present challenge to emotional and physical intimacy. Just like when you’re sick, it’s very hard to be at your best when you’re going “ouch ouch ouch” all day. It can also interfere with receiving or giving physical affection, which is frustrating and can make you feel lonely on top of everything else. If you’re not sure how that pain is ever going to be alleviated, it can be so discouraging and leave you feeling guilty that you’re not able to be the kind of wife you want to be and hopeless that you’ll ever have a happy marriage. So much seems out of your control, it’s hard to know what you can ever do to improve the situation, especially if your marriage feels like it’s unraveling already.

So how can you even begin to fix your marriage when that’s happening? On today’s episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, I’ll share three ways you can.

Plus, my guest Janice knew she was a controlling and sometimes downright cruel wife, but she had no idea how to stop. Even early on, the constant tension at their house was punctuated by her husband’s angry outbursts. Then she learned a different approach, and today she is thrilled to feel emotional stability within herself and a culture of peace, comfort and mutual respect in her marriage. She’s going to tell us how she did it so you can do it too.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Empowered Wife podcast where it's all about fixing your marriage without your man's conscious effort to that you feel desired, taken care of, and special, even if your relationship feels completely hopeless. I'm Laura Doyle and today I'm talking about how
0:25.4	chronic pain affects your marriage. My guest Janice knew she was a controlling wife and sometimes
0:32.1	downright cruel, but she had no idea how to stop.
0:35.8	Early on there was always tension at their house punctuated by her husband's angry outbursts.
0:41.7	Then she learned how to take a different approach and today she is
0:45.6	thrilled to feel emotional stability within herself and a culture of peace, comfort,
0:52.0	and mutual respect in her marriage.
0:54.1	She's going to tell us how she did it so you can do it too.
0:57.2	That's coming up, but first let's talk about how chronic pain affects your marriage.
1:01.6	As you already know if you have chronic pain or if your
1:05.9	husband does, it can put a big strain on your marriage. When one of you is always
1:10.4	hurting, it's an ever-present challenge to emotional and
1:14.7	physical intimacy. Just like when you're sick, it's very hard to be at your best
1:20.9	when you're going ouch ouch out
1:22.8	out all day and it can interfere with receiving or giving
1:28.6	physical affection which is frustrating and it can make you lonely on top of everything else.
1:34.7	And if you're not sure how that pain is ever going to be alleviated, that can be
1:39.8	very discouraging and
1:45.0	hopeless that you're not able to be the kind of wife you want to be and
1:48.0	hopeless that you'll ever have a happy marriage.
1:52.0	So much seems out of your control. It's hard to know what you can ever do to
1:57.2	improve the situation, especially if your marriage feels like it's unraveling already.
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