Marriage Advice, Relationship Advice, Tips, and Help Articles
I think you’ll agree with me when I say that sometimes the hardest thing in the world to do is to get a man to talk to you. You ask how his day was and he grunts. You tell him your news for the day and he keeps eating without even looking up. You try… Read More »
Kathy Murray, Senior Relationship Coach Having a sexless marriage before I learned the intimacy skills had me feeling so unattractive. Before I read Laura’s book The Surrendered Wife, my husband wasn’t interested in making love to me. We fought about it all the time. I felt so unattractive and undesired…
Even though we just met, I’m gonna ask you to do something kinda weird. Ready? Pretend for a minute that the problems in your marriage are not because of your husband being neurodiverse or having a mental illness. Imagine that the source of your unhappiness is definitely not that your husband has ADD (Attention Deficit… Read More »
Hearing a mental health diagnosis from a professional about your husband is sad news, but it can also really seem like the doorway to the promised land where your relationship improves. It sure did for me. Of course I was crushed to learn that my husband had a mental disorder, but I also felt hopeful… Read More »
Doesn’t your marriage have to be fixed before you can help someone else? I didn’t set out to be a relationship expert. I was just trying to get my husband to pick up after himself, and be more romantic and quit watching TV all the time. In the process, I accidentally
I admit that if anyone had told me not to talk about my relationship to my husband when I was newly married 26 years ago, I would have dismissed that person as a nut job. I probably would have smugly said, “We talk about everything.” You might be getting ready to put me in the… Read More »
OOn the Empowered Wife Podcast, I give out The Worst Relationship Advice of the Week Award. There’s never a shortage of bad advice to choose from, and most of it sounds like harmless conventional wisdom, some from well-known experts. But bad relationship advice is harmful. I know from applying some of these ineffective suggestions in… Read More »
Should you ever come clean about what you’re doing behind his back? I got a great note from Theresa, who just read The Empowered Wife and got—really got—that the marriage problems she has been griping about and wanting her husband to change for years are mostly things she has been mucking up herself. She wanted… Read More »
Everybody knows marriage is a 50-50 partnership, but what if it isn’t? What if one of you is wrecking the marriage and the other person is just responding in kind? Sure, both people are suffering and stressed, but what if one person has the key? Surprisingly, that’s what I see in my relationship coaching practice… Read More »
Is your husband or boyfriend incredibly cruel at times? Does he swear, yell and call you names? Does it undermine your self-esteem? If so, then you may be verbally abused. But I’ve made an interesting discovery about verbal abuse. Only women suffer from it—not men. Wrapped inside that mystery is a profound key to making… Read More »
