Laura Doyle

Palm Beach Post Asks Wives: Are You Controlling Like Laura Doyle?

” I’ve come a long way from the controlling wife that I once was. I no longer feel I have to tell my husband how to drive, what to eat or how to dress. Those days were pretty miserable. I spoke to reporter Jan Tuckwood about it and the story is in today’s...
read more

Restoring My Dignity Led to Intimacy

Become Your Best Self No trumpets sounded on the day I stopped nagging my husband. No parades or fireworks marked the occasion of me deciding to speak in a calm tone more becoming of a grown woman and less like a shrieking shrew. There were no cakes or balloons when I gave up trying to control him in favor of focusing on my own happiness. But something worth celebrating happened that day. My...
read more

Top 10 Ways to Control Your Husband

For years I truly believed if I could just get my husband to be tidier, more romantic, and more considerate everything would be fine in our marriage. I told him as much, and while that didn’t improve things at all, it did create wall-to-wall hostility and tension in our home. For a long time I didn’t even realize I was controlling. I thought I was just being helpful, acknowledging how...
read more

Mancow Asks Me About Sex

Mancow is a wild and wooly syndicated talk radio host, and yesterday we were debating on his show whether a woman should have sex with her husband whenever he wants. Here is our not-so-deep-and-philosophical discussion about it. Mancow and Laura This recording is the property of Mancow:...
read more

Has Anybody Seen My Dignity? I Seem to Have Lost It

Recently a reporter asked me why I lead workshops and retreats for women. Sometimes when I’m eating alone at an airport in a distant time-zone on my way to an event, I wonder the same thing. But then I remember what it was like. I remember what it was like to hear myself screeching almost every day. I remember what it was like to see my husband look stony and repulsed after I told him he...
read more

How to Inspire a Man to Want to Please You

What if your date asks what kind of food you want? What should say? What if you’re trying to get the dishes done and the kids bathed before bedtime and you’re overwhelmed? How do you motivate a TV-fixated husband to jump up and help? Men really do want us women to be happy, but it’s up to us to communicate our desires clearly and without manipulation, criticism or complaint....
read more

What Women with Lifelong Romance Believe: “But I Thought I Was Being Respectful!”

A Christian, a Muslim and a Jew walked into a bookstore…and walked away with more intimacy, passion and peace in their marriages. That’s according to my guest blogger April Cassidy, a Christian who says that she wanted to be respectful of her husband but didn’t know how until she got detailed instructions. She caused a pretty awkward moment in the bedroom before she learned....
read more

Why It’s Okay to Fake it Sometimes

Sometimes a coaching client will tell me that she can’t treat her husband or boyfriend respectfully because he really is being a jerk, or really blew it with the taxes or just doesn’t seem worthy. She will even go so far as to tell me she feels dishonest about acting like she respects what he thinks when she just doesn’t. What she means is that she doesn’t feel like...
read more

Separate the (Good) Men from the (Bad) Boys

Surrendered Singles One-Day Workshop: Attract and Marry the Man Who’s Right for You Join me in Miami on April 14th for a one-day workshop for women who are ready to develop the habits that lead to lifelong romance, presented by Hearts Desire International. In it you will discover who you are and what you want in a relationship and how to have more fun dating while you’re attracting the man...
read more

What Women with Lifelong Romance Believe: A Jewish Perspective

A Christian, a Muslim, a Jew and an Atheist walk into a blog…it sounds like the beginning of a joke, right? It’s actually my introduction to my new occasional blog series; What Women with Lifelong Romance Believe. It turns out the urge to control or improve your husband––along with the tendency to become disrespectful and forget why you married the guy in the first place––is universal...
read more


Mailing List ~ Keep Updated via Email!