Marriage Advice, Relationship Advice, Tips, and Help Articles
By Empowered Wife Rebecca P. I come from a strong family of matriarchs, who taught me what they had learned from their own experiences: Men are not safe or trustworthy. There seemed to be plenty of evidence to support that idea, from my grandmother’s whole family being killed in the Holocaust to a rabbi I… Read More »
By Teresa, Laura Doyle Relationship Coach I had been married for 20+ years to my third husband when I first discovered the 6 Intimacy Skills™. My first two marriages had ended in divorce. I did not want my third marriage to fail too. The year before finding Laura Doyle’s books, I had moved out of… Read More »
You’ve been working really hard on your relationship. At least it feels like hard work because it’s so draining and takes up so much time and energy. The bad news is you were probably working on fixing the wrong things. The good news is that, no matter how bad it seems now, it’s not too… Read More »
By Stella, Empowered Wife I’d been married to the man of my dreams for 22 years. Our marriage seemed idyllic to others, but the cumulative pain of having the same arguments again and again was overwhelming us both. On the worst days, when I most wanted him to comfort me, he would avoid me. I… Read More »
By Carol, Laura Doyle Certified Coach I come from generations of divorce. It seemed that was to be the destiny of my 26-year marriage as well. Raising three children, self-employment, financial challenges and stress all put tremendous pressure on my husband and me, and our relationship was beaten down. I resented the lack of partnership… Read More »
By Rhonda, Empowered Wife I have been married to my highschool sweetheart for over 30 years. We were pretty happy for the most part but struggled with a small part–the one where I tried to manipulate him into being the way I thought he should be. We had been dating for nine years before he… Read More »
By Dien, Empowered Woman It was actually my husband who first read The Surrendered Wife. He said he thought it would help our relationship if I considered some of the ideas. I looked at the title, and I was so angry. How dare he blame this on me! I really thought that I was doing… Read More »
How do you fix your marriage when it’s been so hard for so long that you just don’t feel like trying anymore? If you were one of the blog readers who asked that question last week, you reminded me of how exhausting that is. It’s awful. When you’re already drained, the idea that there’s one… Read More »
I hate hearing about anyone getting divorced. But as a relationship coach, almost every day I hear from a woman who is in excruciating pain and on the verge of divorce because her husband is having an affair and refuses to end it. Or his chronic, excessive drinking has put her over the edge and… Read More »
When I was on the brink of divorcing my husband, I was desperate to end the pain of constantly feeling rejected and lonely. I also hoped to escape the financial chaos we were stuck in and dreamed of finding a man who would better match me than the Loser Pants I had married. Convinced it… Read More »
