Laura Doyle Blog
Empowered Wife Courtney The Not-So-Pleasant Past I remember it like it was yesterday. I was rushing around the house, trying to get ready for work. The baby was asleep, my husband was asleep, and it looked like a bomb had gone off in the house. So basically, it was a normal day. However, on this… Read More »
Maybe your husband seems distant or cold. Maybe he’s just so touchy all the time—like if you breathe wrong, it sets him off. Or you see him so rarely it’s just awkward when you’re together, and you start to wonder, “How should I act around this guy?” You want him to be more loving and… Read More »
What do men want most from the women they love? If you’re asking yourself that, it’s probably because your guy seems grumpy, distant or depressed. Maybe he’s all three. Early on in my marriage, when everything was a struggle, I thought I was a pretty good wife. And since my marriage was miserable, that meant… Read More »
What you focus on increases. That’s the law of attraction at its core, and it’s my experience in my relationship too, and what I witness with my clients. When I repeatedly suggested my husband ask for a raise at work, what I was really saying was, “You don’t make enough money.” Eventually, he stopped making… Read More »
Shana was upset with her husband when she got home to find the kids eating candy and playing on the iPad while he worked in the yard. “I just can never count on him when I want to go out. He says he’s taking care of the kids and then I come home to this!”… Read More »
When my marriage was miserable, I was always looking for clues about how to fix it. I desperately wanted to find some key information that I could use to stop my husband from being the biggest loser-pants on the planet. And in a way, that’s what happened. Sorta. I finally found the right information, and… Read More »
I used to think that having a happy marriage was a direct result of marrying the right person. Now I know better. Of course, it helps to marry someone who delights you, but all brides are delighted to marry their husbands on their wedding day. So it’s likely that you did marry someone who delights… Read More »
Empowered Woman – Courtney I first met my husband at the tender age of 21. We had a whirlwind romance and got engaged only four months after officially becoming boyfriend and girlfriend. Six months after our engagement, we were married. I felt like he was the most amazing man I’d ever met–he was funny, smart,… Read More »
Being married to a man who was once affectionate and thoughtful, but isn’t anymore, is painful and heartbreaking. I still remember what that was like. It hurts just thinking about it, even though that was years ago. But what if the underlying problem was something you could fix pretty quickly, once you knew how? Because… 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 »
