{"id":1793,"date":"2012-05-10T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T09:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauradoyle1.wpengine.com\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2023-12-20T22:35:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T06:35:43","slug":"top-10-ways-to-control-your-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lauradoyle.org\/blog\/top-10-ways-to-control-your-husband\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Ways to Control Your Husband"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

For a long time I didn’t even realize<\/em> I was controlling. I thought I was just being helpful, acknowledging how I felt, and being honest. Little did I know I was shooting holes in the bucket of our intimacy.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t until I learned to recognize my controlling behavior and make a different choice that the romance returned.<\/p>\n

On the road to giving up my controlling ways, I tried to make modifications, tried to be more subtle, even thought I was improving at times with some of the techniques below. But all of it got me to the same lonely spot: wondering why my husband was withdrawn, distant and defensive.<\/p>\n

For the record, here are all the embarrassing ways–none very effective–that I tried to control my husband:<\/p>\n

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