{"id":7429,"date":"2016-01-07T04:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauradoyle1.wpengine.com\/?p=7429"},"modified":"2023-12-20T22:35:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T06:35:12","slug":"controlling-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lauradoyle.org\/blog\/controlling-husband\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Stop a Controlling Husband [Before You Smack Him]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Does your husband tell you how to cut an onion? How to drive? What to wear?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no fun to have someone barking orders at you like you\u2019re incompetent or a kitchen elf who should do his bidding.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve calmly asked him to just relax or have gotten upset about it, and he still can\u2019t seem to keep himself from telling you what to do and how to do it.<\/p>\n

It gets discouraging. Who wouldn\u2019t be defensive?<\/p>\n

If you knew how to get him to stop, you surely would, but nothing seems to work. He just doesn\u2019t get the message. So you struggle along, feeling hurt and angry most of the time.<\/p>\n

That was Allison\u2019s situation, and she couldn\u2019t take it anymore.<\/p>\n

She left her husband because he was so controlling. She felt like a prisoner at times and embarrassed when he told her how to cut the cake in front of everyone at a graduation party.<\/p>\n

But when I showed her an approach she hadn\u2019t considered, she decided she had nothing to lose by trying it.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when everything changed. Now Allison is back with her husband and feeling like a newlywed again.<\/p>\n

\u201cI finally understand what people mean when they say \u2018I can\u2019t wait to spend the rest of my life with you,\u2019\u201d she told me excitedly. \u201cThat\u2019s exactly how I feel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what I shared with Allison that helped her get there:<\/p>\n

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