{"id":8356,"date":"2017-01-05T04:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauradoyle1.wpengine.com\/?p=8356"},"modified":"2023-12-20T22:34:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T06:34:48","slug":"the-power-of-gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lauradoyle.org\/blog\/the-power-of-gratitude\/","title":{"rendered":"My Lazy Husband Became My Selfless Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"

Empowered Wife Courtney
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A Smile a Day Kept Divorce Away<\/strong><\/p>\n

Have you ever met someone who just radiates positivity? Someone so happy and wonderful it makes you cringe?<\/p>\n

That wasn\u2019t me.<\/p>\n

If you had known me BCE (Before Coaching Era), you\u2019d know that I always had a complaint.<\/p>\n

From the house not being clean enough to the kids being too loud, anything that happened in my life always had a negative spin.<\/p>\n

My husband, on the other hand, is the eternal optimist. So whenever I had a complaint, it really rubbed him the wrong way.<\/p>\n

Sometimes my issue would be about something general, but often it was about him or something he had done. He could never measure up to the idealistic image I had for how he should act.<\/p>\n

For instance, it seemed like common sense that because my husband stayed home with our kids and I was out working, it was his job to maintain the house. For me, that included keeping it very clean every single day, having dinner on the table when I got home, and listening to all of my complaints about work.<\/p>\n

Honestly, it\u2019s pretty embarrassing to admit that\u2019s how I felt, but years ago, I really did think those things were his job!<\/p>\n

Do you think I had an intimate marriage? I sure didn\u2019t. I was constantly unhappy, and he felt berated because he never measured up.<\/p>\n

What I didn\u2019t know then was the powerful skill would change not just my marriage, but my whole life<\/p>\n

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