LISTEN TO THE SHOW: 3 Signs Your Marriage Is in Trouble When you’re wondering whether the relationship is over for him, you’re worried that you are going to be left. You’re scared of being abandoned and you want to know the future so you can prepare and somehow soften the blow to your heart. If you just knew one way or the other, you could cut your losses and stop

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: 2 Cures for an Emotionally Detached Husband When your husband is there but not there, it’s lonely. It’s also stressful and exhausting. When you’re reaching out trying to get reassurance and he doesn’t respond, it only reinforces how disconnected you are, which hurts. A lot. If this goes on for a long time, you feel a wave of hopelessness that it will never get better because

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: This Happens When Your Marriage Drama Ends When my marriage was full of drama, it was incredibly taxing. I felt so overwhelmed and consumed by our problems. It was painful and exhausting to fight all the time and to feel so hopeless that it would ever get better. It robbed me of energy for other relationships, work, and having fun.  What I know now is that

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: 3 Actions to Take if Your Husband Looks at Other Females Online When you fell in love with your husband, he made you feel beautiful, sexy and special. So it can be crushing to find out that he’s looking at other women online. It can make you feel undesirable, disappointed and less-than, not to mention lowering your opinion of him. Why would he sink so low

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: What to Do if He Doesn’t Want You Anymore and It Hurts If he doesn’t want you anymore, it does hurt—really bad. Whether his actions are speaking louder than words and he’s too busy to spend time with you or he’s saying he doesn’t want you and making plans to leave or has already left, it can give you the excruciating impression that you’re unlovable. And

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: 5 Ways to Maintain Balance in a Relationship When things were out of balance in my marriage, I was seething with resentment about my husband not doing enough chores or making enough money, which left me having to make up for him in both areas. I also had to control the finances since we were always so close to the edge and I knew he wouldn’t

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: 3 Tips to Deal with Relationship Doubts Everybody has doubts about their relationship from time to time. It’s painful when you feel like your values don’t match, or he’s engaging in behavior that you never would have condoned, or his parenting is not at all what you see your children needing to thrive.  What if those doubts make you question your own judgment about having said

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: The Adored Wife Roadmap A student named Gigi told me she wanted intimacy in her marriage but didn’t really know what it looked like. “I’ve been married for over 20 years,” she confessed, “and I feel like I just don’t even know what intimacy is.” I knew what she meant because I was similarly baffled early in my marriage. Was intimacy purely physical–just another way to

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: 3 Signs Your Marriage Is in Trouble When your marriage is suffering, you know it because you’re worried. And you’re scared something bad will happen to your family, like getting broken beyond repair. But how do you know whether your relationship is really in trouble or just going through a phase that everybody goes through? On today’s episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, we’re talking about

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: What Makes a Marriage Last Forever? When you first say the words “I do,” the idea that your marriage will last forever feels like a given. Of course it will! That’s why you’re committing for life in front of God and everybody! You met the right person, who miraculously felt all melty with you just like you did with him. Your marriage will definitely last forever

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: 5 Ways to Fix a Sexless Marriage If you’re anything like me, you love feeling desired. When the physical passion is missing or rare in your relationship, it makes you feel undesirable, which is an awful feeling. You wonder if the extra pounds or wrinkles are turning him off or if there’s something wrong with him. Either way, it’s lonely, painful and confusing. But it doesn’t

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: What Is Cheating in a Relationship If you’re asking yourself what cheating is, that means you’re already between a rock and a hard place trying to figure out what to do.  Like, what if he’s sending inappropriate flirty messages to his ex from high school but you know he hasn’t seen her in person? Or he’s texting a female colleague all the time and won’t show

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: 3 Things You Can’t Forgive in a Relationship Everybody knows there are some things you can’t just forgive in marriage. You’re probably already thinking of them right now before I say them, right?  Like abuse. Physical, emotional or verbal. It’s terrible. Two is being cheated on. Whether he’s going to prostitutes or has another woman, it makes you feel like a doormat and a fool. It’s

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: 7 Resources for Fixing Your Marriage When your marriage is falling apart, it can be pretty hard to know exactly what to do next, except for going to marriage counseling. Everyone knows that’s what you’re supposed to do if your marriage is falling apart, only it didn’t work for my husband and me–or for thousands of students on the Laura Doyle campus either.  So what can

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: My Husband Doesn’t Understand Me We all want to feel seen, heard and understood. If you’re not feeling understood, it’s like you’re missing a nutrient in your diet, and you start to feel malnourished. I remember feeling this way when I’d listen to my husband talk endlessly about something he was interested in and then as soon as I brought up something I was interested in,