LISTEN TO THE SHOW: My Husband Betrayed Me There’s no worse feeling than discovering your worst fear has come true and that the man you promised to love, honor and cherish has done the unspeakable. It’s crushing.  If most people knew what he did, they would tell you “He doesn’t deserve you.” Which feels validating because what he did was low and wrong, and you don’t deserve that. But no

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: Emotionally Unavailable Husband My guest Robyn was doing life by herself, lonely and disconnected from her emotionally unavailable husband. But then she did something that made her stop crying and made the arguments stop. Today she feels cherished and is her husband’s “chooky” again. She’s going to tell us how she did it so you can do it too!  On today’s episode of The Empowered Wife

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: My Husband Blames Me For Everything For years, my guest Tilly’s husband threatened her with divorce. They argued constantly and she was living in fear. Then she started doing some experiments, and the results were so positive that she says she has no fear because her marriage is now peaceful and strong. She’s going to tell us how she did it so you can do it

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: Is Marriage Counseling Worth It? On today’s episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, we’re talking about why marriage is important.  My guest Anne was separated for over two years, and her husband started seeing another woman. When Anne started with the Intimacy Skills, he responded very negatively. But today their marriage is passionate, loving, romantic, fun, goofy, supportive and better than ever.  How did she do

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: Best Marriage Support Group Looking for a good marriage support group is so smart because we humans are social creatures who tend to do what we see others doing. If someone you know is getting divorced, that puts pressure on your relationship. But if you’re spending time with people who are not only staying married but also talking about how they’re improving their marriages, even if

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: 3 Secrets to Rebuilding Trust in Marriage If you’re trying to fathom how you could ever rebuild the trust in your marriage, it means you’ve had it broken in a big way. That’s so painful and scary because it seems permanent! If he let you down, you may feel like you’d be a sucker to trust him again. Whether he lied, cheated or spent money recklessly,

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: Is Marriage Counseling Worth It? If you and I have been hanging out together for a while on this podcast, then you already know how I feel now about marriage canceling, I mean marriage counseling.  So don’t even get me started! Who even approved this topic for the podcast anyway? But there is one very specific kind of marriage counseling that I believe can help, which

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: Ending World Divorce Update I’m on a mission to end world divorce and know that you are too. Now imagine how great it will be when the social norm is that couples stay together. I don’t mean they suck it up and stay together in separate rooms for the kids. No, I mean they stay together because there’s a culture that when you’re going through a

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: Married to an Angry Man Being married to an angry man is scary because it’s unpredictable. It’s only natural to make like a turtle and retreat into your shell because it can really hurt to get the brunt of his anger. Your brain works overtime thinking of ways to protect yourself, which is exhausting and stressful.  It can also make you feel like you need to

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: Your Journey to Becoming a Ridiculously Happy Wife When you’re struggling in your marriage because you’re getting hurt, neglected or criticized, it’s so discouraging and draining.  Maybe your husband has a big character defect that is dragging you down and you don’t see it ever changing, so it doesn’t seem possible to become a ridiculously happy wife. And that’s especially true if you’ve been practicing the

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: Marriage and Money: How to Handle Finances in Marriage If only getting married made your finances as cinchy as economists make it sound. Sharing the rent or mortgage, grocery bills and utilities saves so much money, there should be less financial strain on you both, not more. Study after study shows that married couples are at the top of the financial heap for net worth and

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: 3 Unrealistic Expectations in Marriage Getting married and expecting it to look a certain way then getting let down when it’s not is so discouraging. It can even put your marriage at risk.  These are the top 3 expectations I had in my marriage that STILL come up for me sometimes and for many of our students too. So see if you also identify with having

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: Top 5 Signs Your Marriage Won’t Last If your husband is saying it’s over or he’s more interested in someone else, that’s terrifying and painful. It’s tempting to believe that it’s not up to you whether your marriage will last. On today’s episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, we’re talking about the top 5 signs your marriage won’t last. I’ll share the REAL question to ask

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: Why Does My Husband Watch Porn? When you discover that your husband watches porn, it can feel really bad, disrespectful even. Here you’re his only partner in the bedroom, but he’s watching other women do nasty things on his phone. It’s so disappointing, and so revolting. It can also make you feel pretty unspecial knowing that your husband watches an endless parade of strange women on

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: Top 3 Reasons There’s No Passion in Your Marriage When there’s no passion in your marriage, it’s a huge disappointment because that’s a big part of the allure of marriage. You vowed to love in sickness and in health partly because you felt so irresistible when he made bedroom eyes or swept you into his arms and told you how beautiful you are. But when that