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

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: The Empowered Wife Workshop I first taught the Six Intimacy Skills™ to women in my living room. When there were too many of us to fit in the room, I started offering workshops at hotel meeting rooms, community centers, conference centers, churches, and a mosque a few times, across the U.S. Many women traveled a long way just to be at these in-person events. They’d bring

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: Can a Relationship Be Saved after Domestic Violence? Physical abuse in your own home is one of the scariest things you can experience. If you’re not safe with your own husband, then when are you ever safe? Everyone who knows you and loves you may get scared too and say you have to get out of that relationship. Then it seems pretty hopeless and even foolish

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: What to Give Him for Valentine’s Day Last week my guest Suzette mentioned she had come across my blog on what your husband really wants for Valentine’s Day and experimented with those suggestions and they worked! I asked her to go into detail about what it said, and neither of us could remember. Since it’s the week before Valentine’s Day, I got inspired to share this

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: Step-by-Step Instructions on Fixing Your Marriage (The New EW book) When I first interviewed happily married women on their secrets, they said these crazy things that made no sense to me. But I was desperate enough to try what they said, and that’s when I got my miracle. My husband showed up like the man who had wooed me again, the one I’d fallen in love