LISTEN TO THE SHOW: When the Intimacy Skills Don’t Work for You As a listener of The Empowered Wife Podcast, you may have found yourself feeling hopeful that you could make your marriage last and thrive, like you’re hearing about every week from the wives who share their stories.  Maybe you got inspired to read or listen to the audiobook The Empowered Wife, where the Six Intimacy Skills™ are laid

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: Why Husbands Come Back after Leaving for Another Woman  If your husband cheated and left you, it’s one of the most heart-wrenching things anyone can go through. When the man who vowed to love you for better or worse betrays you, it affects your self-esteem, your health, your family, every aspect of your life. No one deserves to be treated that way. If you’ve been through

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: 3 Steps to a More Attentive Spouse If you’re begging for attention in a relationship, it is so lonely, demoralizing and even demeaning. You shouldn’t have to beg for attention from the man you married! I remember the bad old days when my husband didn’t want to be around me, and they were lousy. Fortunately, I learned a thing or two to turn that around completely.

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: 3 Secrets You Need to Know if Your Marriage Is Unhappy Are you stuck in an unhappy marriage but can’t leave? Maybe you don’t want to see your family torn apart, so you grin (at least sometimes) and bear it. But at what cost? It’s all so painful: the frustration of not being able to communicate with the one you love, the overwhelm and resentment at

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: 2 Ways to Make a Rageaholic Be Respectful If your husband keeps getting angry, you’re not alone. When he blows a fuse at you or the kids, it can be really hurtful and scary. When it happens again and again, then it has a way of making you angry too. Especially if he jumps down your throat at the smallest things, like how you stock the

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: How to Be Optimistic about Your Marriage If you’re asking yourself if there’s hope for your marriage, it means you’re going through a lot of heartache. After all, no one asks that about a marriage that’s full of hand-holding and sweet nothings. That question comes up only when you’re incredibly hurt and angry, and you’ve been feeling that way for a long time. Even though it

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: 3 Steps to Prep for Relationship Coaching If you’re considering relationship coaching to make your marriage last and thrive, you’ve probably already read articles and books about relationships. Maybe you’ve been to couples or individual counseling, and you know that drill. So you may be wondering how coaching is really any different. And why would you need to prepare for it anyway? Isn’t that like cleaning

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: 5 Ways to Be Supportive in a Relationship When your husband is going through a tough time, it’s pretty hard to just stand by and watch without wanting to help him or fix things somehow. It’s agonizing to see him suffering, and why should he struggle when you’re right there ready to support him? Especially if you have solutions for him that, if he would only

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: 3 Steps to Get Your Husband to Love You Again If your husband stops loving you or says he never did, it can feel like your world is falling apart. It’s a shock that’s heart-wrenching and gut-wrenching. How are you supposed to make him want you when he’ll barely give you the time of day? There is hope, even if it feels hopeless right now. On

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: 4 Changes to Make to Save Your Marriage What can you change about yourself to save your marriage? If you’re asking that question, my hat is off to you. Wanting to change myself is not what got me here–I wanted to change my husband! On today’s episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast we’re talking about four changes to make to save your marriage. I’ll share the

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: 2 Solutions when Your Husband Hoards If your husband keeps stuff in the garage, stuff in the yard, stuff in the dining room, stuff in the bedroom and more stuff in the living room, it can feel suffocating. Especially if most of it is junk. The trash that nobody would want is standing between you and having the tidy home you dream of. And if you’ve

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: 3 Responses for a Husband Who’s Never Wrong If your husband makes you feel bad about yourself, that’s not right. You should not be treated like you don’t matter. If he then turns everything around on you, as if it’s all your fault, it’s extra hurtful. Especially when you’re doing all the work to try to make things better but he makes no effort to change,

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: When Your Husband Never Does Anything Special for You If your husband never does anything romantic, it’s just sad. You know he’s capable of being sweeter. I bet he turned on the charm to get that ring on you. But now that you’ve put in all the hard work to build a life together, it’s like he values you less, not more. If you want to

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: How to Know What You’re Feeling and What To Do About It  One of the things I was not very good at back in the bad old days was knowing how I felt. Even if I did know how I was feeling, I didn’t know what to do about it. So I mostly complained! That was all I knew to do. But it wasn’t good for

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: How to Use Your Feminine Gifts in Marriage: Part 2 Sometimes when I’m talking to a woman who’s struggling in her relationship and I mention feeling desired, cherished and adored, she looks disbelieving. That’s too pie-in-the-sky for her. Sure, she wants him to stop playing video games all the time, take out the trash before it’s overflowing and pay more attention to her. Or if her