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106: Insights from the Husband of a Ridiculously Happy Wife: Part 3

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: Insights from the Husband of a Ridiculously Happy Wife: Part 3 My guest, Dr. Ben, is not a student on our campus but rather the husband of a student–and the father of two of our coaches! He agreed to be part of our Man Panel series, and today I’ll get his perspective on the changes in his family as a result of his wife and two

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105: Insights from the Husband of a Ridiculously Happy Wife: Part 2

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: Insights from the Husband of a Ridiculously Happy Wife: Part 2 On today’s episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast we’re talking about insights from the husband of a ridiculously happy wife (part 2). My guest Antonio is not a student or a book reader but rather the husband of a coach trainee. He generously agreed to be part of our Man Panel series! He’ll share his

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104: Insights from the Husband of a Ridiculously Happy Wife: Part 1

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: Insights from the Husband of a Ridiculously Happy Wife: Part 1 On today’s episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, I’m sharing insights from the husband of a Ridiculously Happy Wife. My guest, Len, is not a student or a book reader but rather the husband of a recently certified coach. He generously agreed to be part of our Man Panel series, and today I’m going to

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103: How to Get More Couple Time with a Workaholic

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: How to Get More Couple Time with a Workaholic It’s lonely to be married to a workaholic. If he’s not at work, he’s sleeping or working from home. Or he’s too tired from working so much to be much fun. He neglects not just you but also the kids. You feel like a single mom going to get-togethers without him, always for the same old reason:

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102: Should You Fake it Sometimes?

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: Should You Fake It? And when I say “fake it,” of course I’m talking about pretending you respect your husband even if you’re not feeling it because he doesn’t seem to deserve your respect. Wait, what did you think we were going to talk about? Oh, you thought I was going to talk about faking it in the bedroom! Funny you would bring that up while

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101: Using the Six Intimacy Skills With Everybody!

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: Using the Six Intimacy Skills™ with Everybody!  Can you think of someone you have a difficult time with? Whether it’s a family member, colleague, someone in your circle of friends, who in your life is driving you buggy? If you have someone in mind, good! Because today’s episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast is about using the Six Intimacy Skills with everybody. You get to be

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100: The Magic of Telling Your Marriage Story

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: The Magic of Telling Your Marriage Story  When you have unpleasant things happening at your house, things that seem embarrassing or shameful, you tend to keep them a secret. At least that was my strategy early on and that of many of my students. We didn’t want anyone to know that our marriages were dysfunctional, distant, and falling apart. There aren’t many places you can go

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099: How to Cope When He’s Mentally Ill

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: How to Cope When He’s Mentally Ill Let’s say you get a diagnosis for your husband. So you finally know What’s Wrong with Him. Now what? Let’s imagine that the problems in your marriage are NOT because of your husband having a mental illness. Let’s say him being passive aggressive, bipolar, exhibiting adolescent syndrome, or having ADD, OCD or NPD is not what keeps you sleeping

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098: 3 Ways to Break Your Family Patterns

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: 3 Ways to Break Your Family Patterns If you’re having a breakdown in your marriage, you may be playing out a pattern you learned in your family. Whether your parents are divorced, never married or are married to this day, maybe they don’t have the kind of marriage you want to emulate. There probably was no Relationships 101 at school, so where were you supposed to

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097: 3 Moves to Restore Peace after a Fight

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: 3 Moves to Restore Peace after a Fight If you’re anything like I was, some fights come up in your relationship more often than a hit song plays on Top 40 radio. You don’t want to have the same fight over and over, but it keeps happening. You’re just talking about the leftovers from dinner and next thing you know, your mother–who isn’t present–is involved, and

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096: 3 Mistakes Wives Make Trying to Get His Time and Attention

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: 3 Mistakes Wives Make Trying to Get His Time and Attention Wouldn’t it be a wonderful world if marriage came with an easy-to-follow instruction manual? But since it doesn’t, most women bumble along trying out relationship advice from the hair salon, well-meaning friends or even strangers at bars. There’s a lot of bad relationship advice floating around disguised as “common sense.” Maybe that’s why so many

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095: How to Get Past Cheating

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: How to Get Past Cheating An affair is a betrayal that hurts like crazy and seems like it could be impossible to recover from, both personally and as a couple. It’s human to want to make him hurt too, to yell and throw things. It’s irresistible to berate him. From crying in your ice cream to asking your sister “How could he do this to me?”

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094: 3 Insights from 20 Years of Empowering Wives

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: 3 Insights from 20 Years of Empowering Happy Wives Over twenty years ago, I was shocked to find out that I could single-handedly make my crumbling marriage thrive using the 6 Intimacy Skills. It was mind-blowing to go from feeling like I’d exhausted every option to try to fix my broken marriage to finding out that I had so much power I could find the switch

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093: How To Be Vulnerable In A Relationship

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: How to Be Vulnerable in a Relationship Why would you even want to be vulnerable in a relationship? It doesn’t feel like I’m showing my beautiful, tender side. I usually feel squishy and embarrassed or shy, and my instinct is to avoid that whenever possible. So it feels weird to be vulnerable on purpose, but that’s my plan. Sounds crazy, right? Stick with me here. When

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092: Top Secret: I’m Fixing My Marriage. Don’t Tell My Husband

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: Top Secret: I’m Fixing My Marriage. Don’t Tell My Husband When I started fixing my marriage, I really didn’t want my husband to know! And I know I’m not alone here. It’s nice to have the freedom to experiment without your husband asking about it–or being your armchair coach. The last thing you want is having an experiment go wrong and hearing “I told you so!”

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