LISTEN TO THE SHOW: 5 Lessons from 200 Empowered Wife Interviews This is the 200th episode of the Empowered Wife Podcast, so first of all, let’s have some confetti! Yay! It’s because of you listening to this podcast every week, many of you more than once, that it’s been so successful. So thank you for listening, for thinking marriage is important enough to learn about and work on, because it

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: Why is My Husband so Defensive It’s annoying when you’re trying to have a conversation and your man either clams up and gets cold or raises his voice or starts arguing with you. It seems mysterious why he’s so riled up. If only he’d relax so you could have a normal conversation! I used to be so confused about why my husband would look exasperated when

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: Lack of Intimacy in Marriage Lacking emotional and physical intimacy in my marriage was miserable. With no deep conversations, flirting, or laughing together, I felt rejected and neglected, NOT desired, which is something really important to me. What’s the point of even being married?! After the connection and playfulness we used to have, I knew what I was missing, which made it even worse! Thinking this

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: How to Handle the Silent Treatment with Dignity The silent treatment can make you feel really bad and desperate to end the tension. It’s scary and takes up a lot of energy wondering how long it’s going to last, if it’s still on, and if there’s something you should be doing differently to fix it. It feels horribly rejecting when someone you love won’t speak to

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: Feeling Rejected by My Husband During Pregnancy Being pregnant is vulnerable. When you’re getting ready to welcome a baby, you want to feel secure about your future, to know that you’re loved and desired, that you’ll be protected and taken care of. So pregnancy is an especially scary time to feel rejected.  Pregnancy also messes with your body so much that you can also feel like

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: How to Fall Back in Love With Your Husband A coach recently shared with me that she decided to become a coach even though she didn’t love her husband because she wanted to be kinder. She was actually guarded against falling back in love. Then she spent a year becoming an expert on the 6 Intimacy Skills, practicing them at the highest level with her classmates.

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: 3 Signs Your Husband Is Not Supportive Now It feels terrible when the guy who used to trip over himself trying to help you is now interested only in staring at his phone or staying at work all the time. What a disappointment. Especially when you have so much to do and so many responsibilities because you set out to be partners but now he isn’t

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: My Husband and I Have Nothing to Talk About On today’s episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, we’re talking about what to do when you find yourself thinking, “Hey, my husband and I have nothing to talk about.” Because nothing feels lonelier than being married and just eating together in silence or living under the same roof but never having the deep conversations you’re craving.   I’ll

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: When He Doesn’t Love You Back It feels so rejecting when you find out your guy doesn’t love you back, like you’ve been let down in the worst way when you least expected it. Your head races with terrible thoughts about how this could have happened, whether it’s hopeless, and what it means for your future, which can seem so dark. Does it mean you’re not

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: Transform Your Marriage with the 6 Intimacy Skills™ If you are trying to practice the 6 Intimacy Skills in your relationship and it feels like they’re not working or you can’t remember to do them or you’re not sure how to do them in your situation, that’s so frustrating and discouraging! You are not the only one.  On this podcast, I interview women who have had

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: How to Communicate Your Needs in a Relationship It feels really bad when your husband doesn’t care about your needs, even when you tell him over and over.  But what if it’s not that he doesn’t care but that you haven’t been well trained on how to communicate your needs in your relationship, just like I wasn’t? I was a communications major in college, so I

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: How to Trigger a Man’s Hero Instinct Men are highly motivated to make their wives happy. Notice I didn’t say “some men” or “most men” but just “men.” That’s because in my research where I asked thousands of men how important it is that their wife is happy, they ALL said the same thing. That it’s the most important thing, everything, it’s of utmost importance, or

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: I Don’t Trust My Husband On today’s episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, we’re talking about what to do if you don’t trust your husband.  I’ll share an exciting, counterintuitive way for him to feel the full weight of his responsibilities.  Plus, my guest Kelsie didn’t trust her husband, and their arguments sometimes lasted for weeks. She worried they were just one argument from divorce, something

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: Living with an Addict On today’s episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast we’re talking about how to live with an addict. My guest Karyn was devastated by her husband’s addictions to porn, alcohol, drugs and gambling. When she tried to address those issues, he responded with rage. She realized that wasn’t working and learned a whole new approach to communicating her needs, and today she feels

LISTEN TO THE SHOW: How to be a Good Wife I was the perfect wife. Right up until I actually got married. That’s when it all went kablooey.  I worked so hard as a wife that I gave myself at least a nine out of ten. But I wasn’t scoring so high on the wife scale with John. That’s because I was actually an overbearing, prickly porcupine wife who thought