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Mar 2023
1h 18m

172: Why Does My Husband Watch Porn?

Laura Doyle
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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 the Internet. You wonder if he's even a decent, moral person. Maybe he's addicted. And if he's watching porn but not having physical intimacy with you, then it can feel like porn is stealing something precious from you. Maybe you've told him to stop, only to find he does it in secret. That might strike terror into your heart. On today's episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, we're talking about why he watches porn.

Plus, my guest Erin was incredibly lonely but couldn't get her husband's time, attention or consideration. She lost all respect for him. Then she made some changes, and today he kisses her before leaving the house, tells her he loves her and wrote her a special card for their anniversary. She's going to tell us how she did it so you can do it too.

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