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Apr 2024
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228: 4 Significant Ways to Make Your Hus...

Laura Doyle
About this episode

If your man isn't happy, of course you want to cheer him up so you're not getting dragged down yourself, which is tiring. I thought I could make my husband happy by doing things for him that would've made me happy. I was doing a bunch of stuff I thought would make him happy that felt like a lot of work for me but was not working—at all—because he is so different from me. Sometimes it made him feel even worse, then we'd fight because he didn't appreciate all I was doing. Let's not both make that mistake. On today's episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, I'm talking about 4 significant ways to make your husband happy.

Plus, with no intimacy or communication, my guest Tracy's marriage felt on the brink of divorce. When she experimented with the 6 Intimacy Skills™, she was surprised to find out that her husband just wanted to make her happy. Today she is married to the man she always hoped to be. She's going to tell us how she did it so you can do it too.

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Here's what you'll get:

  • 6 SIMPLE steps to bring back playfulness, passion, and connection to your marriage.

  • The 3 COMMON mistakes wives make when trying to fix things (and how to avoid them!).

  • A clear, actionable plan to create the joyful, loving marriage you deserve.

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