Saturday morning, I was working on my marriage while I was on the beach playing volleyball with my buddies Kevin, Rana, and Scott. And nope, neither of those guys is my husband—he was at home bingeing Viking shows.

It was ridiculously fun—and not just because my setting was on fire! 🌞 But here’s the thing: when I got home, sweaty and sandy, I was still glowing from all that fun—and guess who was happy to see me so happy? Yep, my husband, John, was grinning ear to ear to see me.

Back when my marriage was falling apart, I thought self-care—by myself—would only highlight how distant John was. I couldn’t see how it could possibly help our relationship. But I was wrong.

What I didn’t realize was that my unhappiness was making me pretty… resistible.

When I started practicing four specific types of self-care, everything changed.

Volleyball might not be your thing (I don’t get it, but we can still be friends!), but here’s the truth: every woman needs these four categories of self-care. If you’re not getting them, it could be costing you intimacy and connection—just like it was at my house.

Want to feel more magnetic and desirable in your relationship? In this episode, I share the four self-care ideas every woman needs.

When Sofia asked for a separation, her husband blew up and gave her two days to move out! But when she tried the 6 Intimacy Skills™, their entire relationship changed. She got back the kind, sweet, caring, gentle man she married. On today’s episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, she’ll tell us how she did it so you can do it too.

Get more attention from your husband in 4 simple steps—without begging. You shouldn’t have to beg for attention from the man you married! That is so lonely, demoralizing and demeaning.

I remember the bad old days when my husband didn’t want to be around me, which were lousy. Fortunately, I learned a thing or two to turn that around completely.

So if you’re tired of begging for attention from your husband, you are in the right place.

Maybe you’re so ready for the hurting to end that you’re trying to figure out how to stop wanting attention from him.

But that never works. Plus, who wants that, really? I sure didn’t like it.

So I’ll raise you.

Learn how to get more attention from your husband in 4 simple steps on today’s episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast.

If your husband doesn’t turn in when you do and your schedules feel off, it gets lonely and you don’t get as much time together. It’s a big disconnect that’s not very intimate. But you can entice him to make bedtime “together time.” And help make the rest of your marriage happier and more intimate.

My guest Lolita did just that. Her husband would fall asleep on the sofa and she would lie in bed feeling angry and abandoned. Once she began to practice the Intimacy Skills in earnest, her marriage quickly became peaceful and joyful. Now they are happier than ever.

She’ll tell us how she did it so you can do it too. Check out today’s episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast: “My Husband Won’t Come to Bed with Me.”

You can restore your magnetism and draw your husband to you naturally—even if it seems hopeless now, like it did for me. When my husband was distant, I was so lonely and hurt. I couldn’t understand why the man I’d married didn’t want to talk to me or touch me.

Now that I know how to magnetize him effortlessly, 24/7, I just wish somebody would have told me back then. So today, I’m sharing 3 powerful ways to draw your husband to you so that there’s no distance and you feel loved just for being yourself.

I’m Laura Doyle, NYT bestselling author and marriage mentor. I was the perfect wife…until I got married.

This is The Empowered Wife Podcast, where real women share exactly what they did and said to make their hopeless marriages playful and passionate. If you think that knowing how to have a great marriage is important, subscribe now!

If your husband doesn’t express his emotions or communicate the way you want him to, you may have wondered if he’s neurodiverse, just like my guest Sarah did.

She was depressed but also excited when she realized her husband was neurodiverse because she felt she’d found the key to fixing her struggling marriage after years of trying everything else.

But it was something else entirely that helped her make her marriage loving, passionate and full of possibility again. She’ll tell us how she did it so you can do it too.

Can you ever have a playful, passionate marriage to a man with neurodiversity? Sarah has that now, so let’s find out how she did it!

If you've ever experienced verbal abuse, you know how devastating, demeaning and cruel it is. You know how destructive it is to your self-esteem.

When that hurtful scenario keeps recurring, it seems the only sane thing to do is get away from that abusive person at least temporarily and possibly permanently.

But when that person is your husband, someone you’ve built a life with—sworn to love, honor and respect—and have children with, it’s not so easy to tear apart your family. But you don’t want to live with ongoing verbal abuse either! Nobody should have to live with that.

What if you could reduce the blow-ups? What if they dwindled down to hardly ever? Or even none at all?

I wouldn’t have believed that was possible if I hadn’t seen it in my own marriage. And now that I’ve also witnessed thousands of other women use the Connection Framework to create the same peaceful, even playful outcome in their marriages, I’m a believer.

You don’t have to take my word for it—you can see for yourself by experimenting in your own relationship. Learn what victims of verbal abuse have done to create peace, connection, and playfulness in their relationships.

Sometimes, such victims make one of two common mistakes that worsen the abuse. It’s shocking because I remember feeling so hopeless and helpless about this in my marriage, I was offended by the idea that I was making any mistakes besides having married the wrong person!

But I was making these two mistakes that were within my control to fix…

Do you worry about your husband drinking too much—or, worse, driving after drinking and all the heartache that could cause? Then you’ve got to hear Amanda’s story.

She had already been struggling with her husband’s lies, stonewalling, depression, and alcoholism when he was arrested for driving under the influence. That’s what made her look for help and find a book that changed everything. Now he’s sober, and they talk, flirt, and snuggle like teenagers in love.

Learn how she used that crisis as a catalyst to build a stronger, more connected marriage.

How did she find hope, strength, and a way forward? And what do you need to know if you’re in a crisis, too? You’re about to find out!