The Empowered Wife, Updated and Expanded Edition: Six Surprising Secrets for Attracting Your Husband's Time, Attention, and Affection

by Laura Doyle

Overview

From internationally recognized relationship expert Laura Doyle, this updated and expanded edition of The Empowered Wife will help women revitalize their marriages—featuring real success stories and foolproof tips.

When Laura Doyle was on the brink of divorce, she decided to talk to women who’d been happily married for more than a decade. Their advice stunned her. From it, she distilled woman-centric practices that ended her frustration and resentment, restoring the playfulness and passion in her own marriage.

Doyle has shared her secrets with women around the globe, saving thousands of marriages with her fresh, revolutionary approach and Six Intimacy Skills. Practical and counterintuitive, her newly updated Connection Framework is about focusing on your own desires and transforming your own life—not bending over backward to change your husband.

Incorporating these skills will empower you to:

• Attract his attention like a magnet when you relax more and do less
• Get back to your bliss when he seems distant
• Receive affection not because you told him to make more of an effort, but because he naturally seeks you out
• Feel more like yourself—and like yourself more

If you’ve been trying to “fix” your relationship and it’s not working, maybe the problem was never you or your husband—or even the two of you as a couple. Maybe the problem is that nobody ever taught you the skills you need to foster respect, tenderness, and consideration.

With humor and heart, The Empowered Wife, Updated and Expanded Edition will show you how to improve your relationship in ways you hadn’t thought possible. You’ll join a worldwide community of hundreds of thousands of empowered wives who finally have the marriages they dreamed of when they said “I do.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781637742266
Publisher:	BenBella Books
Publication date:	01/10/2023
Edition description:	Updated and Expanded
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

New York Times bestselling author Laura Doyle was the perfect wife . . . until she actually got married. When she told her husband how to be tidier, more romantic and more ambitious, he avoided her. So she dragged him to marriage counseling, and nearly divorced him. In desperation, she asked happily married women for their secrets . . . And that’s when she got her miracle. The man who wooed her returned.

Laura’s books have been translated into 19 languages in 30 countries and started a worldwide movement of women who practice the 6 Intimacy Skills. She founded an international relationship coach training school, is the star of Empowered Wives on Amazon Prime, and the host of The Empowered Wife Podcast. Laura has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America and The View. But the thing she’s most proud of is her gratifying 33 year marriage with her hilarious husband John, who has been dressing himself since before she was born.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the New Edition xi

Prologue: The Breakdown Before the Breakthrough xiii

Quiz: Can You Tell the Good Relationship Advice from the Bad Advice? xxi

1 Empowerment Wears a Disguise 1

2 Wives, Marriage Is Up to You 13

The Six Intimacy Skills™

Skill #1 Replenish Your Spirit with Self-Care 23

3 You Are Not a Smaller, Less Hairy Man 25

4 The More You Know What You Want, the Better 33

5 Express Your Desires in a Way That Inspires 43

6 Happy Wives Phone a Friend 53

Skill #2 Restore Respect 57

7 What Were You Thinking When You Said Yes to the Dress? 59

8 Your Husband Doesn't Want Your Opinion 69

9 Why Wives Cause Most Divorces and What to Do instead 77

10 Your Husband is Smarter Than You Think 85

11 Pretend You Love Your Husband More Than Your Children 93

12 Dishonesty Is the Best Policy 101

Skill #3 Relinquish Control of Your Man 115

13 Stay on Your Own Paper 117

14 Communication Is Overrated 125

15 Top 10 Ways to Control Your Husband (None of These Work) 135

16 Get Him to Do More by Doing Less 145

17 Your Husband Is Better with Money Than You Are 153

Skill #4 Receive, Receive, Receive! 173

18 How to Get More Gifts, Compliments, and Help 175

Skill #5 Reveal Your Heart with Vulnerability 195

19 What Made Your Man Fall for You (and Still Melts Him Every Time) 197

20 The Myth of Verbal Abuse 209

21 How to Get off the Fence and Be Happy About It 215

22 How to Get Your Husband Back 223

23 Why Sex Is Better When You're Married (and What to Do If It's Not) 233

Skill #6 Refocus Your View with Gratitude 243

24 The Most Powerful Intimacy Skill of All 245

25 The Power of the Spouse-Fulfilling Prophecy 251

26 The Connection Framework 263

27 Ending World Divorce 273

Acknowledgments 279

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Laura Doyle does it again . . . and this time, she’s not alone. The anecdotes from other women underline her lesson: women hold the key to improving our marriages.”
—Fawn Weaver, New York Times bestselling author of Happy Wives Club

Editorial Reviews

“Laura Doyle truly understands how the modern
marriage works . . . Eye-opening and marriage-saving!”
—John Gray, PHD, author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

“Laura Doyle does it again . . . and this time, she’s not alone. The anecdotes from other women underline her lesson: women hold the key to improving our marriages.”
—Fawn Weaver, New York Times bestselling author of Happy Wives Club

“Laura Doyle truly understands how the modern
marriage works . . . Eye-opening and marriage-saving!”
—John Gray, PHD, author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

“Laura Doyle does it again . . . and this time, she’s not alone. The anecdotes from other women underline her lesson: women hold the key to improving our marriages.”
—Fawn Weaver, New York Times bestselling author of Happy Wives Club

From the Publisher