Worth Repeating | Intimacy VS Control - You Can't Have Both | Ep. 625

Are you ever a bit too helpful in your marriage? Do you find yourself frustrated with the way your spouse responds to you?

You may be trying to control your spouse by “helping” even if you don’t mean to! 

Today Laura Doyle from the Empowered Wife Podcast joins Dr. Kim to teach us some ways to shift our marriage culture - without resorting to control tactics. Tune in to learn how! 

We pray this episode is helpful for you and your marriage. 

Episode highlights include:  

• Empowering ways to shift the culture of your marriage, even if your spouse isn’t on board

• “Cheat phrases” to help you shift from controlling tendencies to deeper intimacy   

• The unexpected lesson of sitting together getting nothing done! 

QUOTES:

• “Helpful in wife language is actually critical in husband language.” - Laura Doyle 

• “Couples just get stuck and they don't know what to do, and when someone does something different that’s positive, so many times the other person responds.” - Dr. Kim Kimberling 

• “Only happy people have happy marriages.” - Laura Doyle 

• “How does it change you to relinquish control? You become your best self. It’s a phenomenal thing.” - Laura Doyle 

• “We really don’t have control over anyone but ourselves anyway. Once you let go, God can work on you in a way He can’t when we’re holding on to control.” - Dr. Kim Kimberling 
  
  

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: 

• Find more of Laura’s content, including her free Empowered Wife Road Map on her website

• Check out Laura’s book, the Empowered Wife!

• Our 5 Days to Deeper Emotional Intimacy digital resource provides practical steps to understand and share your emotions, and to work together to grow your emotional intimacy…and it’s our gift to you for your donation of any amount.