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  • Six Surprising Secrets for Attracting Your Husband's Time, Attention and Affection
  • By: Laura Doyle
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  • Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (41 ratings)
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Summary

Laura Doyle's marriage was in trouble, and couples counseling wasn't helping. On the brink of divorce, she decided to talk to women who'd been happily married for more than a decade, and their advice stunned her. Now an internationally recognized relationship expert, Doyle has shared her secrets with women around the globe, saving thousands of marriages with her fresh, revolutionary approach.

Practical and counterintuitive, the six intimacy skills are about focusing on your own desires and transforming your own life - not bending over backward to transform your husband. Incorporating these skills will empower you to: attract his attention like a magnet when you relax more and do less; receive affection not because you told him to make more of an effort, but because he naturally seeks you out; and 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.

©2017 Laura Doyle (P)2021 Tantor

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Life changing

I have just started practising the 6 intimacy skills but can already sense that it has totally changed my perspective on my marriage and filled me with hope and joy. I cannot recommend it enough and will make it my mission to self-improve and be a living testimony of the Lord Jesus through a happy and prosperous marriage. Who knows, I might become a coach one day…

God bless you Laura

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Perfect for my marriage!

Loved this book. Opened my eyes as a wife, I learnt so many skills. Thank you.

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JUST GET IT

Laura is very good at narrating and will bust some myths for ya, Empowering listen - just get it :)

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A brilliant self help book

This is a brilliant book that helps you rekindle your relationship not only with your significant other but also with the most important person in your life … YOU!

Laura Doyle gives you realistic and clear methods to implement in your life using examples. You won’t be disappointed with this book.

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The Empowered wife

The six steps are practicable principles to rejuvenate any relationship no matter how dead it looks… if there is willingness to try

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Must read! If you’re humble!

Recommend to me from a counsellor, I’ve read many psychology books ect. This was the biggest mirror! (For marriage) Saw stuff I didn’t see as a problem before, stuff that was very damaging! To hear about what to change is one thing but to be shown how step by step was completely new! And soooo helpful!

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Patronising

I didn't like this book in the slightest, I didn't find it empowering more patronising on women and how to basically roll over. I wanted to understand my husband better and why he treats me the way he does, but I am living with a narrsassist. if you think this book can help you it won't it will just push you deeper in an unhappy unhealthy relationship where you think everything is your fault.

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What?

If you believe that ‘male culture’ and its values are sacrosanct, require unquestioning ‘respect’ , (respect not being so important to us women) and that your husband somehow should never come to realise that the 1950s are over, then this is for you. If your highest aspiration is having your nails done (or your hair) then this is for you. If you have an opinion of your own about the way your husband chooses to do anything at all - beware! You should not discuss problems with each other- marriage councillors have all got it wrong. Just apologise for your disrespectful attitude and get back to your proper female preoccupations. Oh - and be constantly available for ‘intimacy’ -its what we girlies are all desperately craving.

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Frustrating Overall

Each chapter begins with comparing how marriage counselling won't help you, but the author's 6 intimacy skills will. I appreciate that marriage counselling didn't work for the author, but why jam it down our throat? It felt like we were being sold to the whole way through. That chapter about why husbands are better finances than wives is in antiquated and downright insulting, especially for our modern world. Women/Wives need to be encouraged to be financially empowered where both are contributing and having a say on how finances are managed, not encouraged to hand over the finances to their husbands so they have more time "for other things."
This book only frustrated me as the chapters went on, presenting with many outdated concepts that women have worked hard at overcoming. The whole premise of this book is to glorify your husband, all the while you becoming the pretty little wife who just "smiles and nods" and says, "Whatever you think, dear."

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