353: How I Got Close to My Emotionally Distant Husband

The Empowered Wife Podcast by Laura Doyle

Aug 25, 202601:12:12Society & Culture

Rachel felt a distance she could never explain from day one. One explosive fight revealed the truth: her husband was struggling with an addiction to painkillers and had been hiding it from her since the day they married....

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