EPISODE 1 — Love Is Not Enough, And Nobody Told You That At The Wedding
A woman sat across from me. Twelve years married. Big house, a driver, a husband who had given her everything money could buy. And she told me she had never once felt lonelier than she did in her own marriage.
By the end of this episode, you'll hear exactly what she said next, the sentence that changed how I counsel every couple who walks into my room.
Welcome to Nobody Told Me Love Isn't Enough. I'm Anita Daniels, marriage counsellor, author, and founder of She Really Heals, and I've been married for thirty-three years. In this first episode, I'm asking the question nobody asks you before the wedding: what does love actually require of you?
We talk about why the feeling that gets you to the altar was never enough to carry you through it. Why most of us spend months planning a wedding and no time at all preparing for the marriage. And I'll tell you about Michael and Grace, married three years, both trying, both exhausted, who'd never once compared what love actually meant to each of them, and Priya and Jai, whose Sunday afternoon argument over a football match says more about how we love than either of them realised.
Whoever you are, engaged, married, single, or healing from something, and especially if you're listening from our African, Caribbean, or Asian communities, this one's for you.
You planned the wedding. Now prepare for the marriage. Still married. Still preparing. That's not a failure; that's the whole point.
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Love Isn't Enough by Anita Daniels
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GTJLR4BY
Audiobook available on Spotify
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