GoodGuys2GreatMen Video Podcast

Get Your Spark Back & Attract Your Wife Again

Dan Dore & Steve Horsmon • 6m 25s • 19 February 2023

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Video overview: If your marriage has lost affection, respect, desire, and fun, it’s easy to think your wife holds the key to getting it all back. This video is about one of the foundational teachings we give men: when you rebuild your own passion, direction, and self-confidence, you become a man your wife can feel differently again.

If you want to attract your wife again, the first place most men look is at her.

What is she thinking? What is she feeling? Why doesn’t she want sex? Why doesn’t she respect me? Why doesn’t she reach for me? Why doesn’t she laugh with me like she used to?

Those are understandable questions.

When your marriage lacks affection, respect, desire, and intimacy, it hurts. It can feel like the woman you love has slowly moved away from you while still living in the same house. You may still be sharing the same bed, the same bills, the same kitchen, the same family calendar, and the same daily routines.

But something important feels missing.

The spark is gone. The playfulness is gone. The easy touch is gone. The feeling that she sees you as her man, not just her roommate, co-parent, or household partner, is gone too.

That can make a man start trying too hard.

He tries to get her attention. He tries to be nicer. He tries to help more. He tries to say the right thing. He tries to bring up the lack of intimacy without sounding needy, angry, or pathetic.

And still, nothing changes.

So he starts losing confidence.

That’s when the whole relationship can get heavier. Instead of bringing warmth, strength, humor, and direction into the marriage, he starts bringing uncertainty. He starts wondering if he’s still attractive. He starts measuring himself by her mood, her desire, her tone, and whether she gave him any affection today.

Brother, that is no way to live.

And it’s not very attractive either.

This video is about one of the foundational teachings we give to men because it changes the whole direction of the work. If you want more fun, connection, passion, and intimacy, you cannot keep making your wife the source of your confidence.

You have to become a man with your own passion again.

Your own direction.

Your own self-respect.

Your own sense of aliveness.

That doesn’t mean you stop loving her. It doesn’t mean you stop wanting her. It doesn’t mean you act indifferent, cold, or superior. I’m not talking about playing games or pretending you don’t care.

I’m talking about becoming a man who feels good to himself again.

Most men don’t realize how much passion they’ve lost. They think the problem is only that their wife has become distant. And maybe she has. Maybe she’s cold, checked out, resentful, exhausted, or uninterested right now.

But the question is, what happened to you?

Where did your spark go? Where did your boldness go? Where did your humor, direction, playfulness, and confidence go? Where did the man go who used to have his own energy, his own purpose, his own edge, his own life?

A lot of men lose that man slowly.

They become providers. Problem-solvers. Peacekeepers. Fixers. Nice guys. Responsible husbands. Hard workers. Men who keep the outside game moving but quietly stop feeling alive inside.

Then they look to their wife to bring the life back.

They wait for her affection to make them feel confident. They wait for her desire to make them feel masculine. They wait for her respect to make them feel strong.

That is backwards.

Your wife can respond to your confidence, but she cannot be the source of it. She can enjoy your passion, but she cannot create it for you. She can feel your direction, but she cannot give you one.

That part is yours.

And when a man starts taking that part seriously, everything begins to shift.

He stops walking into the room silently asking, “Do you want me yet?” He stops making every kiss, hug, or lack of touch mean something terrible about his worth. He stops trying to get intimacy from a place of lack.

He starts creating a better emotional climate.

He brings humor because he feels lighter. He brings honesty because he’s less afraid. He brings desire without pressure. He brings direction without control. He brings confidence without arrogance.

That is a very different man to be around.

And yes, that kind of man is more attractive.

Not because he found a line or a trick. Not because he finally learned how to manipulate his wife into wanting him. Because he stopped outsourcing his inner life to her response.

This matters right now because the longer a marriage sits in low affection and low desire, the easier it is for both people to settle into a dead pattern. You become careful. She becomes guarded. You become resentful. She becomes distant. You stop risking fun because rejection hurts too much.

And the whole thing gets colder.

If you want to lead it somewhere better, you have to start with the man you bring into the marriage.

Are you bringing life?

Are you bringing strength?

Are you bringing clarity?

Are you bringing a man who knows what he wants and likes who he is becoming?

That’s the work.

Not to become perfect. Not to guarantee any specific response from your wife. But to become the kind of man you respect again.

Because when you respect yourself, you show up differently. You speak differently. You touch differently. You listen differently. You handle rejection differently. You stop turning the marriage into a test of whether you’re enough.

And from that place, fun, connection, passion, and intimacy have a real chance to breathe again.

Bring yourself back to life

If your marriage has lost affection, respect, desire, or fun, you don’t have to keep chasing your wife’s response to feel confident. We can help you rebuild your passion, direction, and self-respect so you can lead from a stronger, more alive place.

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About the Hosts

Steve Horsmon & Dan Dore | Certified Professional Men’s Coach

Steve Horsmon and Dan Dore have spent over a decade supporting good men who are confused, frustrated, and afraid that their marriages and families are falling apart with no idea what to do about it. We've both experienced the same emotions that you're going through now. We know what it feels like to try all the mainstream try harder, be nicer advice while watching things continue to get worse. And that's exactly why Goodguys2Greatmen exists. Since 2012, we've coached thousands of men through some of the hardest periods of their lives; marriage breakdown, emotional distance, sexless relationships, fears of divorce or separation. We focus on practical solutions to help you survive some of the most challenging and painful experiences that a man can go through. This podcast is for men who are done waiting for their life and relationships to improve and are ready to make some bold decisions so that you become more calm and confident and start moving toward what you really want.