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How to Increase Your Sex Appeal by Stopping This (and starting this)

Dan Dore & Steve Horsmon • 5m 14s • 29 June 2019

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How to Increase Your Sex Appeal by Stopping This (and starting this)
Video overview: If you want your woman to feel more drawn to you, more open to you, and more interested in intimacy, the answer is not another trick or technique. This video points to the deeper secret of sex appeal — becoming a man who is grounded, self-led, confident, and alive in his own skin.

A lot of men want to know how to become more attractive to their wife.

They want more sex. More affection. More flirting. More warmth. More of that feeling that she actually wants to be close to them instead of just tolerating them, managing them, or living beside them like a roommate.

And when a man feels that slipping away, it hurts.

It can make him panic. It can make him try too hard. It can make him become careful, needy, resentful, or strangely passive. He starts looking for the secret thing to say, the perfect move to make, the right date night, the right apology, the right way to get her attention again.

But real sex appeal does not come from chasing her attention.

It comes from becoming a man who has his own.

That’s the secret most men miss.

Your wife can feel whether you are living from your own centre or whether you are trying to get your centre from her. She can feel whether your desire is clean, confident, and playful, or whether it has become heavy with need, pressure, disappointment, and fear.

You may not say it out loud, but she feels it.

She feels it when every hug carries a hidden request. She feels it when every compliment is really a test to see if she’ll soften. She feels it when you’re trying to be nice, helpful, or patient because you hope it will earn you intimacy later.

That is not sexy.

And brother, I say that with compassion because a lot of good men get stuck here. They are not bad men. They are not selfish monsters. They are lonely, frustrated, confused men who miss their wife and don’t know how to create attraction anymore.

So they start chasing the outcome.

They want the sex back. They want the spark back. They want the old version of her back. They want some sign that they still matter.

But the more they chase, the less attractive they feel. And the less attractive they feel, the more desperate their energy becomes.

That’s the loop.

This video is about breaking that loop.

If you want to increase your sex appeal, you have to stop making your wife the judge of whether you are desirable. You have to stop waiting for her affection to tell you whether you are okay. You have to stop treating intimacy like proof that you still have value.

A woman can enjoy a man who wants her.

But she usually does not relax around a man who needs her to make him feel like a man.

That is a very different energy.

Real attraction begins when you come back into ownership of yourself. Your body. Your mind. Your purpose. Your friendships. Your standards. Your humour. Your desire. Your emotional state.

Not as a performance.

Not as some fake macho act.

As a man who remembers he has a life to live and a self to respect.

This is why other men matter so much. Most men try to fix this alone, and isolation makes everything worse. They sit in their own head, analysing their wife, replaying conversations, guessing what she means, wondering if they should pursue or back off, speak up or stay quiet.

That kind of thinking can drive you crazy.

You need men around you who will tell you the truth. Men who will not shame you for wanting intimacy, but who also won’t let you use your pain as an excuse to become needy, bitter, or small. Men who can help you see where you’ve lost yourself and how to come back.

Because your woman cannot take you there.

And she doesn’t want to.

She wants to feel you already living there.

She wants to feel a man who knows himself. A man who can handle disappointment. A man who can flirt without begging. A man who can desire her without needing to own her response. A man who can be warm, direct, playful, strong, and emotionally steady.

That kind of man has sex appeal.

Not because he is perfect. Not because he never feels fear. Not because he always knows exactly what to do.

Because he is not outsourcing his worth.

That is the deeper work.

You start taking better care of yourself. You start telling the truth more cleanly. You start making decisions. You start reconnecting with your body and your own energy. You start creating a life that makes you feel proud to be you again.

And when that happens, your whole presence changes.

You stop walking into the room asking, “Do you want me yet?”

You start walking into the room as a man who wants his life, wants his woman, and wants to keep growing no matter what she chooses.

That’s a much more powerful place to stand.

This could save a marriage, yes.

But even more than that, it could save a man from spending the rest of his life trying to be chosen by someone else before he chooses himself.

That’s where attraction starts again.

Not with a line.

Not with a trick.

With you becoming a man you respect, a man other men respect, and a man your woman can actually feel.

Become the man she can feel

If you’ve been trying to get her attention, affection, or desire back and it’s leaving you feeling smaller, we can help you get grounded again. You don’t need another trick — you need support becoming calmer, clearer, stronger, and more alive in yourself.

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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.