GoodGuys2GreatMen Video Podcast

The Cure for a Stagnant Sexless Marriage

Dan Dore & Steve Horsmon • 3m 42s • 6 November 2021

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The Cure for a Stagnant Sexless Marriage
Video overview: If you’re an unhappy husband just existing in a sexless marriage, the problem is not only the lack of sex or affection. This video is about the mindset that keeps men stuck, resentful, and quietly settling — and how to start rebuilding your confidence, self-respect, and mojo from the inside out.

Being an unhappy husband in a sexless marriage is a miserable place to live.

You may still look fine from the outside. You still go to work. You still pay the bills. You still do what needs doing. You still show up as the responsible guy everyone can count on.

But inside, something feels dead.

You’re lonely. You’re frustrated. You’re tired of hoping tonight might be different. You’re tired of the coldness, the excuses, the lack of affection, the awkward distance, and the feeling that your wife no longer sees you as a man she wants.

And when that goes on long enough, a man starts doing things he does not respect.

He starts pleasing.

He starts performing.

He starts trying to keep the peace.

He starts doing little things, and big things, with a hidden hope underneath them.

Maybe if I do more, she’ll soften.

Maybe if I don’t rock the boat, she’ll relax.

Maybe if I’m patient enough, kind enough, helpful enough, quiet enough, she’ll finally notice me again.

I know that mindset because I lived it for too many years.

I did things to make people like me. I did things to avoid conflict. I did things to get along. I did things to earn attention, affection, approval, and little crumbs of sex.

And I bought into that “happy wife, happy life” nonsense like a lot of men do.

Brother, that is the wrong mindset.

Not because your wife’s happiness doesn’t matter. Of course it matters. You want to love her well. You want to care about her experience. You want to build a marriage where both of you feel safe, seen, valued, and wanted.

But if your whole strategy is to make her happy so you can finally feel okay, you’re going to lose yourself.

And when you lose yourself, you don’t become more attractive.

You become resentful.

You become weak in your own eyes.

You become the man who keeps giving while secretly keeping score. You become the man who says yes when he means no. You become the man who settles for a cold, distant, low-intimacy relationship because he’s afraid of what might happen if he tells the truth.

That will destroy your self-confidence.

And once your self-confidence starts going, your self-respect usually follows.

Those two things are not small. Confidence and self-respect are major parts of your happiness, your masculine strength, and your mojo. Without them, you start making choices from fear instead of clarity.

You stay in jobs you know are draining you.

You keep people around who take more than they give.

You tolerate a marriage that does not feel close, loving, passionate, or intimate anymore.

You call it patience.

You call it loyalty.

You call it being a good man.

But sometimes it’s just settling.

This video is about waking up to that truth without beating yourself up.

Because the answer is not to become selfish, angry, cold, or careless. That’s not the answer. You don’t fix a sexless marriage by becoming a jerk or by punishing your wife for not wanting you.

The answer begins with mindset.

Mindset comes first because the most important thing is not simply what you do. It’s who you are being when you do it.

You can do the dishes from love or from resentment.

You can plan a date from confidence or from desperation.

You can talk about sex from honesty or from neediness.

You can apologize from maturity or from fear.

Same action. Completely different man.

That is why mindset matters so much.

If you are being a man who is trying to earn his wife’s affection, every good thing you do will carry pressure. If you are being a man who respects himself, tells the truth, and creates from his own clarity, the same actions feel completely different.

Your wife can feel the difference.

More importantly, you can feel the difference.

A mojo makeover is not about putting on a fake confident act. It’s not about pretending you’re fine. It’s not about learning tricks to get sex back by Friday.

It means getting honest about who you are, what you want, what you stand for, and what kind of life you are no longer willing to sleepwalk through.

It means reclaiming the part of you that can choose again.

It means building a clear path toward becoming a man you are proud of, whether your wife immediately responds the way you want or not.

That is where happiness starts to come back.

Not because everything in the marriage is suddenly fixed.

Because you stop abandoning yourself inside it.

If you’re fed up with being an unhappy husband, I want you to hear this clearly. You are not powerless. You may not control your wife’s desire, her affection, or her willingness to change today. But you do control the mindset you bring into your life, your marriage, and your next move.

You can keep settling.

Or you can decide that your confidence, self-respect, and mojo are worth rebuilding.

That decision changes a man.

And when a man changes from the inside, his whole life has something new to respond to.

Start your mojo makeover

If you’re tired of existing in a sexless marriage and feeling worse about yourself every day, we can help you get clear about what needs to change. You don’t have to keep pleasing, settling, or waiting for crumbs — you can start becoming a man you respect again.

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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.