GoodGuys2GreatMen Video Podcast

What Kind of Man Can Save His Marriage?

Dan Dore & Steve Horsmon • 5m 34s • 23 June 2018

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What Kind of Man Can Save His Marriage?
Video overview: If you’re trying to save your marriage, win your wife back, or get her to want you again, your first move probably isn’t another tactic. This video brings you back to the real starting point — becoming calm, confident, clear, and happy before you try to create anything with her.

A lot of men want to save their marriage.

They want to attract their wife back. They want her to love them again. They want the sex back. They want the warmth back. They want that feeling that she’s happy to see them, proud to be with them, and willing to open her heart and body again.

I understand that completely.

When the woman you love feels distant, cold, uninterested, or unsure, it can shake you right down to your bones. You start searching for answers. You want to know what to say, what to do, how much space to give, how much effort to show, whether to pursue, whether to back off, whether to apologise, whether to be stronger, softer, more romantic, less needy, more patient, or more direct.

Your mind starts turning your marriage into a strategy problem.

But this video is about something much more important than strategy.

It’s about who you need to be.

Because if you try to save your marriage from fear, panic, neediness, resentment, or desperation, she will feel that. You may use the right words. You may make better promises. You may read the right books, watch the right videos, and try very hard to be a better husband.

But underneath all that effort, she may still feel a man who is not okay.

And when a man is not okay inside himself, he often puts pressure on the woman to make him okay.

That’s where things get worse.

He wants her affection so he can feel confident. He wants sex so he can feel wanted. He wants reassurance so he can calm down. He wants her to soften so he can believe the marriage has a chance.

Again, I get it.

But that puts her in a terrible position.

She becomes the source of his emotional stability. She becomes the judge of his worth. She becomes the person who has to make him feel like a man again.

And brother, your woman cannot take you there.

She doesn’t want that job.

She wants to feel you already becoming that man.

This is why first things have to come first.

Before you can create more love, connection, passion, and trust, you have to become calmer. You have to become clearer. You have to become more confident in who you are. You have to build a life, a mindset, and an inner posture that does not collapse every time she is unhappy, distant, or unsure.

That doesn’t mean you stop caring.

It means you stop making her reaction the boss of your nervous system.

A calm man listens differently. He speaks differently. He doesn’t rush to fix every uncomfortable feeling. He doesn’t turn every hard conversation into a desperate attempt to get certainty.

A confident man does not need to be approved of every minute before he can love well. He can want his wife deeply without begging her to validate his masculinity. He can feel rejection without becoming small, cruel, or needy.

A clear man knows what he wants. He knows what he stands for. He knows the kind of husband, father, lover, and man he wants to be even when the outcome is uncertain.

And a happy man is not happy because everything is perfect.

He is happy because he has stopped giving away the responsibility for his own life.

That is powerful.

Most men want to skip this part. They want the technique. They want the sentence. They want the secret move that will make her soften, forgive, desire, or choose them again.

But if the man underneath the technique is anxious, reactive, and approval-hungry, the technique won’t matter much.

She’ll feel the need.

She’ll feel the pressure.

She’ll feel that you’re trying to get something from her before you have built it inside yourself.

This is not about becoming fake. It’s not about pretending you’re calm when you’re terrified. It’s not about acting like you don’t care so she’ll chase you.

That’s just another tactic.

This is about doing the real work of becoming a man who can stand in himself.

A man who can get support from other men instead of making his wife carry all his fear.

A man who can take responsibility for his mood, his choices, his body, his habits, his words, and his reactions.

A man who can say, “I want this marriage, but I will not abandon myself trying to force it.”

That kind of man has influence.

Not control.

Influence.

He creates a different emotional environment. He becomes easier to trust. He becomes less pressurising. He becomes more attractive because he is no longer trying so hard to be attractive.

He has his feet under him again.

That is where creating what you want begins.

Not with chasing.

Not with pleading.

Not with another argument about why she should love you.

It begins with becoming calm, confident, clear, and happy enough inside yourself that you can love her without making her responsible for saving you.

Will that guarantee she comes back, wants sex forever, and gives you everything you’ve been hoping for?

No.

But trying to win her from fear won’t give you that either.

The best chance your marriage has starts with the man you become before you know how it ends.

That’s first things first.

Become steady before you try to win her back

If you’re trying to save your marriage from fear, panic, or desperation, you don’t have to keep carrying that alone. We can help you become calmer, clearer, and more confident so you can lead yourself first and show up as a man you respect.

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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.