Calm Parenting Podcast - 2 Reasons Your Wife Doesn't Have Sex With (Or Respect) You

Episode Date: November 21, 2020

2 Reasons Your Wife Doesn't Have Sex With (Or Respect) You Men, this isn't really about sex. It's about respect--which is what you value most from your kids and wife. Your wife wants you to listen to this, but she may fear your reaction if she sends it to you. Thank her instead. Then listen with humility and I will show you two very easy ways to change this. The payoff? A wife who wants to have "respect" with you :) Are you ready to FINALLY make changes? This is the best time. Our Black Friday Sale enables you to get our programs at highly affordable prices. We have special deals on the Calm Parenting Package, the Get Everything Package, and the No B.S. Program. Our programs have never been this inexpensive.  Download to multiple devices, share with relatives so they understand you instead of judging you. Change the way you understand, discipline, and motivate your strong-willed child.  Questions? Need help deciding on the best tools for your family? Email [e-mail] and Casey will help you personally!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And I know this about men because I am one. We care about a few things, care about our wallets. We like money. We like sex. And you know what we really want beyond that? We want respect. We want our kids to respect us. We want our wife to respect us. And we want other people to respect us. And we're concerned. We want a legacy of people who respect us. And yet we continually do things that get us less money, less sex, less respect. And so I want to help you with that. So we're at a live event. Oh, by the way, welcome to the Calm Parenting Podcast. This is Kirk Martin. I'm founder of Celebrate Calm. If you need help, email our son Casey, C-A-S-E-Y at celebrate.com or because this is for men, you can email me personally, Kirk, K-I-R-K at celebratecalm.com and we'll help you with any of this. We want to change this. So I'm in a live event. We're talking and I was talking

about how, you know how when you have a strong willed child, he often gets very emotional. We'll oftentimes yell at your wife, do things and he gets upset. And then we as men sometimes come in, you need to cut it out, you talk like that, you know, one more word, young man, go to your room. And then we bark a consequence that we can't keep, no food, no video games for the rest of the month for you, right? We do all that stuff and we end up escalating things. Well, in the course of doing that, we tend to dismiss our kids' emotions. Oh, you know what? There do all that stuff and we end up escalating things. Well, in the course of doing that, we tend to dismiss our kids' emotions. Oh, you know what? There's no need to be upset. You're just overreacting. And so I made this statement. I said, yeah, men, that's what you do to your wife

when you say, oh honey, there's no need to be upset. There's no need to be frustrated. You're just overreacting. We dismiss their emotions. And then I said, and that's why your wife won't have sex with you anymore. And I look out at the audience and dozens of women are nodding their heads. And I thought, well, that resonated. Let me get home and do a podcast on that. I want to change your home. And men, I can give you some tools. Now, some things are hard, right? Relationships are hard for men, but I can make it really easy for you. But I will tell you this stuff is harder than anything I ever did when I worked in the corporate world, owning my own business. I can work 24-7 because I love stuff that's predictable. But when I have to, when I walk into my home,

my wife or kids have all kinds of emotions and they're upset and there's Legos on the floor, I can't handle that. And it just causes me to do two things. We as men do two things that really mess things up. Number one, we dismiss our wives. We dismiss their emotions, right? Your wife says something. We respond with that. Oh, honey, there's no need to be upset. There's no, you're just overreacting. And when I did that to my wife, I didn't realize what I was doing until she told me one day, she said, you know, you make me feel like I'm this tall, like I'm a little child. And then you want to go up to the bedroom. Not happening, pal. Not happening. Right. And what we do. So here's what

I want to give you the tool. It's not look, this stuff is not that hard. Just do this. Men acknowledge that her emotions are legitimate. Here's a great phrase to use anytime. Honey, if I were you, I'd be frustrated too. Oh man, if that happened to me, man, I'd really be upset too. Zip, nothing else. Don't try to fix it. Don't prove your point.

Don't try to use your superior logic to show her the error of her thinking. Stop doing that stuff, right? We do it all the time. What she wants is to know that you're on her side, that you're not trying to fix her moods, that you're not trying to change her. There's nothing to fix. She's allowed to be in a bad mood. She's allowed to be frustrated. She's allowed to be upset. The real issue is why can't you deal with other people's emotions? Why can't you deal with things not being done the way you want them done? That's more about your control issues, my control issues. Look, I'm not getting on you about this. I am you. I'm made the same way.

I just learned that if you change a few things and stop trying to fix and control other people's emotions and you just simply acknowledge and say, of course you're frustrated, honey. And that's it. It's liberating. I don't have to fix everything, which is good news because you can't fix it. So that's number one. Number two, and by the way, I know there are more women, 10 times the women listening to this than men, because women are going to listen to this and they're going to be like, oh yeah, my husband does that. Oh, he's about to do this next thing he's talking about too. I can guarantee you that. And they want to send it to you. They want you to listen to this podcast. And here's the really sad and scary thing. Many of the women listening to this don't know how to do it. They're afraid. And what does that say about our marriages? What does that say about me as a man,

about us as men, that our wife, our bride, the woman that we fell in love with, that we had kids with, is afraid to talk to us about something that's hurting them. That is not a good thing. And if that's the case in your marriage, you, I don't know the right, I want to say, you better change that. That doesn't end well. And I'll just, let me alleviate this. Well, if my wife divorced me, it'll be better. Then I'll have to put up with all of her stuff and the kids. Yeah. Look, I can tell you, I've worked with a million families.

It doesn't work that way. There is emotional trauma that happens to your kids. Even in the, quote, best divorce, it is ugly, it is messy, and it is expensive, men, and it will cost you more than money. It will cost you your respect and it will hurt your family for generations. So don't dismiss this either. Your wife wants you to listen to this. Why is she afraid to send this to you? Because she thinks you're going to be upset at her. Don't. Listen to it with some humility. Second thing that we do as husbands that hurt us, we try to manage, right?

We try to control everybody's emotions when we can't even control our own. And here's what happens to your wife. She's busy all day trying to just do things with the kids and manage their emotions. And then you walk into the kitchen or the living room and she has to manage your emotions for you because you can't control your own. I am the product of a career military father who didn't know how to control himself. He used fear, intimidation, my way or the highway approach. And so that's what I learned. And my wife had to manage my emotions for me because I was incapable of doing it. I couldn't do it myself. And so watch what

happens. Your wife is exhausted from just dealing with the kids. And then the man she married walks in the room and she's wondering, uh-oh, if he gets upset, then everybody's going to get upset. So she's trying to control the kids so they don't make you upset. Here's what they're saying. Kids, pick up the Legos, pick up the Legos. Honey, calm down, calm down, because we don't want dad to be upset. Can you imagine how emotionally and physically exhausting that is to walk on eggshells around your husband and sometimes around your own kids? So the two things that we need to work on as husbands, okay, do not dismiss her emotions and learn to control your own emotions. When you walk into that living room or kitchen and you can de-escalate situations and you can take a situation that usually went out of control,

yelling at kids, sending them to their bedrooms, you and your wife fighting because she's too soft on the kids and she doesn't discipline them enough and you wouldn't have to yell if you didn't give in and coddle that child. You got to work on that stuff, right? If you can de-escalate things, your wife will want you in every way possible. If you begin to do those two simple things, control yourself, de-escalate the situations and just acknowledge your wife's emotions. It will change things in your home. That is your challenge.

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Men, you and I can do this. If I did it, you can do it. Talk to you soon. Bye-bye.