Romantic Relationships Articles

Is your wife’s painful past behind your lack of intimacy?

Is your wife’s painful past behind your lack of intimacy?

Many of these men are in sexless or sexless or sex-starved relationships. They feel a deep lack of far more than sex but of deep, connected emotionally-satisfying intimacy. In fact, that’s usually their chief frustration and complaint.

How One Sentence Over Cheeseburgers Ended Limbo In My Marriage

How One Sentence Over Cheeseburgers Ended Limbo In My Marriage

For almost twenty years, I lived as a serf, disappointed that my needs never seemed met and exhausted from the constant asking and angling for more respect, appreciation, validation, love, sex, passion, connection, and free time to myself. “This isn’t fair! This isn’t what partnership was supposed to be about!”

The Missing Ingredient in Most Marriage Rescue Recipes

The Missing Ingredient in Most Marriage Rescue Recipes

Many men embrace conditional regard thinking it’s how they can create and enforce good personal boundaries. In fact, the opposite is true. Men with conditional regard for others require things from others that they can’t control.

Yeah, but… at what point does a man say “enough is enough”?!

Yeah, but… at what point does a man say “enough is enough”?!

Many think they’re playing The Hero simply because they’re no longer idle in their story. While taking action is more heroic than living idly in inaction, if a man’s story has a Villain, he’s still The Victim. Guys get pissed when I say that. That, too, is often more victimization.

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