246: How to Deal with a Stonewalling Husband: 3 Tips

The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle

Laura Doyle

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🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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If you've ever felt the frustration and loneliness of trying to communicate with a partner who just shuts down, you're not alone. If your man won’t say a word to you or only talks about logistics or the kids, it’s devastating and scary. I remember feeling panicked when that used to happen at my house because I felt so abandoned. The only way to stop the terror, I thought, was to insist that he talk to me, which seemed to make him dig in even more. It was awful and I felt pathetic. Other people said just ignore him until he calms down, but I’m not a patient person and that never worked for me. So on today’s episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, we’re talking about how to deal with a stonewalling husband. These three tips will help you navigate those stressful moments with more dignity and to create a home where there’s so much emotional safety that stonewalling becomes a distant memory.

Plus, my guest Jessee is not a student but rather the husband of a podcast guest and coach. He generously agreed to be part of our Man Panel series, and today I’m going to get his perspective on the changes in his family as a result of his wife using the 6 Intimacy Skills™ and the Connection Framework. Get ready to hear the male perspective on what makes a man attracted to his wife and want to be her hero.

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0:00.0	Today on the Empowered Wife podcast.
0:04.0	When we were having our first child, Elijah,
0:07.0	she was probably seven months pregnant at this time.
0:10.0	She made some comment about what it's going to be like with something to do is like the mess of, you know, breast milk or something like that and I was like, oh gross.
0:19.0	Like I mean, and yeah, I ended up sleeping in another room that night because of that.
0:24.0	Welcome to the Empowered Wife podcast where it's all about fixing your relationship without your
0:33.2	man's conscious effort so you feel desired and taken care of and special even if
0:39.4	your relationship feels hopeless. I'm Lord Doyle and today we're talking about how to deal with a
0:44.1	stonewalling husband. I'm going to give you three of my best tips. My guest
0:48.5	Jesse is not a student of the intimacy skills, but rather the husband of a podcast guest and a coach.
0:56.4	He generously agreed to be part of our man panel series, which starts today, and I'm going to get his perspective on the changes in his
1:04.7	family as a result of his wife practicing the six intimacy skills and the
1:10.1	Connection framework so get ready to hear the male perspective on what makes
1:14.8	men attracted to their wives and want to be her hero. But before we get to that, let's talk
1:21.2	about how to deal with a stone walling husband.
1:23.8	I want to give you these three powerful tips that you can use.
1:28.8	Because if you've ever felt the frustration and the loneliness of trying to communicate with your partner when he just won't,
1:35.8	he is shut down, you are not alone. I've been there and so have a lot of the women I've worked with.
1:58.9	Now if your man won't say a word to you or if he'll only talk about logistics or maybe the kids, it's devastating, it's scary. It feels like the worst rejection and you don't know when it's going to end or if it's
2:08.6	For shadowing for something even worse that's coming. It feels really extreme. And I remember feeling so panicked
2:12.8	when that used to happen at my house because I felt so abandoned. Like the only way for me to stop this terror
2:16.9	that's welding inside of me, I thought,
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