Changing Your Wife to Get What You Want - Jayson Gaddis - 558
The Jayson Gaddis Podcast
Jayson Gaddis
4.7 • 999 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Why does trying to change your partner backfire? Jayson breaks down what happens when you try to get your wife to change when she does not want to, and how unmet expectations turn into resentment. He explains the arrogance behind trying to shape your partner, why behavior change requests often miss the point, and what it actually means to love someone as they are. If you keep pushing for change and not getting it, this episode is for you.
Timestamps:
- 2:53 - Trying to change a partner who doesn’t want to change
- 5:44 - Resentment from unmet expectations
- 8:49 - the arrogance of trying to change your partner
- 10:09 - Stop making behaviour change requests
- 11:44 - Trying to change someone is not loving them
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome back to another episode of the Jason Gattis podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | Greetings. |
| 0:12.4 | I was just up in Montana recently, hanging out with a bunch of guys on an adventure trip. |
| 0:18.4 | It was really cool. |
| 0:20.2 | Learned a lot. |
| 0:23.6 | Hopefully offered a lot. I spoke to this group of guys, mostly dads, mostly entrepreneurs about conflict repair. That's my jam. And I want to zero in on |
| 0:34.8 | something today that is really about changing your wife. |
| 0:41.7 | All right. |
| 0:42.7 | Just a reminder that this podcast, you could say is, hey, it's for anyone that wants relationship help and spiritual development and personal growth stuff. |
| 0:52.7 | You could say that. |
| 0:54.4 | And more and more, I'm talking to married entrepreneurial dads. |
| 1:01.3 | If that's not you, it's okay. |
| 1:03.0 | You can still get tons of value here. |
| 1:04.8 | You might be a woman who's married to someone, a man. |
| 1:09.5 | You might not be, you might be a man, but not be married or have kids. |
| 1:16.0 | I still think this is going to be valuable for you. |
| 1:20.5 | So you'll hear me talk a lot in my language directing the conversation towards dudes. |
| 1:28.3 | Because that's what I am. |
| 1:30.3 | A married entrepreneurial dad. |
| 1:33.3 | All right. Changing your partner. |
| 1:36.3 | I've spoken about this many times, but I just wanted to paint a little vignette here first. |
| 1:43.3 | That, you know, I see this a lot. |
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