What Do You Do With The Want #799

A listener wrote in after last week's episode. He appreciated it but wanted the other side of the equation. His situation: he wants to do something with his wife that he considers well within the moral framework of their marriage. She says no. Complete sentence. So what's he supposed to do? Stop wanting it? White-knuckle his way through? Watch it fester into resentment? Those feel like the only two options when you're stuck in gridlock. They're not. Every marriage has gridlock issues — places where what one person wants is blocked by what the other person wants. Change the marriage, you just swap the topics. The gridlock doesn't go away. What changes is whether you learn to face it or just keep trying to get your spouse to move off their position. This week Corey and Pam sit with the husband's side of that equation. What the wanting is actually about. What her no actually means — and what he's been attaching to it that isn't really about her. Why the legal brief approach never works. And what it looks like when movement shows up in a form you didn't expect. The wanting can stay. What has to change is what you do with it. The post What Do You Do With The Want #799 first appeared on Sexy Marriage Radio.