Tiptoeing around your wife makes her feel like she has to fend for herself. This damages her sense of security in the relationship. A grounded, confident husband makes her feel safe by being direct. Here’s a story to help you understand what tiptoeting around your wife looks like so you can avoid it.
The Negative Effects Of Being Indirect
Gerald felt torn.
He sat in the hot tub with his wife, Susan.
She looked intently at him for an answer.
He didn’t know what to say.
Part of him knew if he spoke plainly, all hell would break loose from her.
The other part of him knew his tactics of tiptoeing around questions had been getting under her skin lately.
There was a part of Susan Gerald dreaded.
He had named this part of her “the dragon”.
Although he had never admitted this term to Susan, she instinctively knew he saw part of her this way.
Susan’s “dragon” was a cold, dismissive, angry, and moody personality that usually surfaced around her period.
For years, Gerald managed to keep Susan’s “dragon” asleep by not disturbing the peace when she was on edge.
He was a black-belt master at adjusting his responses based on how he felt she would react.
Adjusting your responses is typical when you’re tiptoeing around your wife.
You’re putting feelers out to see how she takes it before saying your truth.
Susan wasn’t the only one Gerald used this tactic with.
Customers, family members, in-laws… Gerald could smooth over anything with anyone.
Gerald’s Indirect Answers Made His Wife Lose Respect
Over the last few months, Gerald’s indirect behaviors made Susan feel very unsupported in the marriage.
She struggled to respect him because she never knew where he stood.
Her complaints were:
- I don’t feel like you have my back
- You always try to fix me
- I can’t trust you
- I don’t feel heard
- You make everything about you
As Gerald and Susan sat in the hot tub, Gerald opened his mouth to speak.
Susan immediately sensed he was going to walk on eggshells.
She stopped him mid-sentence.
“See! You always do this!!” Susan said.
Gerald tried to backpedal with a logical excuse.
It only dug him into a deeper hole.
Sound familiar?
It’s easy to try to be blameless while tiptoeing around your wife.
Susan wasn’t having it.
“Just tell me, did you or did you not tell your mom exactly why we won’t be going to their place for Thanksgiving?” She asked.
Gerald knew he hadn’t been direct with his mom… He didn’t want to piss her off either. Gerald had given his mom a list of excuses why they wouldn’t be there for the holiday…
He tried to explain himself, then Susan cut him off again:
“I’m done. I’m done with you never having any backbone… I don’t even feel like I can stay in this relationship.”
Garald’s marriage was on a razor’s edge from divorce.
What Susan desperately needed was to feel safe, protected, and contained in the marriage.
Without masculine “containment“, women feel they don’t have a champion in their corner, and you feel like you’re tiptoing around your wife.
How To Stop Tiptoeing Around Your Wife
Throw out everything you thought you knew about how marriage works.
You need to get back to the basics of what it means to be masculine, so the natural attraction with feminine can happen.
Tiptoeing around your wife?
It feels feminine to her.
That’s why it lowers attraction.
I’m not saying buy a truck or play more sports.
That’s not what makes you masculine.
Being masculine is about being sure, grounded, firm, present, and clear.
When we work on your inner confidence, you become that man naturally.
You need confidence to stop tiptoeing around your wife.
Fear of conflict, fear of rejection, fear of abandonment… there’s always a fear driving people-pleasing.
There’s always a fear behind being overly agreeable.
That fear puts your wife into a state of fight or flight.
I teach you how to THINK differently about your fears.
You become solid in yourself and less bothered by how your wife responds to you.
You’ll be able to open your heart to her when you used to shut down.
What you used to avoid you’ll face head-on.
Your wife will be less reactive with your fear out of the room.







