Most men hear “emotional distance” and think it is simply a gap they can fix by showing her more effort.

But emotional distance isn’t a gap, it’s a signal.

If she’s emotionally distant right now, it’s not because you haven’t done enough……but because you’ve been trying to close a distance that was never meant to be closed by effort.

And the moment you treat it like a problem to solve, you unknowingly turn yourself into the very thing her nervous system is running away from.

So in this video, I’m going to show you why emotional distance is not something you overcome by leaning in to her more, and how the men who do reverse her distance are doing something that looks passive on the surface, but is actually deeply grounded and powerful underneath.

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Emotional Distance Feels Scary To Men

Emotional distance hits men differently than it hits women.

Men hear the phrase “emotionally distant” and immediately you feel a sense of urgency rise in your chest, with the feeling of tightening and panic. 

Because distance feels like loss and like the beginning of the end. And when that fear hits, the instinct is almost automatically pushing you to do something. Say more to her, reach out and try harder to fix the space between you and her.

For most men, connection equals getting closer and getting more interaction. When things feel good you’re going to have that warmth, that free flowing conversation, that sexual connection and shared energy. 

When that all starts to fade, though, your body starts to interpret it as rejection from her, even if no one has said those words out loud.

And you, as a man, are wired to restore broken systems. Inherently: if communication is dropping at work (wherever you work), you may schedule a meeting to try and get things back on track, or if a process breaks you try to fix it, make it better. 

So when your wife or partner becomes emotionally distant, your brain doesn’t say, “Give this some time.”, it starts frantically telling you to repair and close the space.

But emotional distance is not a logistical problem or a misunderstanding; emotion distance is usually a regulation issue, not just a communication issue.

So when you respond to it by pulling her, pursuing, or trying to re-establish closeness before emotional safety has returned, you create an environment that makes it more likely for her to go further and further away from you. 

What Emotional Distance Actually Is and Isn’t

What I don’t want you to start assuming is that she is doing this on purpose as a decision to create this emotional distance.  

Like, I don’t want you to think she is actually trying to punish you and choosing not to connect, or CHOOSING to shut down and not open up because she stopped caring about you. 

Firstly, it is a very HIGH probability that it just simply isn’t true (at least at the beginning) because emotional distance is rarely conscious in nature. 

Secondly, if you start assuming things like that, you’re just going to start acting out of resentment if you believe she is intentionally trying to hurt you, and I can promise without a shadow of a doubt that any action you take with this in mind is going to harm your chances of turning things around. 

The reason I said emotional distance is rarely conscious in nature is because what it is is the body creating space when emotional contact starts to feel unpredictable.

More often, emotional distance means she’s overwhelmed or guarded, and her body puts itself in a protective state.

Think about how distance works in the body.

I remember when I was like 7 or 8 years old, I was in the kitchen with my mom as she was making something to eat.

She had the pan on the stovetop to heat it up, and she asked me if I could check to see if the pan was hot.

I didn’t know what the heck I was doing, so, being stupid at 7 or 8 years old, instead of doing what you are supposed to (putting your hand over the top of it to feel the heat OFF the pan), I put my finger out and touched the side of the pan.

Yeah, it was incredibly hot and I pulled my hand back INSTANTLY. Now, I didn’t hate the stove or the pan because it was hot, but my nervous system learned that something felt unsafe.  

Emotional distance works the same way.

She didn’t wake up one day and DECIDE to withdraw from you. She learned to withdraw over time, because she kept putting her finger on the side of the hot pan to check the temperature of the environment you create.

And over and over again, because you did not create emotional safety, her body associated closeness with tension, and disappointment, and with feeling unseen or misunderstood.

So similar to the lesson my nervous system learned that day I touched the actual hot pan, her body learned that distance became the regulation strategy to protect herself emotionally.

Does this resonate with you, does it make sense?

And that part I know you are struggling with right now is doing things to try and pull her back before her system feels settled; but you don’t feel like safety to her when you do that. 

I’ve seen this exact dynamic play out again and again; the more a man tries to pull her back emotionally, the less safe she feels staying

It just feels like her burning her finger on the side of the pan again. 

Imagine someone takes a step back from you. 

I don’t know if you’ve ever seen the Seinfeld episode with the Close Talker, but Elaine is dating this guy who just gets right up into your personal space when talking to you, and he meets Kramer and keeps getting closer to Kramer’s face while introducing himself, and Kramer subtly keeps backing away until he bumps into the fridge and falls down. 

That is the same thing that happens when you’re trying to get closer to your wife or partner and trying to pull her back in.

Even if your words are calm, the pressure that is being communicated by trying to pull her back does the very opposite and pushes her away until she falls down for good.

INVISIBLE MESSAGE BEHIND PULLING

When you’re doing things to try and pull her back closer, the most common thing for you to do is focus on what you’re saying to her. 

You tell her things like “you care” and “you love her and don’t want to lose her”, or you do nice things for her and buy her gifts. 

However, emotional communication happens beneath words, and you trying to pull her back emotionally communicates things you are probably not intending to. 

She is going to feel that you’re telling her that you are anxious without her close, her distance scares you, you need reassurance to feel anything close to okay, and the only way you can stabilize yourself is through her. 

Those are all things you DO NOT want her feeling about you, because the more you try to secure closeness externally, the less secure you appear internally.

SHE FEELS CALMER WHEN YOU STOP TRYING

So when you stop trying to pull her back, she often feels relief because the environment that now exists emotionally is much quieter. 

There is no more uncomfortable tension or expectation, and this is important because calm is a prerequisite for attraction to return. 

When you start being calm yourself, allowing her to feel the same, and you stop trying to remove the distance… you have to then start becoming someone who can hold it without collapsing.

Emotional steadiness and being grounded are such key aspects of creating the conditions where you can turn things around in your relationship.

MEN CONFUSE CALM WITH INDIFFERENCE

One reason this is hard is because calm can feel like indifference when you’re scared.

When you’re anxious about losing her and the life you have built, anything short of urgency feels like giving up.

When you are able to be calm with your presence, you are not giving up. 

This is leadership that communicates to her that you can handle uncertainty without having to reach out and latch onto her.

Emotional leadership does not mean closeness at all times. It means you are steady regardless of distance.

It means:

• You don’t panic when she pulls back
  
  
• You don’t over-explain to regain footing
  
  
• You don’t perform change to earn proximity to her
  
  

You have to learn how to hold your center, and that center allows for emotional safety to start to form. 

THIS FEELS COUNTERINTUITIVE

Everything in you wants to move toward doing anything you can to pull her back close to you, which is why this feels so counterintuitive. 

It felt so backwards to me when I learned what really works, because for so long I would just do what society conditioned me to do when my relationships were in trouble, do anything I could and grasp onto anything to avoid losing her.

That’s human, and that feeling of uncertainty you have about the outcome causes your instincts to scream for control 

But as counterintuitive as this feels, your best chance at getting her attraction and connection back is to stop focusing on that specific outcome and start focusing on understanding how women operate emotionally, and the skills you need to learn to become a better leader in your relationship. .

You, much like I was, have been taught by society that you have to chase her and do all these lavish things for your wife or partner if she is disconnected from you emotionally, but it is all a lie.

When you stop pressuring her as she is working through her emotions, and you focus on becoming a better man for yourself and the relationship, that helps let her feel relief.

That is when she can properly process what she is feeling, and if you start showing up differently on a consistent basis in the relationship, she will start to feel this.

So you have to look yourself in the mirror and ask if you are willing to change, because what you have been doing probably hasn’t been working. 

That was my tipping point when my ex-fiance left me, I took a look in the mirror and had to realize I was clearly doing something wrong because for a decade I would get the same result, it was a painful pattern.

So ask yourself if you want to learn how to be the man who can be grounded when connection is uncertain, because the answer to that question determines whether distance with her becomes temporary… or defining.

YOUR NEXT STEPS

If this hits home for you, and you realize how often you’ve been trying to pull connection back with her and it just simply isn’t working; I want you to go and watch my free Relationship Rebuild masterclass.

You will learn the exact step-by-step blueprint that completely changed my life, and how to become the man that naturally brings her connection and attraction back to you the fastest way possible.

If you are ready to take that step, the masterclass is free to watch and the link is in the description below. 

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