You provide financially for your family.

But do you provide emotionally?

Are you an emotionally safe place for your wife?

Does she feel like you are on her team?

Can she feel your devotion to her?

Are you a model of emotional strength and safety to your kids?

Can you soothe yourself through difficult emotions, and help your children do the same?

If you’re like most men, the answer to this is no.

And that’s why your marriage and family life is struggling more than it needs to be.

And, why you’re struggling more than you need to.

Learn to build the skill of soothing yourself, so you can be a safe, strong support for your family…

In today’s episode.

Watch on YouTube here.

Dr. Mike

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Maybe your marriage isn’t where you want it. 

Your wife isn’t connecting with you physically or emotionally…

Or maybe you’re facing separation or divorce.

Maybe your kids are driving you crazy with their disrespect, ignoring or other issues.

Or, maybe there are other things that are just crap right now.

Well, it could very well be that this is just the manure time.

The stinky, gross time that is required for growth.

It’s not fun. It’s terrible.

But, if you can stay consistent through it…

A beautiful garden is on the other side.

Watch on YouTube here. 

Dr. Mike

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Sometimes the best you can do is just show up.

And that's part of being a grounded leader.

That's what today is about. 

Showing up and putting the podcast up because I committed to myself and to my listeners to do it.

So, if you're feeling like the most you can do is just show up...

Know that at the end of the day, showing up matters.

Dr. Mike

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Do you have a hard time staying consistent in your relationship goals?

Do you keep losing your temper?

Do you keep shutting down when your wife has a complaint against you?

Do you try to fix those things, and make some progress for a while…

Only to slip back into the same old patterns?

Well, there’s a reason for that.

And a solution.

Learn how to make your changes really stick…

To create a better connection with God, yourself, your wife and your kids…

In today’s episode.

Watch on YouTube here.

Dr. Mike

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What is God like?

How does He respond when you do what’s “right?”

How does He respond when you do what’s “wrong?”

How does God feel about achievement?

The answers to these questions shape a large amount of your relationship with God.

They will also shape how you feel towards God, how you feel like God feels towards you, and therefore how much time you will WANT to spend with God.

If you’re like me, you’ve spent a lot of time feeling like God is much more “with you” when you’re doing what’s right vs when you’re doing what’s wrong.

To me, that creates an unsafe relationship with God. One that’s based on performance. And therefore, you won’t want to spend that much time with Him.

Now, I believe God is with me no matter what I’m doing. And, he encourages me to do things that will bring the most fulfillment… but is with me even if I don’t.

This has helped me feel much more safe with God, and so I like spending time with Him much more.

Learn more in today’s episode.

Your relationship with God is the FOUNDATION to being Grounded in God.

Watch on YouTube here.

Dr. Mike

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Is your wife saying she doesn’t feel safe with you?

Are your kids staying away from you in certain situations?

Do your wife and kids shy away from sharing their emotions with you?

If so, there’s a lack of emotional safety in your family relationships.

And, if you want loving relationships with your kids…

And an intimate relationship with your wife…

You need to create emotional safety.

Learn how in today’s episode.

(And, by the way, it doesn’t mean that you have to be “emotionally perfect” to build emotional safety).

Watch on YouTube here.

Dr. Mike

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What do you do when your kid is scared?

Tell him not to be scared?

What do you do when you’re mad?

Yell at the person?

Tell yourself you shouldn’t feel that way?

The problem with this kind of response is that it doesn’t let the emotion move through and out of you.

Emotion means to move out.

Step 1 in tending to emotions is to acknowledge it’s there, and that it has a good reason to be there.

Do this with yourself and others and your relationships will improve immediately.

Step 2 is to let the emotion move you.

Learn more in today’s episode.

Listen on the Strong Men Strong Marriages Podcast. 

https://strongmenstrongmarriages.buzzsprout.com/

Watch on YouTube here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpHZWdoEVv0

Dr. Mike

P.S. Get the 7 Day Email Series: How To Be More Attractive To Your Wife at StrongMen.io

What do you want out of life?

Six pack abs?

Millions of dollars?

A life full of loving relationships?

Anything worthwhile also has a cost.

Are you willing to pay the price to have those things?

Learn how to evaluate that cost…

And how to create a community of people to help you keep going when you feel like it’s not worth it…

In today’s episode.

Listen on the Strong Men Strong Marriages Podcast. 

https://strongmenstrongmarriages.buzzsprout.com/

Watch on YouTube here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMlSxHQEuNY

Dr. Mike

P.S. Strong Men Strong Marriages is becoming Grounded in God in 2026. We’ll be starting with a group of 5-7 men as our Founder’s Group. Reply to this email if you’re interested in joining. More details to come.

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Do you have to do things?

Work? Be a good dad? Be a good husband?

Do your kids have to do things? Get their jobs done? Go to school?

Does your wife have to do things? Give you attention, appreciation, affection and sex?

Here’s the thing.

When we think we and others HAVE TO do things…

It creates BURDEN.

And, most people don’t want to be in a relationship that feels like a burden.

Instead, what do you WANT to create in your relationships?

And how can you align what you want with what the important people in your life want?

This question unlocks creativity, freedom and happy relationships.

Listen on the Strong Men Strong Marriages Podcast. 

https://strongmenstrongmarriages.buzzsprout.com/

Watch on YouTube here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DMR62z2mgA

Dr. Mike

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I know. We talk about how you shouldn’t really need these things from your wife.

But, we all want them.

And, there’re nothing wrong with wanting them.

After a tough therapy session this week, God helped me understand how taking care of a wife actually works.

So that she freely gives attention, affection, appreciation and sex to her husband.

Learn what it is in today’s episode.

Listen on the Strong Men Strong Marriages Podcast. 

https://strongmenstrongmarriages.buzzsprout.com/

Watch on YouTube here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkvJVRQj50E

Dr. Mike

P.S. Get the 7 Day Email Series: How To Be More Attractive To Your Wife at StrongMen.io