Blake R TempletonFounder, Son of Wisdom · Son of Wisdom · Spiritual architect for men

What If She's Been Initiating This Whole Time?

21 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment of Blake R. Templeton’s YouTube video, he advises men to reconsider how they interpret a partner’s attempts at intimacy. He argues that when a woman initiates intimacy but the man fails to notice, it’s often because he is not attuned to her specific physical signals rather than because she is disinterested. Templeton recommends that men actively define and learn their partner’s unique signals, ask directly about them, and adjust their role to receive these cues. By doing so, they avoid mistakenly labeling their partner as distant and instead recognize her as the initiator of intimacy.

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Yes, so true. So if she initiates intimacy and he misses it, don't call her distant later. Like, some wives are not refusing intimacy. There's a signal, all right? Their signal is just not registering because you're in the wrong role to receive it. So instead of assuming she never initiates, ask her what her signal is. Define a physical signal and then learn that language, and she won't seem distant. She'll seem like the one pursuing.