Cody Butler says when emotional pressure is high, your partner's nervous system shuts down. To rebuild trust and get her to open up, stop explaining yourself and listen instead. Women want to be heard, not defended against.
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and it's predicting the conversation with you is going to be painful. So we have to reset that. We have to get back to a point where her nervous system predicts that conversation with you becomes productive, supportive. That's when she opens up, starts to open up again, when, when pressure decreases within the relationship and when emotional trust starts to Rebuild. And I can tell you the simplest way to do this, man, is just keep your mouth shut. It's as simple as that. You know, in our Win Your Wife Back program, the thing we say all the time, button the beak, button the beak, button the beak. Listen to your wife. Listen to— all she wants to do is be listened to. You don't have to explain yourself. The best thing you can do to decrease the emotional pressure and to increase the trust that she needs is to speak much less and just to listen.