One daily practice to strengthen your relationship: notice something your partner does, tell them specifically what it was, and say how it made you feel. Opening doors, a compliment, showing up. That signals approval and activates what makes him want to be better.
How to turn around your relationship. One of the biggest ways to do that is appreciation. So what I challenge you to do is find one thing every day to appreciate your partner about anything small, anything big. Anytime he opens the door for you, or he brought you something, or he gave you a compliment, or he made you happy, or he just is showing up in a better way, appreciate him for that. Let him know especially how it makes you feel, the emotional impact, because that shows him as a man, a signal, a map to let him know that he's doing a good job, to continue doing that, and also that he feels like he is needed by you in some way, which activates his hero instinct even more.
