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How To Create A Sexual Connection Whenever You Want To

Dan Dore & Steve Horsmon • 4m 50s • 2 June 2025

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How To Create A Sexual Connection Whenever You Want To
Video overview: If sex only seems possible when your wife wants it, it can start to feel like she holds all the cards to your confidence, desire, and sexual fulfillment. This video is about learning how to create polarity, spark, and positive sexual tension from your side of the relationship instead of waiting around for permission to feel wanted.

It’s a miserable feeling when your sex life feels like it only exists on her terms.

If she wants it, maybe it happens.

If she doesn’t, nothing happens.

If she’s in the right mood, you feel hopeful.

If she’s tired, distant, irritated, or uninterested, you feel shut out again.

After a while, it can start to feel like your wife holds all the cards to your sexual fulfillment. She decides when sex is possible. She decides when affection happens. She decides when the door opens and when it stays closed.

And you’re left waiting.

That waiting can do strange things to a man.

At first, you may try to be patient. You tell yourself she’s tired. You tell yourself not to pressure her. You tell yourself it will come back. You try to be understanding, kind, helpful, careful, and respectful.

But if the pattern goes on long enough, patience can turn into resentment.

You start feeling powerless.

You start watching her mood.

You start measuring every touch, every kiss, every look, every moment of closeness, wondering whether it might lead somewhere.

And that’s when the whole sexual space between you starts to feel loaded.

A hug isn’t just a hug anymore.

A kiss isn’t just a kiss.

A playful comment becomes a test.

A night on the couch becomes another quiet emotional negotiation where nobody says the real thing out loud.

That’s not polarity.

That’s pressure.

And pressure kills sexual energy.

Brother, I know why men get into this place. When you feel sexually starved in your own marriage, it’s very hard not to become focused on whether she wants you. Her desire becomes the scoreboard. Her response becomes the proof. Her openness becomes the thing you believe you need before you can feel confident again.

But that puts you in a terrible position.

Because now your sexual confidence is outside of you.

It lives in her mood.

It rises and falls based on her response.

It waits for her permission.

And a man who is waiting for permission to feel sexual, confident, playful, and alive will usually become less attractive over time.

Not because he’s bad.

Because he’s no longer leading the energy.

This video is about what needs to change inside that dynamic.

When I talk about creating sexual connection whenever you want to, I’m not talking about forcing sex. I’m not talking about manipulating her into the bedroom. I’m not talking about ignoring her feelings, her body, her stress, her no, or her pace.

That’s not leadership.

That’s immaturity.

What I’m talking about is your ability to create the conditions where sexual energy has a chance to exist again.

Polarity.

Spark.

Play.

Positive tension.

Warmth.

Confidence.

Desire without desperation.

Invitation without pressure.

A man who can bring that energy into the relationship doesn’t sit around like a rejected customer waiting for his wife to open the shop. He also doesn’t become pushy, sulky, or entitled.

He becomes alive.

He becomes grounded in his own sexual confidence.

He can want his wife without needing her immediate response to decide his worth.

That is a very different presence.

Most men lose this because they start taking rejection personally. One no becomes a wound. Several no’s become a story. Months or years of low sex become proof that they’re unwanted, unattractive, powerless, or foolish for still wanting her.

Then the man starts changing.

He becomes careful.

He stops flirting.

He stops initiating.

Or he initiates with so much hidden hurt behind it that she feels the pressure before he even touches her.

He may say nothing, but the room says everything.

“Please want me.”

“Please make me feel like a man again.”

“Please don’t reject me.”

“Please fix this ache in me.”

That’s a heavy thing for a woman to feel.

And most women don’t relax into heavy.

They either shut down, avoid, go cold, stay busy, or keep the sexual gate closed because the whole thing feels unsafe, awkward, or full of obligation.

Again, this doesn’t mean everything is your fault.

Your wife has her part. Her openness matters. Her relationship to sex matters. Her stress, resentment, fears, history, hormones, and willingness all matter.

But if you keep staring at her part, you’ll stay stuck.

Your power is in the part you can lead.

You can learn how to bring clean desire.

You can learn how to create playful tension without making it a demand.

You can learn how to touch without turning touch into a contract.

You can learn how to flirt without needing applause.

You can learn how to hear “not tonight” without collapsing, punishing, or disappearing into shame.

That is where real sexual confidence gets built.

Not in getting a yes every time.

In knowing how to stay connected to yourself regardless of the response.

A sexually confident man doesn’t need to act like he doesn’t care. He cares. He wants. He desires. He loves the idea of a warm, playful, intimate marriage.

But he doesn’t make his wife responsible for carrying all of his sexual identity.

That’s a powerful shift.

Because when you stop waiting for her to create the sexual energy, you start asking a better question: “What am I bringing into the space between us?”

Am I bringing play or pressure?

Confidence or need?

Warmth or resentment?

Invitation or expectation?

A full life or a starving ache?

Those questions matter.

This video will help you see why polarity disappears, why waiting for her to want it first makes you feel powerless, and why your ability to create spark starts with your own grounded masculine confidence.

Because sex in marriage is not just about timing.

It’s about energy.

And if the energy between you has become tense, cautious, resentful, or flat, then that’s where the work begins.

Not by begging for more sex.

Not by pretending you don’t care.

Not by handing her all the power.

But by becoming the man who can create positive sexual tension from self-respect, playfulness, and clean desire.

That’s how the door begins to open again.

Stop waiting for permission

If your sex life feels like it only happens when your wife decides it can, you don’t have to keep living in powerless frustration. We can help you rebuild confidence, create cleaner sexual energy, and lead intimacy without pressure, resentment, or neediness.

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About the Hosts

Steve Horsmon & Dan Dore | Certified Professional Men’s Coach

Steve Horsmon and Dan Dore have spent over a decade supporting good men who are confused, frustrated, and afraid that their marriages and families are falling apart with no idea what to do about it. We've both experienced the same emotions that you're going through now. We know what it feels like to try all the mainstream try harder, be nicer advice while watching things continue to get worse. And that's exactly why Goodguys2Greatmen exists. Since 2012, we've coached thousands of men through some of the hardest periods of their lives; marriage breakdown, emotional distance, sexless relationships, fears of divorce or separation. We focus on practical solutions to help you survive some of the most challenging and painful experiences that a man can go through. This podcast is for men who are done waiting for their life and relationships to improve and are ready to make some bold decisions so that you become more calm and confident and start moving toward what you really want.