5 Toxic Behaviors to Identify
That Can Destroy Your Marriage
- Building a Wall.
- Creating a deep sense of Uncertainty.
- Withholding sex.
- Failing to apologize.
- Crazy making.
Wouldn’t you like to know: the ways you are blocking
Your husband’s ability— to connect and love you?
Ladies, are you unknowingly pushing your husband away?
5 Toxic Behaviors Women Use That Destroy Marriages
Toxic Behaviors in Marriage
- When husbands bring up issues in a marriage, women often react with five toxic behaviors due to feeling wrong and not wanting to take accountability for their shortcomings, which is a protective mechanism to avoid being exposed and having to change 00:30.
- The five toxic behaviors are used to barricade themselves off and avoid admitting where they are wrong and need to improve, which is a result of not wanting to experience hurt or conflict in life 01:06.
1. Women have a “wall” that they build brick by brick from past hurts, which is a defense mechanism to protect themselves from being hurt again, and this wall is something that husbands are constantly up against in the relationship 01:45.
- The wall amplifies when husbands bring up issues that need to be worked on in the relationship, making good men feel intimidated, scared, and anxious, and causing them to feel like they are stepping into the lion’s den 03:55.
- The operation of the wall in a relationship is to hurt back and inflict hurt as retaliation for the hurt felt within themselves, and women filter everything through this wall, leading to unresolved issues and a lack of progress in the marriage 04:51.
- When women feel wrong in a relationship, they may build a wall around themselves, causing their partner to feel pushed away, and this can lead to the partner giving up on the relationship because the wall has become too thick to penetrate, making it difficult for them to connect with their wife 05:23.
2. Gaslighting is another toxic behavior women may exhibit when they feel wrong, which involves psychologically manipulating their partner to doubt their own reality, making them feel flawed and creating a deep sense of uncertainty, leading to unresolved issues in the relationship 05:44.
3. Withholding sex is a toxic behavior women may use when they feel wrong, as they may weaponize sex and use it as a means of retaliation, which can lead to further conflict and make it challenging to have constructive conversations about sex in the marriage 07:50.
4. Failing to apologize is a toxic behavior women may exhibit when they feel wrong, as apologizing would require them to admit they are wrong, and instead, they may choose to avoid apologizing or only apologize to alleviate their own discomfort without making any changes to their behavior 09:33.
5. The fifth toxic behavior women may exhibit when they feel wrong is acting crazy, which can be a means of avoiding accountability and maintaining a sense of control in the relationship 10:36.
Crazy Making
- Crazy making is a behavior where a woman’s emotional turmoil traps her husband, making him feel like he is going crazy and destroying his sense of reality, which is why many men comment that they feel like they are regaining their sanity after realizing they are not crazy 10:45.
- The behaviors that create crazy making in a marriage or relationship include the wall, gaslighting, withholding sex, never apologizing, and crazy making, which are used by women to respond and react to their husbands based on their own internal feelings of chaos 11:37.
- These five toxic behaviors are exhibited by women when they are made to feel wrong, specifically in a marriage, and include the wall, gaslighting, withholding sex, never apologizing, and crazy making 12:22.
Solutions for Women and Men
- For women who want to change their ways and be happy in themselves, there is a course called the Happiness Program that teaches them to resolve their unhealthy relationship with themselves so that they can be the solution to the issues and challenges in their marriage and life 12:53.
- For good men who want to take back the power they have unknowingly given away to their wives, there is a course called the Marriage Rescue Course that teaches them how to rebuild their strength and confidence to navigate the relationship with their wife in a healthy and constructive way 13:23.