I’m going to share 2 powerful tips for turning a passionless and distant or failed relationship around immediately.
If your man has suddenly pulled away, or you’ve been fighting and your relationship came apart… but you know there’s something special that’s worth saving… then this post can show you exactly what you need to know to turn things around and get him back.
*Note: If your problem is because your boyfriend is afraid of commitment- then that’s a slightly different situation. In this case you should read my post on how to get your emotionally unavailable man to get over his commitment fears.
Here we go…
Imagine being back in that place you were in when you and the man in your life first started getting to know each other.
Imagine having him excited just to be with you and be close to you the way he used to be.
Imagine everything suddenly feeling EASY and free again, the way love is supposed to when it’s working.
Now imagine that this can happen right away for you in your relationship, if you just put a few of the right tools and steps into place.
Keep reading and I’ll show you how your man can, and will, be quickly transformed by you and your natural feminine power as a woman.
And, for the shortcut on how you can create this amazing and instant “shift” in your relationship, to where your guy is CRAZY about just spending time with you again, go here now:
http://www.CatchHimKeepHim.com/RelationshipTurnAround
Get Your BoyFriend Back Step #1: Shift From Criticism to Vulnerability
A man doesn’t want a woman who’s upset, irritable, and hard to be close to.
In fact, that’s the last thing most men want, and the first reason most men start thinking about leaving a relationship with a woman that they used to love.
But, most women don’t become hard-edged, annoyed and worn down by their man and relationship on purpose.
They stop getting what they want, and so they start to build WALLS and shut down the part of them that was VULNERABLE and that a man could love in the first place.
Does any of this sound familiar?
Think back to the last time you were in a fight with your man or he did or said something that really got under your skin?
How did you react?
Did you feel yourself tighten and become disconnected from him emotionally?
Was it difficult to open up and really LISTEN to what he had to say because all you could think about was how wrong he was?
I get it.
When you’re feeling resentful or disconnected from a man because he’s hurt you, the LAST thing you want to do is to become softer, more vulnerable or accepting of the love and attention he wants to give you.
That’s because when your man has let you down in some way, your normal reaction is to PUSH HIM AWAY.
You do that because you want him to know and to FEEL how much you’re hurting, and you want him to see you and love you.
But, instead of loving him to get him to love you back, you do things like:
- Criticize him
- Pretend like nothing is wrong and withdraw
- Get angry at little things he says
- Withhold your love, affection, and sex
- Give him the “silent treatment”
But let me ask you this…
If it’s MORE that you want, why is it so often that you find yourself giving LESS?
For most women, this happens because they already feel like they are giving too much of themselves.
And, that they’re the only one giving, or they’re just not getting much, if anything, back for all that they do for their guy.
Sound familiar?
You start to think that everything you’re doing for the relationship is a chore, or just plain hard work, and you let him know in obvious (and not so obvious) ways.
You start to see not just the thing he did that upset you — but ALL the ways he upsets you or irritates you.
So, all the little things he does that were just little annoying “quirks” before, become one of the many major reasons why things just aren’t “working.”
One thing sets it off, but now he can’t do ANYTHING right in your eyes.
But, here’s the result of going down those paths – they never get you the solution you’re REALLY looking for, or get you what you really want and need from your man.
Which is – more love and affection. More understanding. More connection.
There’s a better way…
If You Want To Get Him Back, Get Him To Open Up First…
What if, instead of shutting down and becoming blaming and critical of him, you OPENED UP and shifted out of, and away, from the things that weren’t working?
What if instead of intellectually thinking about how wrong he is, and how justified YOU are in what you did or said, you could just stop and get in touch with what you’re feeling, and what you really want?
Do you think your guy would respond differently?
Do you think it would have an impact on your relationship?
You bet it would. But, of course, all this is easier said than done in the moment.
In fact, being able to open and love MORE in the tough times when you feel like your relationship is giving you LESS, is hard.
When someone hurts or upsets you, and you feel unappreciated or unloved, the last thing you want to do is sit around and figure out why you’re feeling the way you do, and look at what else you can do to make things better.
Instead, you want HIM to get with it and start giving to you the way you’ve been giving to him.
But, with this feeling you often want to try and fix things right away, you RESIST the hard feelings that come up inside you and, instead, push them OUTWARDS at him.
This is when you get into the “blaming”, “criticizing” or “needy” mode, which sometimes makes you feel a tiny bit better… but only for a little while until you see that your guy only pulls farther away afterwards.
It doesn’t take a psychologist to see that this is NOT a great strategy for inspiring your guy, for finding more love and happiness, and for building a lasting long-term relationship. So, how do you get out of a destructive and dead-end pattern?
It’s often the things we don’t think to try, that, when we finally give them a chance, create amazing results in our lives. And that means trying something that feels very COUNTERINTUITIVE.
That means stepping out of your comfort zone and doing something different than what feels “normal” and “obvious” in order to change the outcome.
Here’s what I’m getting at…
When you find yourself in that place where you begin to tighten up and resist because your emotions and frustrations are welling up inside you, instead of trying to quickly feel better and ignore or hide those feelings, give yourself some space.
Try feeling it MORE. That’s right – really get deep into what you’re feeling and find the words to describe it. Take a minute to let yourself become aware of WHERE these feelings are really coming from.
Then, once you’ve had a tiny bit of time to feel it and understand it a little bit for yourself, you can share what you’re feeling with your man. Doing this, not only will you start to learn and grow by leaps and bounds in your own heart and mind with this simple exercise… but your relationship will suddenly start to look and feel differently to you, as your man will react differently to you and stay closer and more open to you and what you’re going through.
In the intensity of our own feelings, we often don’t see that however authentic they might be, the way we go about sharing our feelings actually creates more distance between us and pushes our partner away by accident- rather than bringing them closer to us.
What is it you want from your relationship and your communication? To be able to say anything you want, or to have your communication take you and your man both to a higher place together?
In other words… if you start to give yourself a moment to reflect on your own feelings and how you’re communicating them… then by giving yourself space to feel what you feel first, you’ll make space for your real feelings in your relationship and find more understanding from your man. And it’s these moments that create that intense, deep CONNECTION and love that is what a relationship is all about.
Let me ask you… when was the last time you had the experience of a really intense pain or emotion you felt being taken in and understood and talked through with you by your man? When was the last time your man said,
“Wow, I didn’t know you felt that way. I’m sorry. Is there anything I can do”?
If you’re like some women I’ve talked to and helped over the years, then it’s been way, way too long since you’ve felt emotionally supported and heard by a man in this way.
Instead, men seem to react with withdrawal, irritation, anger or frustration each time you tell them how you’re feeling.
It’s time you feel more supported, and your man starts being this way with you on a regular basis. Which leads you to something important here – a CHOICE.
Getting Your Boyfriend Back Is A Choice
You have a choice about how you’re going to keep on handling your own feelings and emotions in your relationship. And… you have a choice in how your feelings are going to shape your experience and your relationship.
You can keep doing what you’ve been doing and hope that it starts to work once a man finally figures it out and gets with it. Or…
You can try something you might not have thought to try before – which is actually opening and sharing more of your deeper FEELINGS, instead of your busy THOUGHTS.
If you try the new way I’m going to show you, then get ready to watch as you get a different outcome and response from your man that you might have not thought possible from around your feelings.
Here are some examples of what I’m talking about…
Let’s say you notice that your guy has a wandering eye, and it upsets you. Should you say something? Should you stay quiet and try to not let it bother you because “men are men”?
The key here is respecting yourself, your true emotions, and sharing what you’re feeling, not what you’re THINKING. Otherwise, you’ll not only put more distance between you and your man… and he probably won’t know why you’re upset and he’ll eventually feel irritated that you’re unhappy for some unknown reason.
So, if it’s your true feelings that are important, what do you say?
Here’s an example of sharing what you’re thinking…
Thinking Statement:
“You must not be attracted to me anymore since you obviously want other women.”
Wrong. This is sure to only create a new problem that probably isn’t about what’s really going on in the first place.
Feeling Statement:
“I feel really scared and gross when you look at or flirt with other women in front of me.”
Now… tell me- what’s going on here, and what’s the difference in these 2 statements? You’re talking about the same thing, but being open and honest enough to stick to your FEELINGS about what’s happening, instead of moving to judgment, is what makes all the difference with a man and making sure he listens and opens up to you in return.
Let’s try another example…
Let’s say your guy doesn’t call and he’s 30 minutes late to meet you or pick you up. How could he do that and not call?
If he had just called, it wouldn’t have been a big deal. Why didn’t he?
What do you say to him? And how do you handle it?
Thinking Statement:
“You’re either dumb or insane if you think you can show up here 30 minutes late and not call and I won’t be angry at you. What’s your problem?”
Feeling Statement:
“I feel upset and confused because I don’t understand why you didn’t call.”
See how the two feel very different?
One feels very offensive, blaming, and antagonistic. It actually raises the level of conflict, and creates tension and distance.
The other one is an “opening” kind of question that actually allows for truth, honesty and promotes answers and understanding.
Oh, and which one do you think a man will respond more openly to? Your thinking statements, or your feeling ones? I can practically guarantee you that a man will either shut down and feel annoyed or withdraw from you, or escalate things and get into an argument with you and not give you any understanding if you used the thinking statements in the above situations.
But, if you used the FEELING statements above, and you left space after them for your guy to say something… then very quickly he’d start to listen, explain himself, and either apologize or give you the understanding and respect you just wanted in the first place.
But, here’s the catch, and where most women mess this up even though they start out with their FEELINGS:
Once you open up and admit your true feelings, you can’t keep going on and on about it.
You have to allow time for a man to process what you just said, and not “rush” things just because you feel uncomfortable and want him to hear you and “get it” immediately.
The secret here is to say how you feel and then simply STOP TALKING.
Most men – about 99.9% of them – do NOT move this fast from one emotion to the next. So when you try and take them with you on that ride, things will often turn ugly.
A relationship takes two people listening, and caring about what’s true for the other person.
This is just a small part of some of the secrets to inspiring a man to be an open and endlessly understanding partner to you.
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In it you’ll discover what gets a man to open up and stay open with everything from love to sex to communication to monogamy. All the details on this program and tons of free tips on how to create an incredible and lasting relationship with a man that will keep you both happy and fulfilled together forever are in this special tips letter here:
Get Your Boyfriend Back Step #2: Invite Love, Don’t Demand It
Have you felt hurt or angry at your man and found yourself saying a whole bunch of things that started with:
“I need. I want. I deserve. You should. You need to. You’d better”?
If those phrases sound familiar to you, that’s because you were talking from the space of ENTITLEMENT. Meaning… you felt like you were “entitled” or deserved to have your man do or say something to make you feel better about yourself or the relationship.
You can have very good reasons for feeling this way. Maybe you feel like you’ve been doing all the WORK in the relationship, and all the sharing, while all he’s done is get distant or confuse you with what he says and does.
Maybe you’ve been doing your best to make him happy and you’ve been withholding how you REALLY feel because you don’t want to hurt him or start a fight. So you feel stifled and powerless in the relationship.
After doing that sort of thing long enough, it’s no wonder you feel like you DESERVE and NEED to get the love, respect and consideration back that you’ve put in. And yeah, you do deserve all those things.
It doesn’t make much sense to you that he doesn’t see or realize how hard you’ve been working to make things right between you.
But in a man’s mind, when he sees you shutting down, pushing him away, and then he hears you telling him how he needs to be doing this, or how he’d better do that, it doesn’t make much sense to him, either.
When you’re feeling hurt and start telling him, “You should” or “You really need to”, you’ll onl get a negative response from your man.
Instead of seeing how you feel, a man will simply SHUT DOWN and back even further away from you. A man has to have HIS OWN REASONS for wanting to do all the things that make you happy and keep your relationship strong.
You can never, ever, ever tell a man how to feel or act – just as a man should never do this with you. A man should respect your feelings, as you should respect his. But you can INSPIRE a man, and you can share what it is that you like, love and want. And therein lies the secret of getting your boyfriend back and having a relationship where the man in your life is irresistibly attracted and devoted to you.
Fortunately, there’s a way to ask for what you need that will have him WANTING to give you more. This way is not about ENTITLEMENT, blaming or demands. It’s by INVITING him, by opening up and making it very easy for him to give you want you want.
Men love nothing more than feeling like it’s easy for them to make you happy as a woman – but only when they feel like it’s their choice. Sound complicated? Like it’s too much work?
It’s not, once you know how. In fact, it’s easy.
You can start to create these powerful shifts in the way your man responds to you simply by changing the way you phrase things.
Instead of saying, “I need you to…” you can say, “It would really make me feel loved if you…”
I can’t tell you how much most women resist doing this because they think it’s silly. but when they finally speak the words, they work like MAGIC. Try it. You’ll be amazed at the different response you’ll suddenly get.
Here’s another…
Instead of telling him, “I need you to (do this or that)”… you can invite him by saying, “It would really make me happy if you would (doing this or that).”
It doesn’t take much to shift your energy and become more inviting and therefore INSPIRE your man to want to give you more of what you want and need.
If you’re not convinced, think back to a time when you felt hurt or angry and you closed off to your man. You blamed him. You didn’t talk to him for hours or days. You criticized and demanded. How did he respond?
I think you’ll realize that the energy you bring to your relationship has a HUGE effect on what you get out of it.
So the question is… what energy are you bringing to your man and your relationship? What were you bringing in the past that might have pushed you both apart in the first place, and is making it hard to get him back?
Are you getting some of what you’re giving in the first place?
You can learn a lot more about how the “energy” you bring into a relationship greatly affects your love life by checking out my Relationship Turnaround by Christian Carter program.
In this program, I reveal a simple but profound TRUTH about getting back the love and devotion you used to have with a man.
In order to turn a troubled relationship around, chances are you need to get back to the relaxed, feminine woman you used to be before things got really tense and draining between you. Problems in relationships tend to accumulate over time and build up a lot of fear, anger or resentment in people. One of the reasons it can seem so difficult to move forward and get through the hard times is because of all that built-up fear and negative emotion.
I’ll show you how to overcome those negative emotions and get more passion and commitment from your man in my “Relationship Turnaround” program.
Getting back to the “real you” and getting back in touch with the relaxed, feminine woman you used to be is very important. How do I know?
Because the most common realization I hear women have when they break up a relationship that wasn’t working is that they LOST THEMSELVES. They didn’t consciously choose to ignore their own needs and desires. It usually just happens because the woman is so focused on trying to make her relationship work, or because she’s so devoted to her man that she virtually IGNORES other aspects of her life.
If you wonder if maybe you’ve put parts of yourself aside in order to protect or save your relationship with your man, and you want to do something important and positive for YOURSELF for a change… and do something that will actually change the quality of your relationship in an amazing way… then I recommend you check out my “Relationship Turnaround” program for free for 30 days.
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Let me know how it goes.
I’ll talk to you again soon, and best of luck in Life and Love.
Christian







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Christian,
Thank you, very much for the information. I lost the love of my life, it was so easy to be the women you talk about, hurt, misguided, codependent ect…. I realise after reading your blogs, I found myself in a lot of these sistuations. I have not seen the love of my life for some time 4 and half months. I asked him if he was dating anyone, his response was it is irrelivant if i am or not. He is right it is. He moved on, yet there are conflicting things he says when we talk. I guess what I am saying after reading, all that you offer. I will not make the same mistakes I made before. The truth when see it sets us free. The truth is amazing. Thank you. Christian in all that you have learned has it made a difference in your relationships?
In-peace and light
Stephanie
Stephanie – thanks for writing. Great to hear you found truth and new perspective. What I’ve learned has made a huge difference in my relationships, and in the depth and quality of the communication I share with others. I think remaining open and aware that there’s always a deeper level of awareness or understanding keeps you on the path.
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Your book was fabulous! I loved learning about the “convincer and resistor” relationship. I was fascinated by 80 percent of the book..even though i’m in a good marriage, we have alot to work on- and your book helped me understand ‘guy talk’… im gonna read it again and again! I want to promote your site and spread the word of how great your book is !!! Is there away to get a personal question answered? I’d love to hear your feedback on my personal situation.. as I can’t find anything simular in your book. Many thanks!