26-Year Marriage, No Connection: How to Show Love Without Avoiding | Marriage Q&A | Ep402

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Cass Morrow, Author of Disrupting Divorce: The NEW Man. Saving Struggling, Sexless, and Toxic Marriages.

Kathryn Morrow, Author of Behind The White Picket Fence.

I Love My Wife… But I Struggle to Show It. Why?

Chris has been married 26 years. He works on the road. He says he loves his wife… but she doesn’t feel it. She’s doing the self-growth, learning attachment styles, sending him resources — and he’s stuck in the same pattern: avoid conflict, avoid hard conversations, “I’ll get to it,” then never gets to it.
Cass calls it out: you’re not “dismissive avoidant.”

You’re afraid of conflict. You’re afraid of not being good enough. And you’re using labels as an excuse to keep avoiding the work.

This episode breaks down:

• Why “dismissive avoidant” is often a symptom, not your identity
• The real label: conflict-avoidant (learned avoidance)
• Why your wife researching you is a GOOD sign (she still wants you)
• Why “I love you” doesn’t matter if she can’t FEEL it
• How to rebuild connection while you’re on the road: call for the good stuff, then learn to hold the hard stuff
• Why over-explaining turns into defensiveness (and kills intimacy)
• The difference between wanting change and FOLLOWING THROUGH

If your wife still wants you… stop acting like you’ve got time.

Go love her like a man who’s about to lose her.

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Our journey is a testament to overcoming adversity, with challenges including Cass’ restraining order, seven separations, and two divorce lawyers. If we can survive and thrive in toxic, abusive, and sexless marriages, what’s your excuse?

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Cass and Kathryn came back from the depths of hell to save their marriage and keep their family together.  Battling narcissism, abuse, reactive abuse, emotional, physical and sexual assault. Listen as they share their lessons, actionable steps and real life examples from even the worst of their story. 

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