What do you do when your husband is emotionally distant? Granted, men aren’t like women when it comes to discussing feelings and emotions. They do not share their inner world with anyone, and try to solve their problems themselves. However, when this takes to an extreme, i.e. when your husband shuts you out, something needs to be done. Emotional miscommunication is an incredibly quick killer of relationships.

Your Husband is Emotionally Distant…

Going back and looking at when he started to be this way can help you in determining what the reason is, and what you should do in order to repair your marriage. Usually, the reason is an ongoing issue, or the fact that you two are fighting too frequently.

When your husband thinks that if he opens his mouth and says something substantial, like his thoughts or feelings; you two are going to end up fighting, he will keep his mouth shut. He will completely stop to talk about “real” things because he thinks it is going to make you two fight, and he certainly doesn’t want one.

Really – that’s all there is. Your husband is emotionally distant because he thinks you are simply not respecting his thoughts, or you criticise him too often for this. So what can you do to convince him otherwise?

Do This:

You simply go to your husband and want him to talk about his feelings. Really. He, being a man, will of course refuse that he hasn’t been talking about his feelings nowadays. And that’s where you leave it – don’t push it any further but make him know that you are aware he has been distant and emotionally unavailable.

And Then Do This:

If you two are not spending enough time with each other, it is just going to make it harder for him to really talk about what he is going through in his life. The best cure in these situations is to just spend more time with him alone. No matter how busy your schedules are, if you plan ahead you can always spend some alone time with your husband. Do this a couple of times and you will see that things will start to change. You don’t need to be with him all the time. Just a dinner out once every week, or simply having a walk outside together – these are things that will bring you two closer. When your husband is emotionally distant, you take the first step and the rest will come.