You Don't Know If It's Over. You Just Know You Can't Keep Going Like This | Ep 55
Create More Intimacy: A Podcast for MenShow Notes
Most men don't say it directly. But somewhere underneath the exhaustion and the distance, there's a question that keeps coming back at 2am: is this actually over?
In this episode, we go into what that question is really asking - and why the answer looks very different once the tunnel opens up.
What you'll hear:
Why "is this over?" is almost never just about the marriage
What the phrase "I can't keep going like this" is actually telling you
Why wanting to go back to how things were leads to the same painful place
What looking honestly at leaving can reveal about the options you stopped seeing
The fear of infidelity, in both directions, and what it signals
What comes before the question gets answered
The path forward isn't backwards. It's through something you haven't done yet.
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