Do NOT Argue the Facts With Your Wife (here's why) - Dr. Robert Glover

His wife said he hadn't told her he loved her all day. He had screenshots proving he'd said it five times. He kept them to himself, and that was the whole lesson.
Part three of our five-part week with Dr. Robert Glover, best-selling author of No More Mr. Nice Guy, and probably the most immediately useful one. Glover draws the line between a factual statement and an emotional statement, and makes the case that when your wife says something that seems provably unfair, the accusation was never the point. The trigger you feel is the signal.
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IN THIS EPISODE:
The candle story: why knowing this and embodying it are completely different things
Why patterns live in your nervous system, not in what you've read
Regulating in real time: what he did when his wife made a jab in the park
Jon's own account of trying to stay calm through a hard conversation about school
Ground, breathe, open, get curious: the four-word checklist for any conversation
Emotional statements vs. factual statements, and why taking the bait always loses
The "I love you" screenshots, and the apology that came two days later on its own
This is part 3 of 5. Also this week: Nice Guy Syndrome and shame, boundaries for men, brotherhood and male isolation, and attracting the feminine.
Hear Glover's full conversation at frontrowdads.com/518. His book is No More Mr. Nice Guy.