Married Game Podcast Why Are You Leading Everyone Except Your Home?
Dec 18, 2025
In this episode, the discussion reveals how men who excel at work often falter in their leadership at home. Nervousness and desperation can extinguish attraction, leading to a disconnect in relationships. Personal stories highlight the impact of losing focus on intimacy, while a deep dive into the root causes of men's struggles unveils insights into people-pleasing and the need for external validation. Listeners learn how to reclaim their role as confident leaders in their marriages, fostering connection and restoring desire.
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Desperation Kills Attraction
- Women can immediately feel a man's nervous, desperate energy and lose desire for him.
- Keith Yackey says this mismatch in energy explains why high-performing men get rejected at home.
Personal Cost Of Checked-Out Leadership
- Keith Yackey shares that his wife left him after he became checked out and even forgot Mother's Day.
- That moment was the final straw that exposed the cost of losing leadership at home.
Source Energy Transfers Between Domains
- Keith contrasts being the confident source at work with feeling powerless at home.
- He frames the dominant man as the 'sun' people orbit around, explaining why leadership feels natural in one domain and not another.