The Happy Wife School

The Truth About Your Marriage: Your Wife is the One Who Is Emotionally Disengaged

Nov 25, 2025
The discussion centers around emotional unavailability in marriages, particularly focusing on women. Signs of disengagement, like coldness, lack of empathy, and self-focus, reveal deep-rooted emotional walls. Karyn shares her personal journey of vulnerability, encouraging women to take accountability and break patterns. The challenges good men face when trying to connect with emotionally distant partners are also explored. This insightful conversation aims to foster understanding and rekindle love through self-awareness and responsibility.
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ANECDOTE

Man Told He's The Problem

  • Karyn describes a man who was told by his wife he was emotionally unavailable despite trying to meet her needs.
  • She used that case to illustrate projection and gaslighting toward good men.
INSIGHT

Who’s Really Emotionally Unavailable

  • Karyn Seitz argues society has wrongly labeled men as emotionally unavailable while many wives build emotional walls.
  • She asserts emotional unavailability often originates from women's long‑held defenses, not men's nature.
INSIGHT

Universe Of One Defined

  • Emotional unavailability means living in a 'universe of one' and pushing others out of your emotional self.
  • For wives this shows up as rejecting husbands' love and making intimacy feel impossible.
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