Do you remember when they couldn’t keep their hands off of you, but now you can’t remember the last time you shared a tender caress?

This is the most common story I hear from couples.
Here’s why it happens—and how to get the spark back. 🧵
Passion doesn’t just “fade with time.”
It’s starves.

The fuel for lifelong passion is a hormone called oxytocin—the bonding chemical that makes touch feel electric and intimacy feel irresistible.
Without it, you drift apart.
With it, you can’t keep your hands off each other.
So how do you refill your oxytocin tank?

I call it the Oxytocin Pipeline.
It’s a sequence that builds bonding step by step, bringing you from emotional distance back to desire.

Here’s how it works:
1️⃣ Emotional Safety
You can’t feel desire when you’re bracing for rejection, criticism, or conflict.
Safety means you can drop your guard.

2️⃣ Emotional Closeness
Talk. Laugh. Share. Feel like partners, not roommates. This warms up the nervous system for connection.
3️⃣ Nonsexual Touch
Hand holding. Hugs. A hand on the back. Small, steady doses of contact tell the brain “we’re safe and loved.”

4️⃣ Sexual Touch
A step above. Playful, flirty touches that signal desire without pressure or demands.
5️⃣ Foreplay
Not rushed. Not skipped. A loving warm-up primes both partners’ brains and bodies for intimacy.

6️⃣ Sex
The culmination of connection, not the first step toward it. Oxytocin peaks here.
7️⃣ Aftercare.
Cuddles. Words of affirmation. Falling asleep together. This seals the bond and tells your nervous systems to crave more next time.

This is not the end - it begins the repetition cycle. Repeat all 7 steps again.
Every time you repeat the pipeline, oxytocin grows stronger.

And with stronger oxytocin, sexual desire skyrockets—especially for women.

Most couples I coach report a 3X increase in sexual frequency within the first month of using this method.
Passion doesn’t “die with age.”
It dies from neglecting what feeds it.
Try this pipeline together. Watch how fast the warmth returns.

And if you want the full blueprint to rebuild connection and keep your marriage thriving for life, DM me the word MARRIAGE.

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Jul 22
This is fascinating data on loneliness and how American men and women are spending their time. And the differences are stark. Let’s dissect this data and what it means: 🧵 Image
First, notice women have nearly double the average number of hours per day with their children that men do. This should be no shock to anyone, but it is a harsh reminder that fathers are getting a lot less time with their kids (for a variety of reasons), so that time is precious.
We can discuss voluntary time with kids versus caretaking time and the labor impact there, but for secure attachment we WANT mothers to have a significantly high number of hours. Six hours on average is actually low for a healthy society if they want a healthy future population.
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Jun 23
He’s touch starved.
She feels emotionally abandoned.
He’s burning with unmet desire.
She’s drowning in invisible labor.

This is the fight happening on my timeline right now and in many marriages.
But it’s not a war.
It’s a cry for connection on both sides.

Let’s break it down🧵
Most men stop receiving physical affection after age 12—unless they get it from a romantic partner.

That means for many husbands, the only place they feel physical warmth, comfort, and touch is in bed.

When that touch vanishes, it’s not just about sex.
It’s about survival.
Men are biologically wired for regular sexual release—yes.
But more than that, oxytocin bonding happens through physical contact, cuddling, kissing, and intimacy.
When men go without it, their bodies flood with cortisol, not calm.
It’s fight-or-flight.
It’s chemical starvation.
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Jun 19
Your wife doesn’t want sex.
She doesn’t initiate it.
She doesn’t respond when you do.
And you’re stuck wondering what happened to the woman who used to want you.

Let’s talk about what’s really going on (and how to fix it). 🧵
It’s not about your body.
It’s not about her hormones.
It’s not even about her libido.

The real issue is this:
She doesn’t feel safe.
Not physically—emotionally.
And when a woman doesn’t feel emotionally safe, her body shuts down.
She’s not withholding sex to punish you.
She’s not trying to frustrate you.
She’s trying to survive.

If she feels unseen, unheard, emotionally alone, or constantly misunderstood…
Her body responds by pulling back.
It’s a nervous system shutdown, not a rejection.
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Jun 17
The wife feels lonely and sad, but the husband has no idea why. They love each other but don't like each other anymore.

This is by far the most common married couple who comes to me for help. And there's a specific reason this is happening.

Here's the reason:
There's a hidden relationship dynamic playing out in about 50% of adults:

Growing up in families that didn't teach the vital skills needed to maintain a functioning romance has led to generations of adults who can't maintain a marriage and make it thrive.

Here's why:
You learn skills by seeing someone else using them or by having someone transmit them to you through experience.

In other words, if your parents didn't have a thriving marriage or raise you to form intentional bonds, how will you know what to do?

You're missing skills like:
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Jun 3
You're not broken.
You’re not heartless.
You’re not incapable of love.
You’ve just trained your nervous system to survive, build, and win.

But now you’re winning ALONE.
Let’s talk about why. 🧵
If you’re a high-performing man, your success came by forging extreme mental discipline.

You optimized for logic.
You killed off distraction.
You made pain productive.

And in the process? You overdeveloped your prefrontal cortex and shut down everything soft.
Emotional expression? Suppressed.
Oxytocin bonding? Blocked.
Vulnerability? Filed under “inefficient.”
Not because you're cold.
Because you had to be efficient to build what you’ve built.
But the same survival mode that built your empire?
It’s killing your connection.
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You're married.
You love each other.
But lately…
You feel like roommates.
She feels emotionally starved.
He feels physically rejected.
You're both frustrated.
And nobody knows how to fix it.
🧵Let’s talk about what’s really going on:
Your marriage isn’t broken because you stopped loving each other.

It’s stuck in a cycle of survival.

She’s emotionally shut down.
He’s physically shut down.
And both of you are waiting for the other person to make the first move.
For many wives, emotional intimacy is prerequisite to physical intimacy.

She needs to feel safe
She needs to feel seen
She needs to feel emotionally held
Without that? Her body says “no.”
Not out of spite—out of self-protection.
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