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Re: Why Some Husbands Slowly Shut Down Emotionally. by Kobojunkie:
Greattha:
1. While it's important for women to prioritize their own well-being, healthy relationships often involve mutual care and support.
✓ Emotional connection benefits both partners.
✓ Let's really hope you find peace, healing and forgiveness cos your anger towards men is exhausting.
✓ Remember, every man is a woman's son and every woman is a man's daughter.
1. Wrong! Mutual care has absolutely nothing to do with regulating another human beings emotions and mental health for them. That is toxic as f0ck behavior. That is why parents who do so for their children are considered to codependent to those children and end up drained and miserable for it in the long run. You are not meant to do that to a child let alone a grown-arsed adult. 🥱🥱

2. You mean emotional connection powered by the individual brains of the individuals in the relationship and not by the brain of just the one individual trying to force all the emotional labor on oneself, right? When one person is responsible for powering the emotional connection in a relationship it is the ultimate sign of being in toxic situation. undecided

3. You will never find peace in all of the toxic nonsense you spew here...many of you are too used to performative nonsense you refer to as peace, love, happiness all in the name of keeping marriage going that you can't even see things clearly for what they really are...fleeting ideas and concepts that make no sense in the end. 🥱🥱

4. If this why you all decided that marriage should be literal mental, physical and emotional punishment for every women who is someone's daughter? Nonsense!!!🥱🥱🥱
Re: Why Some Husbands Slowly Shut Down Emotionally. by essentialone(m): 6:09pm On Dec 27, 2025
Double0h7:
If a lady’s yanch is disgusting to you, then a man’s yanch must be what? I dey suspect you ooo 😏
You missed the point. That acronym shows that ladies are generally lazy and disgusting, and their only value is their Yanch and everything related to it.
Re: Why Some Husbands Slowly Shut Down Emotionally. by budaatum: 6:12pm On Dec 27, 2025
lailo:
comments I read here shows most of u are not married or kids in adult body. There is nothing u can do to satisfy a woman. You can never satisfy a woman. Know this and know peace
I think the adults amongst us need to come and educate you that you must satisfy your partner or you can't (or shouldn't) have a partner.

If you understand the mutuality of a partner in a marriage, you'd understand too how you can and must satisfy each other.

Oh! And you don't need to give her money because she is far way more intelligent and (I) earns way much more than you do.
Re: Why Some Husbands Slowly Shut Down Emotionally. by noony926: 6:43pm On Dec 27, 2025
Many wives ask the same question in silence: When did things change? Why does he feel distant? What happened to the connection we once had?
Feelings in marriage do not vanish suddenly. They weaken gradually. Love fades through repeated habits, not single mistakes. A husband rarely loses feelings overnight; it happens when emotional connection breaks down and remains broken for too long.
The most common cause is emotional neglect. This does not mean physical absence or intentional cruelty. It means a lack of emotional response. Conversations feel one-sided. Concerns feel minimized or dismissed. Appreciation feels rare. Over time, a husband stops sharing what he thinks and feels because he learns it leads nowhere. Emotional withdrawal begins quietly, almost invisibly.
Another cause is repeated conflict without repair. Arguments alone do not destroy a marriage. What causes harm is the atmosphere within those arguments. Sarcasm. Harsh words. Constant criticism. When conflict becomes personal, respect erodes. Attraction struggles to survive where respect feels lost. A husband who feels belittled or constantly wrong stops leaning in emotionally.
Unresolved resentment plays a major role. Issues that are never addressed do not disappear; they accumulate. A husband may stop bringing things up because past attempts led to defensiveness, dismissal, or no change. He withdraws to protect himself from further disappointment. This distance is often mistaken for peace. It is not. It is emotional shutdown.
Identity drift also matters. People change after marriage. Responsibilities increase. Pressures grow. Priorities shift. Problems arise when couples fail to talk openly about those changes. One partner evolves in a new direction while the other feels left behind. The marriage begins to feel out of sync with real life. A husband may lose feelings when the relationship no longer reflects who he has become.
Sexual disconnection usually follows emotional distance; it rarely leads it. When intimacy feels forced, rejected, or avoided, emotional closeness weakens further. A husband who feels unwanted eventually stops trying. Desire fades after connection fades.
Many assume losing feelings means love is gone. That assumption blocks healing. In most cases, emotional detachment follows many failed attempts to reconnect. By the time feelings seem absent, warning signs have existed for years.
Marriage does not break because people stop loving. It breaks because they stop repairing. Emotional connection responds to behavior. Change the patterns, and feelings often respond.
This understanding matters. It shifts the focus from blame to awareness, from accusation to action. Marriage survives not on emotion alone, but on intention, effort, and honest repair.
Re: Why Some Husbands Slowly Shut Down Emotionally. by Faposky95: 6:52pm On Dec 27, 2025
budaatum:
In case you have not noticed, we are talking about husbands and wives, and not just men and women.
In Ilesha....Reallyy..?!
Re: Why Some Husbands Slowly Shut Down Emotionally. by joseph1832(m): 7:20pm On Dec 27, 2025
budaatum:
I think the adults amongst us need to come and educate you that you must satisfy your partner or you can't (or shouldn't) have a partner.

If you understand the mutuality of a partner in a marriage, you'd understand too how you can and must satisfy each other.

Oh! And you don't need to give her money because she is far way more intelligent and (I) earns way much more than you do.
Wow. Just found someone who opening admit she selfish. 👍
Re: Why Some Husbands Slowly Shut Down Emotionally. by Greattha: 7:51pm On Dec 27, 2025
See epistle 🤣

Shay na chatgpt u usehuh..abi those so-called research you spoke about last time

Anty, you're bitter...take your own advice...go for therapy like you always tell people here to work on themselves .

Nobody forced you to marry or said that marriage is ultimate for anyone....but don't come here and spill trash always making condescending remarks about men.

Just cos rhe men in your life are toxic doesn't mean all men are toxic....everyone is imperfect in their owm way.

I no get your time today😎



Kobojunkie:
1. Wrong! Mutual care has absolutely nothing to do with regulating another human beings emotions and mental health for them. That is toxic as f0ck behavior. That is why parents who do so for their children are considered to codependent to those children and end up drained and miserable for it in the long run. You are not meant to do that to a child let alone a grown-arsed adult. 🥱🥱

2. You mean emotional connection powered by the individual brains of the individuals in the relationship and not by the brain of just the one individual trying to force all the emotional labor on oneself, right? When one person is responsible for powering the emotional connection in a relationship it is the ultimate sign of being in toxic situation. undecided

3. You will never find peace in all of the toxic nonsense you spew here...many of you are too used to performative nonsense you refer to as peace, love, happiness all in the name of keeping marriage going that you can't even see things clearly for what they really are...fleeting ideas and concepts that make no sense in the end. 🥱🥱

4. If this why you all decided that marriage should be literal mental, physical and emotional punishment for every women who is someone's daughter? Nonsense!!!🥱🥱🥱
Re: Why Some Husbands Slowly Shut Down Emotionally. by FashionCookie(f): 9:58pm On Dec 27, 2025
Double0h7:
Do you remember when it use to be young ladies writing articles on men 😂 😂 😂

We have passed the baton down to our men 😎
grin
Re: Why Some Husbands Slowly Shut Down Emotionally. by budaatum: 11:11pm On Dec 27, 2025
Faposky95:
In Ilesha....Reallyy..?!
Ilesha is not the entire world. It's not even the entire Nigeria.
Re: Why Some Husbands Slowly Shut Down Emotionally. by budaatum: 11:23pm On Dec 27, 2025
Please, can anyone tell me if they think the person below went to school and paid attention if their response to a post that includes "you must satisfy your partner" and "you'd understand too how you can and must satisfy each other" is the below?

joseph1832:
Wow. Just found someone who opening admit she selfish. 👍
Re: Why Some Husbands Slowly Shut Down Emotionally. by V3li(m): 2:57am On Dec 28, 2025
I loose interest when you repeatedly act like a child, you are corrected and it brings issues, you are reckless in spreading without having plans I begin to wonder if you can take care of children and the drift away slowly for my sanity and peace of mind
Re: Why Some Husbands Slowly Shut Down Emotionally. by V3li(m): 2:58am On Dec 28, 2025
I loose interest when you repeatedly act like a child, you are corrected and it brings issues, you are reckless in spreading without having plans I begin to wonder if you can take care of children and the drift away slowly for my sanity and peace of mind. No be me frustration go push to kill person pikin. I am not and I will never be a murderer
Re: Why Some Husbands Slowly Shut Down Emotionally. by joseph1832(m): 5:10am On Dec 28, 2025
budaatum:
Please, can anyone tell me if they think the person below went to school and paid attention if their response to a post that includes "you must satisfy your partner" and "you'd understand too how you can and must satisfy each other" is the below?
I Didnt read this...
Re: Why Some Husbands Slowly Shut Down Emotionally. by Kobojunkie: 5:32am On Dec 28, 2025
V3li:
I loose interest when you repeatedly act like a child, you are corrected and it brings issues, you are reckless in spreading without having plans I begin to wonder if you can take care of children and the drift away slowly for my sanity and peace of mind.
✓ No be me frustration go push to kill person pikin. I am not and I will never be a murderer
How old was she when you married her? 🥱🥱🥱

2. Well, if it had been the woman making the decision to leave, all common sense exists because, how dare a woman chose her sanity and peace of mind over chaos and frustration that could drive her to potentially murder person. 😩😩😩
Re: Why Some Husbands Slowly Shut Down Emotionally. by Nexttpage(m): 6:55am On Dec 28, 2025
Na until you enter enough marriage n divorce your eyes go take clear?
Kobojunkie:
Nonsense! Why should it be the wife's responsibility to police a grown- arsed man's emotions for him? If a man emotionally disconnects from his marriage, it should be his responsibility to detect and immediately correct himself. undecided

Abeg normalize divorce and stop pretending men are adult children women need to take care of in marriage...the same marriage these men are supposedly leaders/heads of. No wonder sex goes out the door after a while with women eventually realizing their husbands are no different from their own children in that they too need raising.😩😩😩😩

Normalize divorce make women freely exit such relationships. A grown man still unable to do the basic inner work required of all adult humans needs a mother and not a wife and no woman's child should be burdened with such nonsense. 😩😩😩
Re: Why Some Husbands Slowly Shut Down Emotionally. by Kobojunkie: 6:56am On Dec 28, 2025
Nexttpage:
Na until you enter enough marriage n divorce your eyes go take clear?
This makes no sense! 🥱🥱
Re: Why Some Husbands Slowly Shut Down Emotionally. by Kajaard: 7:15am On Dec 28, 2025
Kobojunkie must always post. Thank God I can't see her posts anymore as I blocked her.
Re: Why Some Husbands Slowly Shut Down Emotionally. by budaatum: 10:14am On Dec 28, 2025
joseph1832:
I Didnt read this...
You obviously didn't read my previous that you responded, though it's very obvious you did read this and are just telling fibs.

But don't you worry. My faith in you growing will not waver despite current stagnancy.
Re: Why Some Husbands Slowly Shut Down Emotionally. by joseph1832(m): 10:15am On Dec 28, 2025
budaatum:
You obviously didn't read my previous that you responded, though it's very obvious you did read this and are just telling fibs.

But don't you worry. My faith in you growing will not waver despite current stagnancy.
*Yawn*.

Good 🌄
Re: Why Some Husbands Slowly Shut Down Emotionally. by Sormeh: 11:17am On Dec 28, 2025
Kobojunkie:
Nonsense! Why should it be the wife's responsibility to police a grown- arsed man's emotions for him? If a man emotionally disconnects from his marriage, it should be his responsibility to detect and immediately correct himself. undecided

Abeg normalize divorce and stop pretending men are adult children women need to take care of in marriage...the same marriage these men are supposedly leaders/heads of. No wonder sex goes out the door after a while with women eventually realizing their husbands are no different from their own children in that they too need raising.😩😩😩😩

Normalize divorce make women freely exit such relationships. A grown man still unable to do the basic inner work required of all adult humans needs a mother and not a wife and no woman's child should be burdened with such nonsense. 😩😩😩
Lols. Are you a man? If yes, are you married and for how long?
Re: Why Some Husbands Slowly Shut Down Emotionally. by Kobojunkie: 12:33pm On Dec 28, 2025
Sormeh:
✓ Lols. Are you a man? If yes, are you married and for how long?
What has the details of particulars to do with the vomit that is OP's submission? 🥱🥱🥱
Re: Why Some Husbands Slowly Shut Down Emotionally. by Sormeh: 10:50pm On Dec 29, 2025
Kobojunkie:
What has the details of particulars to do with the vomit that is OP's submission? 🥱🥱🥱
Never mind, lady. I already read up a little enough to satisfy my query. But then, there's something I like about you.
Re: Why Some Husbands Slowly Shut Down Emotionally. by Merry100:
essentialone:
You missed the point. That acronym shows that ladies are generally lazy and disgusting, and their only value is their Yanch and everything related to it.
It is easy to tell when a guy has independent sisters; they tend to be more mature and respectful toward women. Don't use the lifestyle of your sisters to assume that all women are lazy.

Hard work and laziness are individual traits, not gender-based. I have seen women who are extremely hardworking. Some women are even the breadwinners in their homes.

No doubt, there are lazy women, but it is not a gender thing.

I know a man who refuses to work. His wife is even the breadwinner of the family. When offered a job, he declines.

I also know a particular woman who doesn't want to work. She often asks me for money, but when I offered her a job, she declined, saying that starting work at 7:30 a.m was too early. I even introduced her to plantain and potato chips business, bought everything she needed, showed her how to run it, and even taught her a helpful hack to make slicing easier but she complained it was too stressful and gave up on the business.

The plantain and potato chips business was actually one of my first small ventures; my humble beginnings. I still make them at home occasionally. Presently, I am frying some sliced potatoes. I prepared some as a side for the meal I prepared for my friends during the festive season, and one friend liked it so much that he asked me to make some for him again.

It is possible you are only surrounded by lazy ladies, but in general, women are hardworking.

Re: Why Some Husbands Slowly Shut Down Emotionally. by essentialone(m): 5:32am On Jan 03
Merry100:
It is easy to tell when a guy has independent sisters; they tend to be more mature and respectful toward women. Don't use the lifestyle of your sisters to assume that all women are lazy.

Hard work and laziness are individual traits, not gender-based. I have seen women who are extremely hardworking. Some women are even the breadwinners in their homes.

No doubt, there are lazy women, but it is not a gender thing.

I know a man who refuses to work. His wife is even the breadwinner of the family. When offered a job, he declines.

I also know a particular woman who doesn't want to work. She often asks me for money, but when I offered her a job, she declined, saying that starting work at 7:30 a.m was too early. I even introduced her to plantain and potato chips business, bought everything she needed, showed her how to run it, and even taught her a helpful hack to make slicing easier but she complained it was too stressful and gave up on the business.

The plantain and potato chips business was actually one of my first small ventures; my humble beginnings. I still make them at home occasionally. Presently, I am frying some sliced potatoes. I prepared some as a side for the meal I prepared for my friends during the festive season, and one friend liked it so much that he asked me to make some for him again.

It is possible you are only surrounded by lazy ladies, but in general, women are hardworking.
J.D.P.

Just Dey Play
Re: Why Some Husbands Slowly Shut Down Emotionally. by Merry100: 1:10pm On Jan 03
essentialone:
J.D.P.

Just Dey Play
Facts don't need validation
Re: Why Some Husbands Slowly Shut Down Emotionally. by essentialone(m): 5:47pm On Jan 03
Merry100:
Facts don't need validation
Ok
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