Why She’s Pissed Off & Turned Off—and How to Fix It | This Masculine Blueprint Is Helping Men End Porn Addiction and Save Their Marriages
- Jake Kastleman
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If your wife seems pissed off and turned off—constantly irritated, emotionally distant, and disinterested in sex—you’re not alone. For many men, this emotional tension fuels the desire to escape into porn. But what if the real issue isn’t her moods... but your missing leadership and emotional disengagement?
In this episode, I’m joined by men’s coach and author GS Youngblood to help you fix your relationship, overcome porn addiction, and become the grounded, trusted man your partner longs for.
You’ll learn how GS’s Masculine Blueprint helps men quit porn by reclaiming their presence, healing emotional wounds, and re-establishing emotional safety and sexual polarity in their marriages. This isn't about control or being a "tough guy"—it’s about rising above Nice Guy syndrome and stepping into calm, clear masculine leadership and love.
Whether you're trying to save your marriage, overcome porn addiction, or feel like a man again, this conversation offers a roadmap to real change.
In this episode, we talk about:
Why she’s pissed off and turned off—and how you can fix it
How emotional disconnection and "Nice Guy syndrome" sabotage intimacy
The key role of emotional safety in rekindling desire
What sexual polarity really means—and why it’s fading from your marriage
How to lead with clarity, not control
Why quitting porn starts with reclaiming your masculine core
If you're ready to fix your relationship, quit porn, and build a partnership filled with connection and trust—this episode is your starting point.
The Masculine Blueprint: A New Paradigm for Men in Recovery
In today's culture, masculinity is often misunderstood or mislabeled as "toxic". GS Youngblood offers a clear and powerful alternative: a modern masculine model rooted in groundedness, clarity, and relational presence. At the heart of his message lies what he calls the "Masculine Blueprint," a framework that consists of three key pillars:
Respond vs. React
Provide Structure
Create Safety
These three concepts don’t just create a better relationship—they build a better man. They are deeply relevant to men in recovery from porn addiction, because addiction often thrives in the absence of grounded leadership, emotional mastery, and true intimacy. Let’s break each of these key pillars down.
Respond vs. React: Embodiment as the Antidote to Escapism
One of the most common traits among men struggling with addiction is reactivity. When anxiety or discomfort hits, the instinct is to escape—into porn, anger, work, the phone, or emotional shutdown. GS frames the solution not in terms of external control, but in the internal power of embodiment.
Embodiment is the practice of shifting your awareness from your racing mind into the physical sensations of your body. Why does this matter? Because the body lives in the present moment, whereas thought lives in the past and future. When you tune into your breath, your posture, your center, or your gut, you reclaim access to a deeper form of knowing. From here, you can make wiser, more mature and more loving decisions.
GS teaches men that when you ground your nervous system daily through embodiment practices, you gain what he calls "spaciousness." This allows you to feel anger, fear, hurt—but not be hijacked by them. You shift from reactive behavior to intentional presence. This presence, in turn, gives you the capacity to respond with strength and clarity rather than self-protective shutdown or addiction.
For men in recovery, this is critical. Porn use is often just a maladaptive reaction to internal tension, loneliness, or unresolved grief. With embodiment, you learn to sit with those feelings—to feel them without fleeing.
Masculinity and Porn Addiction: Understanding the Hidden Link
GS highlights a critical insight that many men overlook: porn addiction is often not just about lust or sexuality—it's about anxiety and emotional avoidance.
When a man feels disconnected from purpose, unsupported in his relationship, or chronically anxious, he will reach for whatever gives momentary relief. For millions, that relief is porn.
But it’s not the real solution. It's a counterfeit connection, a hollow escape. The real issue is internal disconnection—from yourself, your values, your truth, your power. The Masculine Blueprint offers a roadmap back to integrity and alignment, where porn becomes unnecessary because your needs are being met at a deeper level.
This perspective doesn’t shame men for using porn. Instead, it compassionately reveals why they do, and what healing actually looks like.
Stop Being a Nice Guy: Why Pleasing Kills Polarity
Another major topic GS tackles is the difference between kindness and Nice Guy Syndrome. While kindness is rooted in strength and empathy, Nice Guy Syndrome is rooted in fear, approval-seeking, and self-erasure.
The Nice Guy constantly scans for what others want so he can avoid conflict and be liked. He gives away his power and resents his partner for taking it. Over time, this behavior kills sexual polarity. His partner no longer feels the presence of a man who knows himself and his values.
The antidote is internal alignment: a man who validates his own needs and opinions, and shares them with love and confidence. This kind of presence creates attraction, not tension, as long as it is done with attunement to his partner's needs as well. And I will add that consistently being curious and asking questions to understand what your partner wants is a crucial part of this.
Finding Inner Clarity: How to Reclaim Your Center
For men addicted to porn, confused in their relationship, or unclear about what they want, GS offers a deeply practical insight: you don’t need to go find clarity; you need to remove what’s blocking it.
The biggest block? Fear and anxiety.
When a man clears his nervous system and affirms that his needs do matter, inner clarity begins to grow. It’s not about figuring it all out overnight. It’s about noticing what you feel, what you value, and what you’re drawn to when fear is no longer in the driver’s seat.
This clarity becomes the compass for how you show up in your relationship, your recovery, and your mission in life. And I will add that becoming aware of and accepting your fear, so it can move through you rather than control you, brings you more in tune with God, so that you can hear His voice of love and wisdom within.
Emotional Mindfulness: Feel It First, Fix It Later
One of the most practical and transformational takeaways from GS's philosophy is this:
"Feelings first, facts later."
Men are conditioned to fix, to explain, to avoid discomfort. But real emotional maturity comes from being able to feel fully without falling apart. To name what hurts. To sit in the fire of shame, grief, or fear—and stay present.
This doesn’t make you weak. It makes you powerful.
GS encourages men to practice the art of brief but honest emotional expression: "That hurt me. I can bear it. But I need you to know." This simple but masculine approach to emotional sharing builds connection without overexposing.
In porn recovery, this is huge. Emotional suppression fuels relapse. Emotional honesty fuels healing.
Polarity and Partnership: Masculine-Feminine Dynamics That Work
GS clarifies that masculine and feminine are not rigid gender roles, but energetic polarities. Relationships thrive when these polarities are in play: one person leads, the other follows. One provides direction, the other brings flow.
In intimate dynamics, if the man isn’t bringing any grounded masculine leadership, the feminine partner may feel forced to step into that role. This often leads to resentment, criticism, and a shutdown of sexual energy.
Both men and women hold differing degrees of masculine and feminine energy, and this varies from one individual to another. A healthy relationship requires partners to act on these energies in balanced ways that foster structure and create emotional safety.
GS teaches that restoring polarity starts with YOU. Start leading. Start feeling. Start offering direction. It doesn’t mean controlling your partner. It means co-creating a safe space where each of you can flourish in your natural essence.
From Shame to Self-Worth: Healing the Core Belief
Every man in recovery must confront one question: Do I believe I am fundamentally good?
GS shares his own story of realizing how much of his dysfunction came from unconscious shame. The kind that whispers, "You're not enough. You're weak. You don't matter." For many men, porn becomes a way to numb that shame.
But healing requires facing it. Feeling it. And most importantly, replacing it with a new truth: I am good. I am human. I matter.
This shift doesn’t happen in one moment. It happens through consistent inner work, reflection, spiritual anchoring, and surrounding yourself with people and practices that affirm your goodness.
As GS says, your shame might still whisper. But your truth can speak louder.
Episode 97 Transcription: Why She’s Pissed Off & Turned Off—and How to Fix It | This Masculine Blueprint Is Helping Men End Porn Addiction and Save Their Marriages
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