Create More Intimacy: A Podcast for Men
Oct 2, 2026 · 21 min · 11 segments
Somebody finally told you it wasn't your fault. Stop chasing her. Be more dominant. Don't text back right away. Let her wonder where you are. For a lot of men, this kind of online advice arrives at…
Alisa StoddardHost
I wanna start by taking seriously why this advice found you, because I don't think you're foolish for listening to it.

And some of that is useful, and some of it I say myself on this exact podcast.

But if you've been trying for years and the distance keeps growing, hearing one more voice telling you to try harder starts to feel like being told you are the whole problem.

It gave you a story where you weren't the problem, or at least not in the way you'd been told.

It said the problem was that you'd been too good, too giving, too eager, and that the fix was to take some of that back.

I wanna start by taking seriously why this advice found you, because I don't think you're foolish for listening to it.

And some of that is useful, and some of it I say myself on this exact podcast.

But if you've been trying for years and the distance keeps growing, hearing one more voice telling you to try harder starts to feel like being told you are the whole problem.

It gave you a story where you weren't the problem, or at least not in the way you'd been told.

It said the problem was that you'd been too good, too giving, too eager, and that the fix was to take some of that back.
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