You and your wife are having a heated discussion. It's not yelling. We're not we're not fighting over, really. We're just having a very impassioned discussion. And then you just said something you really wished you hadn't said. You took it in a direction that was not needed to be taken. What do you do? Well, we're gonna talk about when and how to use one of the greatest tools with a with your wife, and that is the duo. We're gonna talk about that this week on episode 237 of the relaxed male.
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and more. And today, we're talking about a great tool that you can use. Now in in the game of golf now I'm not a big golfer by any stretch of the imagination, but there is this one little feature or or or gimme if you wanna in in golf that is called the mulligan. And you can what it is is if you could take a swing, you're apparently well, a lot of folks say that you're allowed 1 Mulligan
each game. You just you go off. You go to swing the club. You duff it real bad and you just or you whiff it or whatever, and it's just it just goes out and is gone. And you know you're never gonna find that darn cabal ever again. So what do you do? Well, you can, in in the game of golf, if your friends are up with for it,
have a call a mulligan. Just you just do it again. No no hits, you know, no ding to the, to the scorecard or anything. It's just in, done, gone. Try it again, and may the odds be ever in your favor. But a lot of times, we don't realize we actually have something like that. Now the conditions of it are very much the same. All parties involved when it comes to, like, in a marriage, all parties involved have to be agreed and allow for this mulligan
to take place. Now the mulligan that I'm talking about is called the do over, and it's it it just as it sounds, you're talking about something, and you go into an area, and all of a sudden, you see your wife tense up. She's getting ready to just light into you. And then it dawns on you. You just said something that you probably really don't wanna be saying. So what do you do? Well, you can you can either let it go. Just keep going. Try to talk yourself out of it, and it's not gonna work. 99%
of the time. Now sometimes it will. I was like, oh, I didn't mean to say it that way. I'm sorry that came out. It sounded better in my head than it did in in real life. You know, one of those things. But the do over you essentially, what you're doing is you're just you're stopping conversation mid stride and you're going, woah. You apologize. That did not come out right, or I just realized what I was doing. I just realized what was going on. Can I please have a do over?
That's it. That's all. That's all a do over is. You ask for a do do over and your spouse, your wife can actually go off and say yes. And now we're gonna talk about why. When when do you want is it good to have a do over? Well, it's not just when you'd go off and say, I'm going you know, I'm I'm you never whatever. Whatever. You know? You never have
people over to our house. You never go out and enjoy life. You know you know? When we go into those you nevers, those very defined moments, those types of things where people can re react and and discussions go completely off the rails. Those were all great times. If you can catch it in time. Now if everybody's emotions are just already skyrocketed, they're out and we're, they're just blah, you know, they're just, it becomes a, a free for all yelling match.
A do over probably isn't going to work, but you can always try. You can woah. Woah. Woah. Woah. I let's let's do a 5 by 5, and then let's come back. I I wanna do it. I wanna try this discussion again because I screwed it up. And and you go through it and you and you might be able to get her to to agree. It's like, okay. Fine. I'm gonna go cool down. I'll be back. So when do you have a when is it good to have a do over? Well, it's any time, really.
If you realize you misstepped, you broke the 97% rule, which is 97% rule is 97% of the dumb crap you wanna say, you don't say. If you're wanting to have that, then great. If you do something like that and you say the 97% dumb stuff that you wanna say and that comes pouring out, then, you know, you might just it's something of instant regret. You're like, oh, I really that was dumb. You could stop it. You have that power. Now you also have to allow the power to be given to the wife.
So if she says something and she wants to do a do over, great. When you made a huge misstep and you said well, the and you said something that was incredibly hurtful, Again, you can stop and go, can I have a do over? That didn't yeah. Again, you that didn't come out right. If you're talking and you notice things are getting really heated, it we're just talking about bills and things are getting really heated and really there's a lot of tension building up in the in the in the this room.
And you see where you can diffuse the situation, you can rephrase a couple of the key points you said at the beginning, you might be able to do a time out. Kind of do a do over. This also happens when you are go you find yourself starting to go into your corner and the wife is going into her corner, and those are physical corners or or per you know, just literal or, not literal corners because that's the physical corners.
But, but just the the metaphorical corner, you can, again, stop and go, wait a minute. We're we're we're doing our anxious avoidant thing. We're we're avoiding the conflict. We need to have this discussion. What if we do a do over? Maybe you heard something that was not right, and you're starting to, you know, you're starting to get a little wrapped up. You get and and revved up, and you're starting to get the anger going, you can again, hold up. Let's do a do over on this.
I think we're going down the wrong path. So what it all in all, what a do over is is this just you asking permission to stop, and let's reset. Let's try this again. We got it wrong. We got this discussion completely wrong. Can we try this again? And this is a good thing. It's and it's good for relationships because what this means is that you're, 1, trying. You're showing your wife that you're trying to be a better communicator. You're trying to have more in-depth conversations.
We're not flying off the handle. We're not living in emotional childhood anymore, or at least you aren't. She can. She wants to be in most childhood, and she wants to fly off the handle because you said something that could be perceived as as, as you attacking her, and she wants to attack back. Oh, okay. But you have the power where you don't have to attack back. You don't have to buy into the stories that her mind is telling herself.
You can show your wife every time that you screw up. Oh, that didn't come out right. I am sorry. And that's one of the main things. You want to apologize. You wanna fess out, fess up, and ex and flesh out what it was you did wrong and why you would like a do over. Because, I mean, when you're playing golf game, you're gonna your friends could see that your ball hit the, hit the tree right in front of you and went 50 yards behind you.
So you're my okay. I I I can I get a do over? Can I catch a mulligan on this thing? And when you're with your your spouse and y'all are starting to go into fight flight, and more of the fight or but the fight or freeze sections of y'all's y'all's means of coping with with a stressful situation. It's good if you can stop that and go, woah. Hold up. Hold up. Hold up. This didn't quite go the way I wanted it to go. So let's try this again. When you can say that, when you can do that, things become
a little bit easier. She starts to understand that you're trying your darndest. You're trying with all your might to try to be a better communicator. You're not out to sit there and, and react to everything that's said. You're going to respond and you're gonna reply with thought.
You're not going to react with emotion, which allows for the hard and and conflictual discussions to actually be had, to where y'all can actually get to the meat of the problem so that you and her can find that middle ground that y'all need to have so that you can have a better relationship, so you can have stronger connections, so you can have the the the marriage and the life that you're truly wanting to have.
Yet if you're running around and you're lighting your hair on fire because of whatever, you know, y'all are going to have that problem. Y'all going if y'all are just responding and replying and just just living your life in emotional childhood instead of emotional adulthood, your life you're you're making yourselves a lot more tense. You're you're always looking on out for those unintentional. When you are worried that your your problems are because of somebody else, you're always going to be
on the lookout. You're gonna be tense. That's one of the reasons why I want the relaxed I went with the word relaxed, not the happy male or the fulfilled male. It's the relaxed male because when you are relaxed, you get the fulfillment in life because it's gonna your fulfillment is based upon what you deem fulfilling. You want a good marriage? You can have that good marriage. You being the man of the house allows you to have that good marriage.
Your wife can still fly off the handle if that's what she wants because her emotions are not for you to control. Her emotions are not there for you to manage. You're working you're trying to live 2 people's lives at the same time when you're mayor managing a an emotion. Yet, when you stop trying to manage the emotions and that's why you do the do over. It's you're not managing her emotions. You're trying to better the communication skill.
You're not sitting there going, oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make you mad. Here, let me make it up to you. Let me do a do over. No. No. No. No. No. No. To if you've stepped in the in the pile of, pile of shit, you're going to have it on your shoe already. You've gotta deal with it well after that's happened. The do over is for those times when you have misspoke, and you realize that no matter what you you do from that point forward, you're not going to be able to fix the problem.
So how do you resay to let her know that you're trying to make sure that the life is going smoother? You're not managing the emotion. You're not doing it to, I'm sorry I pissed you off. I I pair apparently, I made you mad. I apparently when you're going off and trying to blame her for her emotional being, which, I mean, yeah, it's her emotional being, but you're you're blaming her because you're feeling uncomfortable. When you're feeling the the the stress of her emotional being, that's on
you. So you can't blame her for the fact that you're, you know, you're feeling anxious or you're feeling powerless or you're feeling shamed or whatever it is you're feeling. Those are all your choices. You get to have those emotions.
Don't dodge those emotions. Just allow themselves those emotions to be felt. But your when you're doing a do over, you're doing it so that you have a better means of communicating, not to emotionally manipulate the situation because you don't like how she's looking at you, which I mean, as I keep talking to this, it almost doesn't make sense. Well, when do you use it then? Well, you use it when you realize you've said something that you did not mean.
When you are trying to make, trying to not keep her from feeling certain emotions, but to help make, not even make her keep wanting to say maker and that's, you can't make her do anything because, yeah, I'm I still I still struggle with if you wanna say say old language, I guess that would almost be it because our we want we'd us guys do wanna have our our wives happy. But when we try to force her into a particular
frame of mind, it never is gonna work. Well, you need to stop being angry about it. That's gonna piss her off even more. Right? So when you are having a discussion and you see that you have verbally misstepped, this is so that you again, like, kinda like with what I just did a moment ago whenever I realized I was the way I was using the words weren't quite the words that I wanted to use.
I could, essentially, I did a, but I don't have anybody to actually ask since I'm talking just to you, and it's a delayed reaction. But it would've been that would've been a good time to do a do over. Been like, I just used a whole bunch of words I didn't wanna use. Can I get a do over? And from there, rephrase the word. Rephrase that's what the number one time you're gonna use a do over is when you use a word that's not something you wanna actually use.
It's not a a means of providing any type of benefit to the to the relationship, to the conversation that hand. And those times where you lashed out because you felt nervous. You felt anxious. You felt scared or or what. And you lashed out, and you said a word some words that you really don't truly believe. Okay. Woah. I apologize. I said some stuff I did not actually believe. I wanted to I was feeling hurt, and I wanted to lash out. And I apologize.
Can I please have a do over on that? Can I try that again and say it the way I truly meant to say it? A lot of times, yeah, our wife will be okay with that, especially if she notices that you are honestly trying. If you're just trying to do it just to manipulate, she'll be, no. No. No. No. We're not playing that freaking game. So you have to use the do over in a true, open, and honest way. Apologize for what it is you did. Express why you are sorrowful for what happened. If you don't,
why would she believe you? Oh, I did. I did. I I didn't mean to say it that way. Well, you said it, so apparently you meant it. No. No. Why did you not mean it? Express what it is that you why your misstep is considered a misstep to you. When you do that, you're going to help your wife understand that you're trying more. You're trying to make sure this relationship is better. And it does. It takes that time.
So next time you have a discussion, next time you have a argument that is kinda heating up or you said something or it something came out funny or something came out a little little wonkier and you wanted to say, b, you stop it. Stop the conversation right there. Just hold up. That came out and sounded a lot worse than I actually intended it for intended for it to be. Can I get a do over on that? And when you say ask that, if she says yes, sweet. If she says no, okay,
then set on it. Just be with the fact that she said no and just try to muddle for it. So, guys, with that, I wanna say thank you. This is a little bit shorter one this week. And, yeah, we kinda missed last week's because, well, I I'm gonna be diving into that one next week's, episode because, well, it's it's actually something very important that guys need to understand. And, guys, I hope that y'all will be able to take what next week's in in 2,
what is it? 238, because you need to know what you stand for. But also what happens when you fall from that stand. So, guys,
we're gonna be talking about having more discussions about guys and how we navigate our life, how we navigate our marriages and our relationships and all that. So, guys, with that, I wanna say thank you very much for listening. If y'all enjoyed anything that was said in the show, please reach out to your to your brothers in in the rest of the in the rest of your your community, and let them know that there's this show out there, this relaxed male that's helping men
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