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Do you have a husband who is lazy & unmotivated? Are you looking for ways to help regain some excitement in your marriage and in his day to day. Men can be absolutely amazing. Do you remember how he was when you first started dating? He was just like the man he is today but he had an extra something. An extra spark of life. Do you remember the chivalry that you felt when he would open the car door for you? That is all but gone now but what if I told you that it is possible to bring that man back? What if I told you that it was possible to reignite that spark by taking control of your relationship?
1) Communicate about the problem and agree to work together on a solution.
First and foremost, make sure that he understands the expectations that you have for him. The expectations of what you want from your marriage and make sure that you let him know that he is capable of being that man. It will likely go on deaf ears but it is important that he know what is missing, at least from his perspective. Don’t come at him with an angry tone. Use a tone of compassion and make certain to have some give an take. What can you do to make him pick up after himself? What can you do to help him with the lazy tendencies? Use compassion and make sure that he doesn’t think you are attacking him lest he get defensive or shut down. Remind him that you still love him, remind him of the things in your life that are wonderful such as kids and family. Don’t be overly critical and try to steer clear from specifics, you don’t want this to turn into an argument.
Hopefully the above conversation went well. If not, perhaps try another time with a lighter approach until you get a more compassionate response. Assuming it went well, tell him that you have some ideas that might help give him some extra motivation. Ask if he is interested in hearing some ideas that might bring that spark back. Don’t answer right away, tell him that you will do some research and talk to him about it later. Remember that your husband ultimately wants to please you. A happy wife is truly a happy life and both of you know it. So much of his happiness and confidence is derived from making his partner happy.
You could consider threatening him with the lazy husbands act of 1913 but that old law may not be applicable or effective in today’s day and age. Let’s try a different approach. How about if I told you that there is a pill that will make him subconsciously make him want to make him please you. What if I told you that this pill would also give him a great deal of personal and relationship satisfaction from making you happy. Start the conversation that way, knowing that at his core, he truly does want to make you happy. What I am peddling isn’t a pill or even a tonic, it is something that is tried and true and doesn’t have a long list of chemically adverse side effects. What I am suggesting is orgasm control. If your guy is like mine, he craves physical intimacy and loves sex. If you are like me, you crave emotional intimacy and also love a deeply intimate sexual connection with your partner. Orgasm control is a means to support both of your needs in the relationship. As you discuss orgasm control, he is going to have lots of questions. Does this mean that you are going to withhold sex? Absolutely not! Sex and intimacy may actually increase as you add orgasm control into your relationship. There really isn’t anything for him to worry about, this is designed to ensure that both of your needs are met.
2) Take control of orgasms to reignite his motivation.
If your guy is like most, he masturbates 3-5 times per week. But wait, my guy doesn’t masturbate that much! Yeah, he does. He just doesn’t tell you every time that he takes matters into his own hands. The first step is to put a damper on his self-love because it truly is cheating you both of relationship intimacy. Are you an open minded, modern gal who thinks that his self love doesn’t have an impact on you? Think again! The male orgasm is designed to make him clam up and shut down his ability to be emotionally intimate with you. Ask him to honestly tell you the last time he masturbated, I think you will be very surprised at the frequency. Discuss the hormonal shift that unregulated orgasms can create and the negative relationship symptoms that it may be creating.
Orgasm control has been practiced for thousands of years from taoism to tantra. Taking his orgasms and rationing them back to him prevents him from dulling his emotional side with frequent hits of dopamine. There are two methods, one is the honor system and the other is enforced by using some sort of device. For many men, starting with the honor system is a great way to see the initial effects but most fellas have been masturbating since their teens. Using a device to help them is like weaning them off of a drug that they’ve had access to since adolescence. The device itself can also help take the kink up a notch and keep the excitement level high for both of you. There are many designs of devices and you may go through a few before you find one that fits well. They range from very expensive custom fitted stainless steel devices to inexpensive plastic resin or silicone devices.
With orgasm control, you are in charge of his orgasm and that can take some getting used to. Many men find that they grow to prefer wearing the device as it becomes a subconscious reassurance of your support and a symbol of your love, removing it can feel strange and foreign like removing a wedding ring. This means that you can decide if he gets twenty orgasms per day (ouch!) or twenty orgasms per year. Getting him on a schedule is a great way to get him on board with either the honor system or a device based plan. This is something that you would work through and agree upon together. If you push this on him without the necessary conversation, he is likely to either feel manipulated or find it kinky for a week and become disinterested or resentful. A schedule will allow both of you to know when he is permitted his next orgasm without him constantly pestering you about it. Orgasm control can have negative side effects if you don’t communicate frequently and honestly so it is important that you set aside time to initiate conversations about the positive and negative impact that you are both seeing.
When you determine that the timing is right for an orgasm, you can do it however you want. You can give him permission at the onset of a sexual encounter or perhaps set aside some time for him to pleasure himself while you touch his body.
3) Directing his motivation toward your relationship.
Ok so I’ve got an emotional connection with a lazy husband. Great, what does that get me? Thanks for sticking around this far, I promised a solution and I appreciate you listening to the methods behind my madness. With orgasm control, he will be more concerned with your needs and the needs of your household. A chore list will help him understand his expectations and you can set goals for the week. If goals are met, orgasm happens. If goals aren’t met, orgasms get delayed for days or perhaps until the next weekly opportunity. All of these puzzle pieces are coming together now, right? Your fella probably isn’t a lazy guy, he simply lacks the proper form of motivation. When the dangling carrot of orgasm is used as a means of motivation, your husband will want to please you and seek out new ways of making you smile.
Here are a few goals that we’ve used in our relationship, weight loss, laundry, errands, yard work; heck we’ve even used my orgasms through oral sex as a gauge for earning one of his! For every ten orgasms I have, you get one of your own. One of the goals of orgasm control should be a playful heart. Regardless of age, play is minimized in our society and a playful mindset helps bring us together and enjoy our time spent together. If you play together, you become a team rather than self-serving adversaries.
4) Expect a servant mentality.
At face value, it may seem like he is doing things to earn an orgasm rather than doing things for the sake of your relationship. To that end, you might be initially discouraged because you want him to do these things for you rather than for himself. The interesting thing is that the orgasm control changes his headspace and shifts his mindset into a servant mentality. I use the word servant cautiously as I am not speaking of a submissive leather-clad slave or something from the world of bdsm.
A servant mindset shifts him from seeing you as on object for the purpose of his pleasure and puts you back on the pedestal you were on when he was pursuing you. His listening and empathy will grow and that will make him want to be helpful and more engaged with your relationship and with your family.
Another side effect you will see as he shifts to a servant love or mindset is the disappearance of the sex barter system. The sex barter system is a system where sex is used as a perceived currency. Bartering or bargaining comes from the expectation of sex based upon an anticipated frequency or performance of tasks. Have you ever heard him complain about the frequency of sex when your needs are mismatched? Has he ever expected sex after buying you flowers or perhaps doing some chores? While most men do this without knowing it, this mindset can feel deeply sexist and hurtful to those of us on the receiving end. As he subconsciously accepts that sexual release is not within his control, he will shift to a more compassionate and connected mindset. You will notice that much of his day to day energy is spent subconsciously trying to convince you to have sex with him. It is important that you recognize that this isn’t his fault and that he isn’t doing this to intentionally manipulate you. His hormones are making him pursue sexual release and you are the object that facilitates release. One would think that taking blatant control of his sexuality would amplify this but it doesn’t. In fact, the loss of direct control completely flips the equation.
5) Connect with him on a deeply physical and emotional level.
If he can’t have an orgasm, that means we can’t have sex. Right? Abso-freaking-lutely not. You can have as much sex as you like. In fact, you can have more sex but it will take some getting used to. Many of us have sex with the focus being on the prize or the orgasm at the end of the journey. What if you focus on the journey instead? Orgasms are great but they should be the icing on the cake rather than the cake itself. Men are especially guilty of this and I don’t really know why. The undue focus on orgasm takes the pleasure away from the journey itself. As women, many of us focus our sexual experience on helping our partner get to orgasm rather than allowing ourselves to be selfish and enjoy the act of doing the sexing. This can make sex feel like a chore and make sex something that we do for our partner rather than something that we do with our partner. Focus on the journey, the intimacy and the connection between the two of you. Stop short of his orgasm and take frequent breaks to keep his arousal level from getting too high.
My Kev and I separate his orgasm from our sex and rarely combine the two. This creates a pattern of separation in his mind and sex makes a shift to journey with destination. We may take several journeys without destination before we decide to visit the destination together. This guided approach takes a level of trust and commitment that will deepen the intimacy in your relationship. The first few times that sex ends without orgasm will be confusing and frustrating for him. Support him through this as he learns to adapt his expectations. We find that the device is an excellent tool to redirect his arousal. We keep his device on the night stand and when I am done, a simply loving “now lock it up for me” is enough to end things cleanly and without aggravation. Note that I am not asking, the word now is firm and confident so he knows that a protest will result in consequences such as a longer time until his next orgasm.
Conclusion
This may raise questions about fairness but there are so many facets to the conversation about fairness. Sex shouldn’t be about fairness, it should be about closeness and emotional intimacy. If we invoke the fairness card, we can bring up topics of periods, cramping, hormones, gender discrimination and childbirth that certainly turn play into any sort of argument. Any of those fun topics should be able to steer the conversation away from any sort of fairness debate. Rather than dwelling on negative topics, shift the focus to intimacy and a heightened sense of connection between you and your partner. For some reason, orgasm doesn’t typically have the same debilitating and demotivating impact on women that it does for men.
Orgasm control is widely understood to be a positive thing for men. Many men take it upon themselves to limit or temporarily remove orgasm from their lives to stimulate motivation and boost mental clarity. Check out nofap.com and the nofap subreddit for more information on the sex positive, self-managed approach. Many religious groups promote a more measured approach to sex. If left to his own devices, it can be difficult to initiate and a great amount of willpower to see it through. Using the strength of your relationship, using orgasmic motivation as tool can yield impressive results when you work together. As we grow to understand orgasmic and sexual motivation, orgasm control is becoming more popular.
