Ep 39: How to Help Your Husband With His Emotions During the Crisis

Couples everywhere are having to deal with financial strains, upended routines, extra parenting responsibilities, new expectations of one another, and worrisome health scares. Whether a husband is sheltering-in, or on the front lines, employed, or suddenly unemployed, there’s a good chance that his wife’s most tangible and immediate source of stress is her concern about how the global crisis is impacting her man directly. In this episode of the WifeSavers Podcast, How to Help Your Husband With His Emotions During the Crisis, multi-award-winning marriage author and educator, Ramona Zabriskie, and her husband of 40+ years, Dale, delve into brain science and biology to understand how today’s atmosphere of intense anxiety may be affecting men, what a concerned partner can do alleviate her man’s tension, and the ways intelligent, proactive engagement between husband and wife mitigates negative repercussions on the family. THROW ME A WIFESAVER: “How do I help my husband right now? He seems full of anxiety with the COVID crisis. I worry about what he is feeling inside as he tries to be strong for others, and I worry that the balance of positive to negative in our interactions is tipping in the wrong direction.” Key points in this podcast: What a wife may be feeling as a result of a husband’s behaviors under stress Why the fallout from the global pandemic is hitting him so hard How to interpret the “male mask” Specific ways in which men deal with emotion differently than women Why his emotional and problem-solving style can be as valid and as valued as hers Seven approaches to gently drawing out her man’s inner thoughts and feelings How to optimally treat his feelings once revealed so as to encourage future sharing Why a woman’s self-care is key to her partner’s mental health and stability Related episodes: Don’t Let a Crisis Sink Your Marriage Dealing With Your Spouse’s Depression Positively When He’s Overwhelmed With Family Life Seeing Eye to Eye: What To Do When You Don’t