Latest / The Dr. Psych Mom Show with clinical psychologist Dr. Samantha Rodman Whiten / The Hotter You Think Your Wife Is, The Hotter She Gets
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- 0:05Hi everybody, and welcome to this episode of the doctor psych
- 0:08mom show. Today, we're going to be talking
- 0:11about how the hotter, you think. Your wife is the hotter.
- 0:14She gets in a virtuous cycle of increasing hotness.
- 0:18We will talk about what I mean by that.
- 0:21It is not a magic trick at all is something that I have
- 0:24observed in the natural environment throughout all of
- 0:28my, my career working with couples and just generally in
- 0:30the world before that, of course, do subscribe the most
- 0:35It's, I've talked about the most recent one.
- 0:36How about the upcoming one? The upcoming one is going to be
- 0:39about how your wife didn't marry you when you were a big swinging
- 0:42dick. So for a lot of guys who got
- 0:44more successful in or around midlife frequently, there are
- 0:47personality changes that are concomitant with that Financial
- 0:52change and general achievement recognition.
- 0:56That your wife may not be so keen on because she didn't after
- 0:59all marry you when you were super successful.
- 1:02So you got to think that, you know, there are things She liked
- 1:05about you before the may not be coming out as much at this stage
- 1:09and when guys can understand this it frequently helps them
- 1:12make sense of a lot of weird and confusing things such as that
- 1:17the more everybody else seems to admire them the less their wife
- 1:20does. All right.
- 1:21Moving on to today's topic so it is kind of an interesting
- 1:27phenomenon that the women that seem to have a.
- 1:31Here's here's an on Trend, this probably not even on Trends
- 1:34anymore. It was Ali, I tried like five
- 1:36years ago. Women that seem to have a glow
- 1:38up in a mid life or in their 30s or whatever, you know, meaning
- 1:44that they get hotter, they seem to look more attractive than
- 1:48they did when they were younger. They always seem to have a door
- 1:51and husbands and maybe if you're a guy, then you could be like oh
- 1:55well you know of course they do because the guy adores them
- 1:59cause they're so hot cause they've got more hot probably
- 2:03when they were less hot guy liked him a little less.
- 2:06Oh, contraire mon frere, it is frequently quite different than
- 2:09that frequently. These women are the women who
- 2:12just like everybody else had kind of a little down.
- 2:15Swing it attractiveness when they were, like, nursing
- 2:18pregnant had multiple children. Etc.
- 2:22Really doesn't number two, you with the guy I always thought
- 2:26they were super hot. He's like always thought they
- 2:28were hot. He thought she was hot before
- 2:30kids. You think she's hot after kids.
- 2:32He think she just really really hot which speaks to of Of
- 2:35course, my podcast and post men need to think their wives are
- 2:39really hot for things to work in, so he's like always adoring.
- 2:42So then when it comes to a time where she has more, you know,
- 2:47bandwidth more hours in the day Etc because the kids aren't so
- 2:51little anymore. You know, what does she do?
- 2:53Sometimes she gets new clothes. Sometimes she gets to the gym
- 2:58when she didn't used to be able to go.
- 2:59Sometimes she gets new makeup or she decides to do something
- 3:02totally different to her hair, or she decides that she's going
- 3:05to dress. Sexier now that she's older and
- 3:07more confident and whatever. But the thing that also makes
- 3:10her more confident is that the guy has always been really
- 3:13adoring, you know, and this also can happen to women after they
- 3:16divorced, but that's because they're getting a lot of
- 3:18positive feedback on The Dating market.
- 3:20So you know, like a lot of women there in these marriages kind of
- 3:24the guy doesn't really give a shit you know and don't think
- 3:27that means he doesn't want to have sex because that's like you
- 3:29know, only 20% of guys are going to be the lower libido partner,
- 3:33which is not nothing, but it is Only there's four out of five
- 3:36then who are the higher libido partner so they're usually
- 3:39pursuing the wives for sex. That's not a thing but they're
- 3:42just not being very adoring, they don't say wow.
- 3:46When she comes in the room, they don't talk about how hot she is.
- 3:49They don't have any different reaction when she's in yoga
- 3:53pants or when she's dressed up. And now I did do a whole podcast
- 3:57on why women want you to have preferences in how they look,
- 4:00and I'll weave that in a second because you may be like, but I'm
- 4:04supposed to think that she's Hat when she's in yoga pants and
- 4:07when she is you know, dress up for black tie event.
- 4:09No you're not you're not you're just not but I'll talk about
- 4:15that in a second. But anyway, these women they
- 4:18have the confidence of knowing that their husbands think that
- 4:22they're gorgeous like all the time.
- 4:24So then they can take these kind of risks to go out on a limb and
- 4:28dress different or or dress more trendy, or dress more sexy or
- 4:33you know, try to change their A body or their hair or something
- 4:37because they know that the guys going to think that they look
- 4:39hot no matter what you need to have is the same thing with
- 4:42parenting. You know, if your kid doesn't
- 4:44think that you respect them and you love them, no matter what,
- 4:47they are not going to achieve and be their best self, you
- 4:50know. Like it's not like a kid thinks,
- 4:52well mommy doesn't love me. So what I'm going to do is I'm
- 4:55going to be like really, really good, so that Mommy loves me,
- 4:58some kids may be think like that, but the majority of kids
- 5:02basically especially by adolescents get to Fuck you,
- 5:06mommy, you know, you never loved me.
- 5:08Well now let's really see what a bad kid is, and they external
- 5:12eyes and they start acting out and doing all sorts of shit
- 5:14because they don't feel like the mom really gives a shit anyway.
- 5:17You know, and, you know, and unfortunately this is something
- 5:21that I frequently see with adult children of dysfunctional
- 5:23families that they had a very rebellious phase that isn't
- 5:26Everybody. By the way, all teens, don't you
- 5:28know completely lose their shit and when they do, it's
- 5:32frequently because there's animosity with a parent,
- 5:34obviously doesn't have to be mommy for Equally boys, it's
- 5:36Daddy with girls, it's Mommy but anyway the less accepted and
- 5:39loved a child. Feels for who they are at their
- 5:41core. The less they're going to try
- 5:43because the more hopeless and resentful they feel so they're
- 5:46specifically not going to do what the parent likes.
- 5:49If you think your parents only going to love you, if you get
- 5:51good grades at some point, many people will say fuck you to the
- 5:54good grades because of just resentment.
- 5:57They're like, yeah, that's the only thing that's important to
- 5:59you will. Then I won't give it to you.
- 6:01I won't give you a kid that does well, right?
- 6:04So it's very much the same. Analogy and I frequently
- 6:06discussed it's extremely important to get outside your
- 6:09comfort zone and understand the profound overlap between the
- 6:13attachment between a parent, a child and that between adults in
- 6:17a romantic relationship. So when you're young, your
- 6:20attachment figure is the parent. And when you're older, it's the
- 6:22intimate partner. And when people tell themselves,
- 6:25there's no overlap between those relationships or there shouldn't
- 6:28be. They usually have pretty bad
- 6:30marriages because caretaking is an integral part bi-directional.
- 6:35So We'll take turns, but it's an integral part of fulfilling
- 6:39adult relationship. That's what everybody really
- 6:41wants on a, in a core way. Is that unconditional love that
- 6:45apparent. Hopefully gave them.
- 6:46And maybe if not, then that they never got from a parent, right?
- 6:51So and you could listen to all my stuff on repair and thing and
- 6:54whatever else about that and basically everything on
- 6:56attachment Theory. But so when a woman feels that
- 7:01she has to like maybe only be a certain way for the husband to
- 7:04find her. I give, like, let's say she has
- 7:06to be skinny. Do you think that then she
- 7:08becomes skinny? Fuck no, not it.
- 7:10Not unless she has like literally zero confidence.
- 7:13Actually, it can go either way even if she has zero confidence
- 7:17because she could get very hopeless.
- 7:19And basically feel like there's just no way that she could ever
- 7:23match what he want. Or she could do what I said the
- 7:25teenager does and say fuck you. If that's all that you care
- 7:28about then I'm going to do the opposite and basically if the
- 7:33woman has a little more confidence then she's like screw
- 7:36you. I don't want to be with a man
- 7:37who would only like me if I was skinny for example, right?
- 7:40Or if I only dress a certain way or if I have my hair a certain
- 7:43way or whatever. But then you may say, what about
- 7:46the idea that men are supposed to have preferences, which you
- 7:49alluded to even just earlier in this episode in which you have
- 7:52an entire episode on. And I know it because I
- 7:55hypothetical listener, I'm an avid rabid doctor.
- 7:59Psych, mom, show fan. So yeah, making a preferences.
- 8:04They kept their Special thing that they like, but the default
- 8:08person also has to be good, you know?
- 8:11Just like the parenting analogy. Sure.
- 8:13You could love it if your kid gets a pluses, but if they come
- 8:17home with all apps, you can not love them.
- 8:19You know what I mean? So like, yeah, like, if you
- 8:21could like it better, if your wife dropped 20 pounds and women
- 8:24like it better, if the husband drop 20 pounds, unless, of
- 8:27course, we're talking about a situation where there were
- 8:28already too skinny, or whatever, I mean, men and women are
- 8:31equally shallow in many ways. And I discussed this frequently
- 8:34on my My blog and everywhere else, but you got to love them
- 8:38and find them attractive. Anyway, if you don't, then
- 8:42they're not going to try. They're like actually going to
- 8:44try less because they feel so resentful and hopeless.
- 8:49So the women that actually seem to want and and this by the way,
- 8:53is not all about losing weight or any such thing.
- 8:56The number one thing that I see that men really want, because
- 9:00most men do think that their wives are attractive.
- 9:02He's for the wife, to dress and act, Sexier and more confident.
- 9:07So they think that she's hot, that's fine.
- 9:09But what really would wow them is for her to dress up for them,
- 9:14to try to be more attractive for them in kind of the same sort of
- 9:17way as she did when they were dating, although possibly quite
- 9:20different clothes, different, you know, style, whatever some
- 9:23men, like the same style. But the idea is that she's
- 9:26trying to be even like like sexier for them specifically.
- 9:32And of course men like that women like it to the Man dresses
- 9:35up. For a date with this is a big
- 9:36thing. I talk about a couples
- 9:37counseling. Get a haircut go get some
- 9:39clothes that she likes. Let her pick out the clothes,
- 9:42even better. Women, hate sloppy, right.
- 9:44So men, like sexy, most many men like women to wear, whatever it
- 9:49is that they find sexy for some men.
- 9:51It is the yoga pants. Look for some, and it's dressing
- 9:54up in a short skirt, whatever the case may be lingerie is a
- 9:56big one, whatever, but she's never going to do that unless
- 9:59you already think she's hot and your adoring if you already
- 10:03think that she walks on water then.
- 10:05Idea that like she could like just totally knock your socks
- 10:09off by dressing in his other specific way that you
- 10:13specifically. Like she's going to want to do
- 10:14that. Who wouldn't to get an awesome
- 10:17reaction to get like you to fall down because you're like so
- 10:21amazed at how she looks, you know, Tick-Tock does this
- 10:24awesome? There was a funny, take that guy
- 10:27showed my husband the other day about the woman.
- 10:30Got her nails done. You know, obviously this is
- 10:33acted out and And, and the caption was how your wife
- 10:37expects, you or wants you to act when she gets her nails done?
- 10:40It's a woman comes in. These people are like in their
- 10:43twenties. Obviously, and this is when
- 10:45women are more obvious about this and and whatever.
- 10:48And as they get older, they care less what you think.
- 10:51But also they don't want to care as much.
- 10:54It doesn't feel as as good anymore to put yourself out
- 10:58there so mostly you know in their 20s, people will still be
- 11:02very obvious about this stuff so she comes over.
- 11:05Act it out with her manicure. And she shows it to him at his
- 11:09like he falls down, you know, on the floor.
- 11:13And he's like, you know, what did he gets up and he shakes it
- 11:15off to you runs outside to like, hey, somebody come look at
- 11:20harmonica already finds this guy off the street and drags him
- 11:23into the house. They're both looking at it and
- 11:25marveling at it, right? And so it was funny, Tick-Tock
- 11:28there's many that are in that vein.
- 11:30And the point of it was that women generally want and be
- 11:35enthusiastic response to something that they cry with
- 11:38their looks. And I know you're thinking, I
- 11:41don't give a shit if she even has fingers at all.
- 11:44Never mind what color finger nails are painted.
- 11:46You know like it's not anything to me but if you don't act nice
- 11:51about her attempt and you're not loving and very supportive and
- 11:56enthusiastic about her attempts to get outside her comfort zone
- 11:59with her looks in anyway and try something new.
- 12:02And this woman in the Tic Tac had like a manicure.
- 12:04Was she Like all the nails a different color which is a trend
- 12:07and he doesn't give a shit. He probably thinks it looks like
- 12:10an Easter egg basket how her nails were painted but if he
- 12:14obviously in an equivalent that was actually in reality not
- 12:17something acted. But if this man was like, oh my
- 12:19God, this is so cute. You always, you know, dressed so
- 12:22nice. Like that's so great.
- 12:24You're always so, well, put together whatever the fuck he
- 12:27could say, whatever he could think to say about it, she's
- 12:30gonna smile and she's going to feel loved.
- 12:32And then, you know what? She's probably gonna go out on a
- 12:34limb. I'm in a different way that he
- 12:36may really like something that he may have even said.
- 12:39So it sounds so crazy to a man I understand what sound like I
- 12:43lost my mind but if your woman just had a manicure pedicure,
- 12:47she's like 10,000 times more likely to dress up in lingerie
- 12:51drawer. Like what, what the fuck does
- 12:53that have to do with anything the body parts that I see?
- 12:55Lingerie are not her. Fingers and toes.
- 12:58It doesn't matter. She feels confident.
- 13:00She feels well put together. She feels hot.
- 13:04She feels sexy. So she's gonna do something
- 13:06else. So if you are positive and this
- 13:09is just how you reward any Behavior, really?
- 13:12It's, you know, a proxy successive approximations to the
- 13:15mean to the desired behavior is what it's called in Behavior
- 13:19Theory, right? So when you're training a dog,
- 13:22you know, you want the dog to jump in the air?
- 13:25Will you don't only reward that I jump in the air?
- 13:28How the hell is a dog? In a note to do that the dog
- 13:31sits up. You give it a tree when the dog
- 13:33puts one hand in the air. You give it a tree.
- 13:35Maybe it moves its whole body, you give it a treat.
- 13:37Finally finally it's jumping, right?
- 13:39So it's the same kind of thing here.
- 13:41When your wife at all gets outside her comfort zone, be
- 13:44very, very appreciative. Even if you think it has
- 13:46absolutely nothing to do with our looks positive for you at
- 13:49all, because you could give a shit about her nails, or her
- 13:52hair or whatever. The case may be fine.
- 13:56Now, you may say, but what about, if all of her things are
- 13:59that she now realizes that she's given, she's the patriarchy was
- 14:05Can her do her hair. The patriarchy was making her do
- 14:08her nails. The patriarchy was making her
- 14:10wear, underwire bras, and heels. So, and songs and whatever.
- 14:14And now she's going to only wear clothes that look like, you
- 14:18know, we're in some utopian futuristic, you know, movie
- 14:24about like a planet, where everybody is like a gender, you
- 14:27know, this is a good point, right?
- 14:29And it's something that, you know, a lot of people grapple
- 14:32with is that the wife has repudiated the eye.
- 14:35Ideals of what the man considered mutually agreed upon,
- 14:40you know, feminine, you know, signifiers, right.
- 14:45So he thought the both of them liked her too.
- 14:47You know, dye her hair and be blond and whatever.
- 14:51But it turns out that she says, I only like that because and she
- 14:55rewrites history. As many people do when they feel
- 14:57differently, her estrogen tanks and whatever.
- 14:59And she says, you know what, I never fucking like doing that
- 15:01which, of course, going to the hair salon is you know, hell on
- 15:04Earth. I He did anybody, who likes to
- 15:07get shit done hate sitting at the day at the hair salon but
- 15:10now she's like, you know, I never liked it, which is
- 15:12probably half, right? Half, not right.
- 15:14But now she doesn't like it. That's for sure.
- 15:16Agreed upon well within the constraints of how your marriage
- 15:21is. Otherwise you may have more or
- 15:23less leeway to say something about this you and if you have
- 15:26always been loving and affirming and positive and knocked, and
- 15:31your socks are knocked off by her attempt to change, then you
- 15:35Know what you could come forward and be like, okay, you know,
- 15:38sweetheart, I love you. No matter what, obviously I
- 15:41really love the blond hair though that's so hot.
- 15:44That's like some of my, you know.
- 15:45Best memories are looking at you with your blond hair.
- 15:48I remember this dress, you wore. I remember this.
- 15:51I remember that. I know you're not as into it but
- 15:53like you know, for what it's worth.
- 15:54If you ever decide to go back, it's like I think it's super
- 15:58hot, you know, like that, that shows I love you.
- 16:02I love you unconditionally. I also have this preference and
- 16:05I am going to be wowed, if you do it, many women that I work
- 16:09with, in counseling couples, counseling response, so much
- 16:12better. Ironically, if the guy posit
- 16:15something as a fetish almost literally closer to a fetish,
- 16:19then, of course, you should do this to go up to Baseline.
- 16:23You would think but my wife hates sex.
- 16:25So, wouldn't you hate a fetish. You know what, everybody likes
- 16:28to think of themselves as open-minded, you know, your wife
- 16:30does to you probably not as open-minded as you think yet.
- 16:33You would be very complimented if I I said that you were so
- 16:36people like to be open-minded. So if you're like, if, if you
- 16:39were like, man, I just love blond hair and it's like so hot
- 16:43to me and, like, whatever whatever.
- 16:45And it's like, you know, I like seeing you in bed with your
- 16:47blond hair, whatever, you know, when you course, you smart
- 16:51enough to insert anything that you like in this sentence,
- 16:55right? Blond hair that broad underwear,
- 16:58whatever. Then it's like she thinks we'll.
- 17:02All right, he likes this thing. I don't like, This thing as
- 17:05much. Maybe I'll do this thing for
- 17:08him. I'm not gonna do it though.
- 17:10If he tells me, basically, why are you doing that?
- 17:12It's like, you're acting older than you are.
- 17:15That is a character assassination value judgment.
- 17:18Sounds like an asshole. She's gonna think he is part of
- 17:21the fucking patriarchy, and that's going to go nowhere fast.
- 17:24And I've seen it, go nowhere fast.
- 17:25But if he uniquely says that, she is beautiful and even more
- 17:32impressive and amazing in this. Pacific outfit with this
- 17:36specific hair. Doing this specific thing, women
- 17:39are much more open to that because it shows that there is a
- 17:42world in which they become like an, A plus plus, plus wife
- 17:45versus one in which he just doesn't think of them as going
- 17:49into an early grave. You know, I mean, so it's like
- 17:51quite a big difference. So if you want to think about
- 17:55this, utilize it for, you know, the sake of good both parts, so
- 18:00be more open about what you like, but don't do that, unless
- 18:03you have started to be overall. All a fuckload more
- 18:06complimentary like every time she comes down in the morning,
- 18:10you say how beautiful she looks. If you cannot do that, if it's
- 18:14literally, you can't do it. I have a podcast about a guy who
- 18:17said he just couldn't call his wife.
- 18:19Beautiful. Because she was overweight, it's
- 18:20like, early and my podcast and season one, you should look
- 18:22about it. It probably has the word
- 18:24beautiful in the titles. If you search and Spotify
- 18:27doctors like Mom show, beautiful, but you'll hear what
- 18:31I think about that. But if you really so, not
- 18:34attracted to your wife, That all she could ever do at this
- 18:37juncture, is try to get up to Baseline.
- 18:38Well, then she's picking up on that and she is like the unloved
- 18:42child that I had analogously earlier, not gonna do shit for
- 18:46you, you know? So at that point, if it's really
- 18:49at the point, we were completely out of any sort of physical love
- 18:53with your wife, you got to go to therapy and think about your
- 18:55next steps, because she's picking up on it.
- 18:57And her self-esteem is going worse, and worse and worse.
- 19:00Like a vicious cycle rather than The Virtuous cycle of.
- 19:03Oh my God, my husband thinks. I'm so hot.
- 19:05Wouldn't he think I was even hotter in this low cut shirt,
- 19:07teehee. I'm gonna try this new fun
- 19:10thing. You know, 40s my year, you know,
- 19:13how women are so looking for real.
- 19:16Like that is like, literally what I hear is like 40 skin be
- 19:20my year, I'm gonna go outside my comfort zone, I'm going like I'm
- 19:23wearing new stuff, that's great, awesome.
- 19:26Like all of us have thought that you know and like if you already
- 19:30have a husband that thinks that you're hot, then you want to try
- 19:32anything like you'll do by the way.
- 19:35Like the number one search or one of the number one searches
- 19:37on PornHub, is hot wife. So a lot of guys secretly or not
- 19:42secretly, have the fantasy that other men would have sex with or
- 19:45at the very least want to have sex with their wives.
- 19:48So go in and out looking, super hot on his arm is a fantasy that
- 19:53many men have and some like to think about things going beyond
- 19:56that and some don't. But I mean you know, if that was
- 19:59the only more soul that you got from this podcast, it's worth
- 20:02the free price of admission anyway.
- 20:05So, yeah. So it's not abnormal for your
- 20:08husband's. Want you to look hot and it's
- 20:09not abnormal for women to want to try to look sexier as they
- 20:12get older, within the context of an already loving affirming
- 20:18confidence producing relationship, you know.
- 20:22And if you're like, yeah, right. There's a man that complement
- 20:24their wives every day. Fuck.
- 20:26Yes. There are.
- 20:26There totally are. And they're like too busy
- 20:29getting laid to, like, talk to you about the details of their
- 20:33marriage, but their most certainly, We are men that do
- 20:36that. They have wives who feel very
- 20:38secure and who are much more willing to try new outfit and do
- 20:42this and do that. So, if you are a man and on
- 20:44Facebook, you see some of your cohort of women that you used to
- 20:48know and whatever and they're dressed in like a sexy mini
- 20:51dress in your life. Why doesn't my wife dressed like
- 20:53that my wife so fucking annoying up?
- 20:55Stick-in-the-mud think it think about it differently?
- 20:58Think do I make my wife want to put herself out there have the
- 21:02courage to put herself out there in Facebook because no matter
- 21:05What anybody says I'm going to be drooling over it.
- 21:07If not if I'm not that kind of unconditionally loving and
- 21:10supportive guy, maybe the woman I'm seeing on Facebook, has one
- 21:14of those behind the scene. And that's why she's willing to
- 21:16act hot because no matter what the hell she does, she's just
- 21:19going from an A, to an, A plus, plus plus rather, than, from a
- 21:22c-minus to maybe a b, which in that case, fuck the be, who
- 21:26cares day to see - all right. Hopefully, this was interesting
- 21:30and possibly even entertaining as I hope for all of these
- 21:34podcasts. And I'll talk Talk to you soon.
- 21:35Bye bye.