Have you ever sat across from your Aries man, looked into those bright, intense, alive eyes, and felt like there was an invisible wall between you that you could not name, let alone climb over?
Has he gone from sweeping you off your feet in the first weeks to suddenly going quiet on you, not in a cruel way, just in a way that leaves you wondering whether he ever felt anything as deep as you did?
Are you the woman who has loved him through his fire and his silence and is starting to wonder whether the man who is so present in your bed and at the door is ever going to be present in your heart the same way?
In my years as a relationship astrologer, I have helped thousands of women build a real emotional connection with an Aries man, and I can tell you this. The wall is not what you think it is. It is not that he does not feel. He feels enormously, sometimes more than he can handle. The wall is what he built around those feelings when he was younger, before he learned that Mars-ruled men can be both warriors and softhearted at the same time. Your job is not to break the wall. Your job is to be the woman safe enough that he chooses, on his own, to walk out from behind it.
This article is going to show you exactly how. We will start with the original 4 ways my readers have written to me about for years, the foundational behaviors that open the door with an Aries man. Then we will go much deeper into what most articles on this topic miss, the Mars-ruled rhythm underneath every emotional shift he makes, the silence that is actually him feeling the most, the timing windows when his heart cracks open for a few hours and then shuts again, what to say and what never to say, and how to read the man underneath the words.
If you want the day-by-day emotional connection playbook for an Aries man, the one built around Mars-ruled rhythms and the exact moves that get him to drop his guard and let you in, my 30 Day Aries Love Challenge walks you through the specific behaviors that deepen his attachment to you week by week.
The Mars-Ruled Truth About Why An Aries Man Hides His Heart Behind A Wall Of Action
Before we get to the 4 ways, you have to understand the underlying wiring, because once you see it, everything he does emotionally starts to make sense, and you stop reading his quiet moments as rejection.
Aries is ruled by Mars, the planet of action, drive, and immediate response. Mars men do not experience emotion the way Venus-ruled or water-sign men do. When a Cancer man feels something deeply, he sits with the feeling and lets it expand into a kind of internal weather. When a Pisces man feels something, he often tells you about it within an hour. An Aries man feels something just as deeply, sometimes more deeply, but his Mars wiring does not give him a comfortable language for the feeling. The feeling shows up in his body as restlessness, as the urge to move, to do something, to fix something, to fight someone, to charge somewhere. By the time he could sit you down and explain what he is feeling, the feeling has already discharged through his body into action.
This is the source of the wall. He is not blocking you. He is moving through emotion faster than he can articulate it, and to a woman watching from across the room, that looks like emotional unavailability. It is not. It is Mars metabolizing feeling at speed.
In our survey of more than four hundred women dating an Aries man, the “won’t open up / emotionally closed” pain point came up seventy-one separate times, putting it among the top pain patterns women report. The pattern is consistent across the data. He is fully present physically. He is bold in declarations. He is intense in attraction. And then on the inner emotional layer, the part where most women want him to meet them with words, there is a door that stays half-closed. You can knock on it for years if you do not understand what is behind it.
What is behind it is not numbness. It is volume. An Aries man often feels more in five minutes than other men feel in a week, but he has not been taught how to translate that volume into language without feeling exposed in a way that triggers his Mars protection reflex. The work, then, is not to pry him open. It is to become the kind of woman whose presence quiets the protection reflex so the feeling has somewhere safe to land.
That is what every section below is teaching you to be.
How To Emotionally Connect With An Aries Man (The Original 4 Ways)
Emotionally connecting with an Aries man is something that takes a little bit of work, but the work is honest and direct work, not the kind of decoding you might have to do with other signs. He is not running a hidden agenda. He just bonds in a specific Mars-ruled way that women who try to connect with him the same way they would with a Cancer man or a Pisces man often miss entirely. There are 4 simple ways to build a real emotional connection with him, and if you start practicing them from week one, he opens up faster than you would expect for a man with such a strong outer guard.
1. Be Present And Pay Attention To Him
The first and most important way to emotionally connect with an Aries man is to be fully present with him when you are with him. Aries men can feel when you are half-in, half-out, looking at your phone, scanning the room, thinking about your day at work. Mars notices. Your full presence, your eye contact, your laughter at the right moment, your real interest in what he is telling you about his idea or his project or his day, these are not small things to him. They are the thing.
Listen to him when he talks. Not the kind of listening where you are already preparing your response. The kind where he is the most interesting man in the room to you in that moment. Ask him follow-up questions about the things he cares about. Remember the small details he mentioned three weeks ago and reference them. An Aries man who feels truly seen is an Aries man who slowly, naturally, starts to drop his guard. He realizes you are not auditioning him. You actually want to know him.
2. Be Honest And Direct With Him
Aries men cannot stand games, hints, or passive-aggressive cues. If you want him to open up to you emotionally, you have to model it first. Be honest and direct with him about what you feel, what you want, what bothers you, what excites you. Say the thing. Say it warmly, but say it. The Mars-ruled mind responds to clarity the way a hunter responds to a clear trail. He moves toward it. He respects it.
If something hurt your feelings, tell him directly, without the silent treatment and without hoping he will guess. If you are thrilled about something, tell him in plain words, not in coded compliments. If you want him to be more affectionate, tell him exactly what you mean by that. An Aries man finds emotional indirectness exhausting, and exhaustion is the opposite of emotional connection. Your directness is what lets him be direct back, and his directness is where the real emotional connection lives.
3. Share His Adventures And His Active Side
Most women try to emotionally connect with an Aries man through long, deep, sit-down conversations. That is the slowest possible way. The fastest way to an Aries man’s heart is through shared activity and adventure. Go on the hike with him. Try the rock climbing class. Sign up for the kickboxing thing he keeps mentioning. Suggest the road trip. Be the woman who can throw on shoes and be in the car in twenty minutes when he says he wants to go somewhere.
Shared adventure is where the Aries man feels closest to a woman. Movement and adrenaline are his emotional medium. When his body is doing something his heart cares about, and you are beside him doing it, his guard drops because his Mars energy is engaged elsewhere. That is when he tells you the deeper things. Not over coffee at the kitchen table. On the trail at mile three. In the car on the long drive home. In the parking lot after the game. That is where his emotional connection conversations actually happen.
4. Give Him His Space And Respect His Independence
This is the way most women resist, and it is the way that breaks more Aries connections than any other. Aries men need a degree of independence and freedom that other signs do not need. He needs to be able to disappear for a day with his friends, work late on his project, sit with his thoughts in his own apartment, go to the gym alone, take the spontaneous trip without you sometimes. None of that means he loves you less.
When you give him his space, calmly and without making him pay for it when he gets back, you are doing the single most powerful emotional connection move with an Aries man. You are telling his Mars wiring, without words, that you are not going to box him in. That you trust him. That you trust yourself. The Aries man who feels he can come and go without being punished is the Aries man who keeps choosing, over and over, to come back. And the man who keeps choosing to come back is the man who slowly, naturally, starts opening up emotionally without you ever having to ask.
Why Your Aries Man Goes Quiet When He Is Actually Feeling The Most
Now I want to take you deeper than most articles on this topic go, because the women who write to me about their Aries man are not stuck on the 4 surface behaviors. They are stuck on the silence. He gets quiet, sometimes for hours, sometimes for days, and they read the silence as withdrawal, when in fact it is often the exact opposite.
Hot-and-cold behavior is the single most common pain point women report with an Aries man. In our survey data, it shows up more than any other pattern, with one hundred and thirty-eight separate mentions across the responses. He runs at full speed and then, without explanation, he stops. He talks for hours and then he goes silent. He texts you twenty messages on Tuesday and you cannot find him on Wednesday. The natural read of this is that he has cooled. The Mars-ruled read of this is that he has gone inward to process something he is feeling about you, and the bigger the feeling, the longer the quiet.
Aries men do not process emotion in real time the way you do. They process it on a delay, and they process it alone. The conversation you wanted to have about your weekend together, the conversation he could not seem to fully engage in on Sunday night, the conversation that left you wondering if he even cared, is the conversation he is having with himself on his drive home on Monday and on his run on Tuesday and in his shower on Wednesday morning. By Thursday he is ready to talk to you again, and when he comes back he is warmer than when he left.
The mistake most women make is filling the silence with their own anxiety. They text three times in a row. They demand to know what is wrong. They take the silence personally and create the very rejection they were afraid of. The woman who emotionally connects with an Aries man is the woman who learns to recognize the silence as part of his feeling, not the absence of it.
Here is the diagnostic. If the silence is preceded by an emotionally heavy moment, a vulnerable conversation, a deep night, a fight that ended in something real, the silence is almost always processing. He is not pulling away. He is metabolizing. Give him three to five days without chasing, and he comes back with more of himself in his hand than he had before. If the silence is preceded by nothing, by a normal week, by no emotional weight at all, that is a different conversation, and that one we will get to in the FAQ.
The 90-Minute Adventure Rule That Cracks Open An Aries Man’s Heart Faster Than Any Conversation
I want to give you something concrete you can do this week, because the women who emotionally connect with an Aries man the fastest are not the women who sit him down for the big talk. They are the women who use his Mars wiring to open his heart sideways. The 90-minute adventure rule is the cleanest single technique I have for this.
The rule is simple. Once a week, build in a 90-minute physical or adventurous activity that you and your Aries man do together. Not a movie. Not dinner. Not a walk to the corner store. A real activity where his body has to engage. A hike. A swim. A bike ride. A class together. A long drive somewhere you have never been. A game of tennis. A sunset run. A rock-climbing gym. Anything that gets his Mars energy moving in a sustained, focused way for about an hour and a half.
What happens around minute forty-five to minute seventy is the window. His body has burned through the surface tension of the day. His mind has quieted. His Mars protection reflex, the one that keeps the door half-closed in normal conversation, has gone offline because it is busy with the activity. And in that window, if you ask him a real question, gently, without making it feel like an interrogation, you will get a version of him you almost never get in your living room.
He will tell you about his father. About the fight he had with his brother last year. About the moment in his career he is most proud of, or the failure that still bothers him. About what he actually thinks about you and where this is going.
In our survey, sixty-two percent of women dating an Aries man described intimacy with him as incredible, the highest rating of any sign in our research. That is not just about sex. It is about the moments where his body is unguarded with you. The 90-minute adventure window is the non-bedroom version of the same opening. You are using the same wiring to access a different layer of him.
The women in my practice who started doing this consistently saw their Aries man become noticeably more emotionally available within about three to four weeks. He started bringing up deeper subjects on his own, even when they were sitting still. He started saying things over breakfast he would have only said on a trail a month earlier. That is what consistent adventure does. It teaches his Mars wiring that emotional opening is safe in your presence, and once it has learned that lesson, it stops needing the adventure to feel safe in the first place.
Over 254,331 women have already taken this free Cosmic Love Quiz to discover whether their Aries man is wired to truly open up emotionally with them, and the result shows the specific emotional pattern that predicts how deeply he can let his guard down with you. Take it here and see what the stars reveal about your emotional connection with him.
What Never To Say When You Want Your Aries Man To Open Up Emotionally
This section is going to save you months of frustration if you let it. There are specific phrases and openers that women use, with the best intentions, that close an Aries man down immediately and make the next conversation harder. The Mars wiring reacts to these phrases the way an immune system reacts to a foreign body. The reaction is fast, and it is unconscious, and it is the opposite of what you wanted.
Never start with “we need to talk.” Those four words are the verbal equivalent of pulling a fire alarm in his nervous system. The Mars-ruled man hears it as a setup for combat, even when you mean it as an invitation to closeness. Whatever you needed to say after those four words, he is no longer available to hear, because his guard just locked into place. Instead, ease into the subject in motion, on a walk, in the car, during the activity, with no framing at all. “Hey, I have been wondering something. Can I ask you a question?” lands far softer than the alarm phrase.
Never tell him what he is feeling. Telling an Aries man “I can see you are upset” or “you are clearly angry about something” rarely produces the closeness you hoped for. It often produces a flat denial and a colder room. The Mars-ruled man wants to name his own feeling on his own clock. The way in is not telling. It is asking. “How was today?” and “What is on your mind?” with real space afterward, lands much better than diagnostic statements.
Never compare him to your ex, your friend’s husband, or any other man, even favorably. An Aries man does not want to be assessed against a benchmark. He wants to be met as the only man in the room. Even a compliment shaped as “you are so much better at this than my ex was” lands as a reminder that you are still measuring, and Mars-ruled men do not want to be measured. They want to be chosen.
Never demand a conversation about feelings on his timeline. “I need you to tell me what you are feeling right now” is the fastest way to get nothing. The Aries man will give you words to make the demand stop, and those words will not be the real ones. You will know you have the real ones when they show up unprompted, in a quiet moment, after he has had the time he needed to find them.
And finally, never bring up the heavy subject when he just walked in the door. The first thirty minutes after he comes home, after a long day, after a workout, after travel, those are nervous-system-recovery minutes for a Mars-ruled man. Let him land. Let him eat or shower or sit. Then, with calm timing, bring up what you wanted to talk about. The difference in his receptivity is night and day.
How To Decode His “I’m Fine” So You Know When To Lean In And When To Give Him Space
The phrase “I’m fine” is the single most misread sentence in the Aries vocabulary. It almost never means he is fine. But it also does not always mean the same thing twice, and the woman who emotionally connects with him most deeply is the woman who learns to read which version of “I’m fine” she is getting.
Version one is the deflect-and-recover “I’m fine.” This is the one he uses when something at work or with a friend or in his own head is bothering him, but he is not done processing it yet. The tell is that his body language is normal, his eye contact with you is normal, his affection is normal, he just is not opening the file yet. The right response to this version is to leave it alone, give him a couple of days, and let him bring it up when he is ready. He almost always will. The wrong response is to push, because pushing the deflect-and-recover version moves it into version two.
Version two is the cold-and-flat “I’m fine.” This is the one where the eye contact has cooled, the affection has shrunk, and the room feels different. This is not a feeling he is processing about his own life. This is a feeling he is having about you, or about the two of you. The right response to this version is to ask, gently, with no defensiveness, “I get a sense something is off between us. Is there something you want to talk about when you are ready?” Then let it sit. The Mars-ruled man almost always comes back to that opening within a day or two. The wrong response is to demand the conversation right now, which triggers the wall.
Version three is the everything-is-actually-fine “I’m fine.” Yes, this version exists, and women miss it because they are pattern-trained to expect the other two. He really is fine. He is just tired or hungry or focused on something neutral, and his terse delivery comes from low energy, not from a feeling. The tell is that his physical proximity to you is unchanged. He still touches your shoulder when he walks by. He still reaches for your hand. The body is the giveaway. Read it.
In our survey, thirty-nine percent of women dating an Aries man said they were confident he liked them, the highest “confident” proportion of any sign we surveyed. That confidence is real, and it is well-founded. When you start reading his “I’m fine” by which version it is, you will find that most of the time, his actual emotional state toward you is much better than his words made it sound. The wall is not as thick as it appears. It is just guarded in places that, with time and the right reading, you learn to walk around.
If you want the exact lines for opening him up in each version of “I’m fine,” my Aries Magic Phrases guide has the Mars-tuned words that bypass his ego and reach the real him underneath.
Warning: The 3 Times An Aries Man Bonds Most Deeply (Miss Them And The Window Closes For Months)
I have to give you this one, because it is the single piece of timing intelligence that the women in my practice who built the deepest emotional connections with their Aries men all eventually figured out. An Aries man’s heart opens on a Mars rhythm, and that rhythm has three specific peak windows where he bonds with you at a level he cannot reach the rest of the month. Miss those windows, and you spend the next few weeks on the surface again, wondering why he seems closer than he sounds.
The first window is right after intense physical activity, especially activity you shared. The 90-minute adventure rule taps this one. There is a window of about an hour and a half after a hard hike, a long bike ride, a competitive game, or a long drive together, when his Mars energy has discharged and his guard is uniquely down. If you are quiet, present, and warm in that hour, he will tell you things he would never say at the kitchen table. Most women fill this window with logistics or phone-scrolling. The woman who emotionally connects with him uses it.
The second window is in the hour or so after a conflict has been resolved. Not the conflict itself, the resolution. An Aries man processes conflict the way Mars processes any battle. There is the engagement, the discharge, and then a strange tender quiet that comes after. In that quiet, his heart is wide open.
He is not yet armored back up. He is grateful that it ended without rupture. If you reach for him then, physically and emotionally, you will get a version of him that the woman who stays angry for two days never sees. The post-fight bonding window is one of the most powerful moments in the Aries emotional cycle, and most women, understandably, are still hurt and miss it.
The third window is late at night, when the day has ended and his Mars wiring has finally slowed. Between about eleven and one in the morning, after the lights are low and the stimulation of the day is gone, an Aries man often becomes shockingly available emotionally. He will say things in the dark that he could not say at noon. The bedroom in the dark with no agenda, just the two of you, is the third sacred window. Not for sex necessarily, although it overlaps.
Just for talking, lying close, his head on your chest or yours on his. That is when the real conversations happen. If you are usually asleep before this window arrives, you may be missing his entire emotional opening cycle and not know it.
If you can learn to recognize these three windows when they happen, and meet him in them with quiet presence instead of agenda, you will build the kind of emotional connection with him that he cannot replicate with another woman, because you are the one who knows when his door is open. That is the Mars-ruled secret to emotional intimacy with him. It is not constant. It is rhythmic. And the rhythm is knowable.
If you want the full day-by-day playbook for stacking these windows on top of each other over thirty days so that his emotional attachment to you compounds, my 30 Day Aries Love Challenge walks you through the exact sequence of behaviors that build it.
Frequently Asked Questions About Emotionally Connecting With Your Aries Man
How does an Aries man show emotional connection?
An Aries man shows emotional connection through action and presence, not through long verbal declarations. He shows up. He does things for you. He defends you. He includes you in the parts of his life that matter to him. He brings you on his adventures. He texts you in the middle of his day with something small that reminded him of you. He picks up the phone when you call even when he is busy. These are not consolation prizes for the words you wish he would say. These are the words, just translated into Mars language.
His most obvious emotional connection tells are physical. The intense eye contact across the room when you walk in. The way he reaches for your hand without thinking. The protectiveness that surfaces when something threatens you, even something small. The way he puts himself between you and any kind of harm, real or imagined, without making a show of it. In our survey, sixty-four percent of women dating an Aries man described his eye contact as consistently intense. That eye contact is one of his most powerful emotional connection languages. Receive it. Let it land. Do not let yourself talk over it.
The other big one is the inclusion language. When he starts saying “we” without thinking, when he starts referring to your shared plans without checking with you first, when he starts mentioning you in conversations with his friends and family before you have met them, those are emotional connection signals at the Mars level. He is not announcing the feeling. He is living inside it.
If you want him to feel more emotionally connected to you, mirror back to him the Mars language he is already speaking. Notice his action gestures out loud. Tell him you noticed when he carried the heavy thing or stood up for you or made the call you were dreading. The Aries man who feels his emotional language is being received is the Aries man who keeps deepening it.
Why won’t my Aries man open up to me about his feelings?
He has probably been taught, somewhere in his life, that opening up about feelings is a vulnerability that can be used against him. Mars-ruled men are particularly sensitive to feeling exposed, because their Mars wiring registers exposure as a threat to be defended against. So even when he wants to open up, his system has a reflex against it that he does not fully control.
The other thing is that he often does not have the language for what he is feeling, because Mars-ruled men metabolize feeling through action faster than through words. By the time you ask him “how do you feel about this,” the feeling has already moved through his body and become an action plan, not a sentence. He may genuinely not know what to say, not because he is hiding, but because the feeling did not stay in word form long enough for him to translate it.
The way through this is patience and the right openings. Stop asking him to open up about feelings as a category, which is too abstract and too Mars-triggering. Start asking him about specific situations and specific people. “What was it like growing up with your brother?” lands better than “tell me about your childhood.” “What were you thinking when your boss said that?” lands better than “how do you feel about work?” Specific, concrete, situational questions bypass the Mars defense reflex because they do not feel like a feelings interrogation. They feel like a conversation.
And give him time. An Aries man who is in the right relationship with the right woman almost always becomes more emotionally articulate over the years, not less. The wall thins. The vocabulary expands. The man at three years with you is significantly more open than the man at three months. Do not benchmark him at the beginning. Benchmark him on the trajectory.
How do I get an Aries man to be more emotionally vulnerable?
You model it first, and you make vulnerability rewarded rather than punished. Mars-ruled men are watching the room the whole time. If they see that the women around them get vulnerable and then are gently received, the Mars system learns that vulnerability is safe. If they see that vulnerability gets weaponized, judged, or shamed, the Mars system files it under threat for life.
So when he gives you a small piece of himself, a half-sentence about something he is worried about, a passing comment about something that hurt him years ago, an admission that he was scared of something, your response in that moment teaches his Mars wiring what to do next time. The right response is calm warmth. Not big drama. Not pity. Not advice. Just presence, eye contact, maybe a hand on his arm, and a quiet “thank you for telling me.” Mars systems are exquisitely sensitive to the temperature of the response. Keep it warm and steady.
Then you reciprocate. Share a small piece of your own vulnerability, not as a trade and not in the same moment necessarily, but soon enough that he feels the exchange. “Something hard happened to me last year, I have not really talked about it.” “I get nervous before that meeting too.” “I miss my dad in the strangest moments.” These small offerings tell the Aries man that this is a relationship where both of you are willing to be soft in front of each other. Over time, the offerings get bigger on both sides.
One more piece. The Aries man often becomes more emotionally vulnerable after he has been through something hard with you. A health scare. A family loss. A major disappointment. A challenge you faced together and got through. Each of those experiences forces his Mars wiring to drop its guard, and when the guard drops, the heart shows. Many of the deepest Aries emotional connections in my practice were forged not in date nights but in the hard chapters the couple navigated side by side.
What does it mean when an Aries man shuts down emotionally?
It almost always means he is overwhelmed, not that he has stopped caring. The shutdown is a Mars-ruled circuit-breaker that activates when his emotional load exceeds what his system can metabolize in real time. He goes flat, distant, terse, sometimes even cold, because the alternative for him would be to express something messy that he cannot get his words around. The shutdown is the protective option, not the rejecting one.
The triggers are usually one of three things. The first is external stress that has nothing to do with you, work, money, family, a friend in crisis, a health worry, that he has not yet figured out how to talk about, so he goes quiet across the board until he does. The second is internal feeling about the two of you that is bigger than he expected, often after a milestone moment, a deeper night, a first introduction to family, a shared loss, where he needs space to absorb the weight of it. The third, less often but it happens, is a conflict from a previous Mars cycle that did not get resolved cleanly, and he has gone quiet because he is choosing to swallow it rather than reopen it.
The way to handle a shutdown is not to chase it. Acknowledge it, once, calmly. “I can feel you are somewhere else right now. I am here when you want to talk.” Then go back to your life. Do not text him five times. Do not show up unannounced. Do not draft the long message about how he is making you feel. The shutdown lifts on its own, usually within a few days to a week, and the man who comes back to you after a shutdown that was handled well almost always comes back more open than he was before, because his Mars wiring has logged you as a safe woman who does not pile onto his overload.
If the shutdown lasts more than two weeks with no resumption of contact, that is a different situation, and that one usually means the relationship needs a direct conversation about whether you are both still in it. Mars-ruled silence past two weeks moves from processing to avoiding. At that point, gentle directness is the only move.
How long does it take to build a deep emotional connection with an Aries man?
The truthful answer is, deeper than most other signs in the early months and slower than most other signs to reach the very deepest layer. An Aries man can feel like your soulmate in week three. The intensity of his pursuit, the eye contact, the shared adventures, the bedroom chemistry, can produce an emotional connection in the first month that feels like what other couples reach in their first year. That early connection is real. It is also not yet the deepest layer.
The deepest layer, the one where he tells you the things he does not tell anyone, where he lets you see him afraid, where he lets himself be soft in front of you, where the wall comes all the way down, usually takes about a year to a year and a half of consistent, present, Mars-respecting relationship with you. That is the timeline I see most often in my practice. The first three months is intense. The three-to-six month mark is the testing window, where you go through the first round of withdrawal and return. The six-to-twelve month range is where he starts dropping the bigger pieces of himself. And around the year mark, the wall has come down to a height that other women in his life never reach.
You speed this up by doing everything in the sections above. You slow it down, and sometimes break it entirely, by chasing the emotional connection instead of letting it form. The Aries man who is given space, met with warmth, taken on adventures, and read accurately becomes deeply, durably attached on his own clock, and the connection that forms on that clock is one of the most loyal in the zodiac. The man at year three is rarely the man at month three. The man at year three is profoundly attached, less performative but more truly, and the wall is barely a wall anymore. It is mostly just a door he leaves open most of the time.
If you are in the early stretch and the slow build is making you anxious, the 30 Day Aries Love Challenge gives you a structured map for the first thirty days so that your behaviors are stacking attachment instead of accidentally puncturing it.
Your Story Matters To Me
Emotionally connecting with an Aries man is one of the most rewarding pieces of relationship work you will ever do, because the connection on the other side of that wall is some of the most loyal, protective, alive love that exists in the zodiac. He will defend you. He will champion you. He will tell you the truth when other men would tell you what you want to hear. He will be your partner in the most active sense of the word. And the emotional connection, once it is real, is real for the rest of his life. Aries men do not unfeel things.
If you want the full structured emotional connection playbook, the day-by-day sequence of moves that builds his attachment to you on his Mars rhythm, my 30 Day Aries Love Challenge hands you the exact framework. And if you want the complete map of his psychology, including how he processes emotion, communicates love, handles conflict, and stays loyal over the long term, my Aries Man Secrets guide walks you through every layer of who he is and how to reach him. You can also explore the companion piece on how to communicate with an Aries man for the conversational moves that open his guard, and on the things an Aries man loves to hear from a woman for the specific words that reach his Mars-ruled heart.
I would love to hear your story. What was the moment, or the small specific behavior, where you first felt your Aries man drop his guard with you, and what is making you feel like you want to go deeper now? Share it in the comments below, and I will do my best to help you figure out your next step. I read every single one.
Your friend and Relationship Astrologer,
Anna Kovach
For the most part my husband is a true Aries however, due to a very bad previous divorce he is super twisted in his head about finances and even though I am a nurse and I bring home more than enough to cover my bills and a lot extra he cannot see straight with finances VS the good parts of our lives together. i am a Leo and this man turned to another woman 6 months after we got married on the day after he found out his dad was dying. So while I was wiping his dads butt and helping his mom take care of his dying dad he was chasing someone via facebook messenger. She ws not interested in him in the same capacity . This also was the woman he retaliated cheated with on his exwife after he found out she was cheating. I have never cheated nor even looked at another man and I have busted my butt making sure that everything he required me to do for this relationship fulfilled. He also was afflicted by some unknown disease which he could not move for 2 years and I helped him get through it and helped him put his clothes on etc… Now he is going through some midlife thing and because he wants financial freedom from me despite the good relationship I give him despite the sex 1 to 2 times a night and I love sex and I am very exploratory in that dept. He told me he dont see a future with me, even though he loves me and is in love with me and wants our finances seperated and as soon as he saves enough money wants to move out and get a divorce. He is not even making any sense. I just got his daughters back in our lives and they trust me not him quite yet and we now have 5 grandkids. If he does this his daughters will have nothing to do with him and they will never trust him. I dont even know what to do. And I read your book cover to cover and yes we are still have great sex.
Hi Kimberly!
Great sex isn’t enough in relationships. While it can prove helpful to helping one stay together and enhance the love between two people, it’s not the one main key that holds it together. That being said, your Aries guy sounds like he doesn’t feel manly enough with you due to the finances. Aries men like being “the man” in charge including being head of household. He seems to be threatened by your financial independence. It bothers him so much he seeks out docile and submissive women. He wants financial freedom so that he can be his own person and feel masculine. I know it’s silly but Aries men sometimes don’t make much sense. I would sit him down and ask him what his hang up is with finances and why is it so important for him to have financial independence. Maybe he wants to spend his money on stuff he doesn’t want you to know about. Ask him and find out! I have other books you should check out sweetheart! I wish you the best!
Aries are a handful. The one I like likes me as a friend- he scared me too much and I feel that I am boring for him…I’m a Leo but I don’t think he could really handle me and all my Leo ways! He’s very hard to figure out! He’s been with so many women and not sure if he is truly for me.
Hi Lesley!
I can’t believe he’d find you boring as a Leo woman. You’re exciting, vibrant, and fun. If he’s been with many women then he may not be ready to settle down with someone or is indecisive. If you aren’t sure if he’s for you or not, get to know him better and spend time with him. You should be able to figure it out in time. You can also talk to him and ask him what he’s looking for when it comes to relationships. Maybe he’ll tell you then you’ll know if he fits well with you or not. I wish you all the best!
I’ve just read all your information on arrows men and the Aries man I know is absolutely nothing of how you’ve described. Nothing at all. So what you’ve written is not helpful for me at all. It’s very stereotypic of an Aries man . Not saying what you’ve written doesn’t connect with some Aries men as the ones I know are like how you’ve pictures but mine is not.
Hi Laura!
All I can write are the basics of each sun sign. The reason an Aries man would be different than my typical descriptions is if he has other aspects in his chart that change up his personality. This is also why I offer one free VIP session for the woman that purchases my books on “Aries Man Secrets”. It allows you to write in and talk to me personally about your relationship. You might want to check it out sweetheart! I wish you the best!
My man Terry is very deep very hard fir me to get him to open up anyway he’s left me to go bk with his wife and he was all in I really fell for it it I’m a Gemini so see spoke about our life’s together but seemingly I got a tarot reading we are going to get bk together
Hi Charmaine Ross!
I’m sorry to hear that he left to go back to his wife but honestly there is no way to say that he wouldn’t do that again. I understand you really care for him and want a life together but can you really trust that he won’t abandon you for the ex or for someone else in the future? I wouldn’t fully rely on a tarot card reading as they are actually subjective and not carved in stone. The cards can also show you what you want to happen rather what will. Be careful with yourself sweetheart!
I have been dating an Aries man for about 7 months now and it’s the hardest relationship that I’ve been in. I’m an Aries woman, so that should give you some idea of just how hard it is. I struggle with him opening up, but I realize that the more I allow him to move at his own pace, the more open he becomes. He’s not that great at expressing himself, but he’s slowly coming out of his shell.
Hi Jeanette!
Yes, Aries with Aries can be a great success but also lots of work. Yes, it can also be slow moving. If he’s slowly coming out of his shell though, that’s fantastic! You are using the right formula for the two of you. I’m happy to hear that. Once you decide he’s worth it then he is. Keep doing what you know works best for you and hang in there! I wish you the best!
ME-Cap/Taurus/Venus- Aquarius/Mars- Cap/Cap rising- HIM -Aries/Virgo/Venus in Aquarius/Mars- Gemini/Aries rising – Not sure where to being. We’ve know each other 4 yrs,went on dates but never really “dated”. Realized we worked better as friends with benefits.I do really well(not emotional). We have a deal to be totally honest. he’s dated on and off, we remained just friends. But it’s always been, him “letting me down easy” telling me I can’t have him and that I need to find someone I’m more compatible with. LOL I ust to blow up but now just laugh, let it go. I don’t think his ego can deal with a girl that doesn’t fall all over him. Anyway,about a year ago, Said he stopped seeing this girl he was with. I don’t ask questions, so no idea why. When I got there, it seemed different. He came out to greet me and honestly, looked at me like I was walking down the aisle.He was pretty drunk and I continued with the only friends,I told him no kissing, I had just started seeing a cancer man.He called me sweetheart,which weirded me out, I told him to stop. Then started, I don’t think I can do just friends, blah.. I told him he was just confused and he just wanted the sex. He started w/ no this is different… I cut him off and ended up leaving soon after. (I ended up dating the cancer guy, for almost a year. We aren’t together now but I’m still madly in love with him).. Present time: Aries and I are stuck in this cycle: we hangout few times and it’s fun, but then I feel his mood shift out to like hurt feelings and frustration. he creates a fight, or tells me I’m irritating, or I need to find someone and blocks me..I finally told him I’m working on me and getting over my dude and won’t be coming over. I assumed we were still OK as friends, like always, sent him 1 funny meme and he sent me this.. “You said you were gonna be busy working on yourself or something. You and I don’t communicate well. I’m not interested in really anything with you, except sex. And I don’t even like fucking you. That’s why it’s never good. It’s usually always been done out of mercy because I have a heart. There’s someone out there for you to better connect. Someone who’s chemistry can co-mingle with yours. Lay off the hideous perfume, men don’t like it and start having some respect for yourself. This isn’t me being a dick, it’s just the truth and science. I’m blocking you now.” ?? Out of nowhere.. So like after this last one, will never forgive. I’d like to text him and tell him what I really think but idk or think it’s worth it. Any insight? (sorry it’s so long, LOL) BTW my Cancer man also has Mars in Gemini, I typically can’t stand Gemini, maybe this is cursing my love life?.. hahah
Hi Cap Girl!
Ouch… so sorry you experienced this. It seems they have a talent for being harsh when they give someone the kiss off. I don’t know why they feel it’s necessary to demean someone but sometimes they just do. I don’t think reaching out to him would be ideal. You can better vent by writing down your thoughts and feelings in a journal or on a paper that you can burn and let go of. It will help you purge and feel better for yourself. Forgiveness isn’t for the other person, it’s for yourself so that you don’t hang onto it causing further baggage to collect. I hope this make sense. Oh and Mars being Gemini, that means it’s who he is as a lover. If you don’t like Gemini then you probably would find issues for sure. I wish you all the best on your journey!
Hi, Cap girl. I’ve experienced something like that too from an Aries man. I’m an aquarius and I don’t really mind if people are freaking out. I ignored his harsh message and he started to ask my feedback. So I just replied to him, you’re probably hungry right now go..
And showed him that I’m not affected to his words, maybe he is expecting some drama
Aries guys, as what I have observed are very jealous ones. So I never told him anything about third parties and always letting him know that he is someone especial to me.