2 Simple Questions to Ask Your Partner Each Day to Eliminate Assumptions and Create Ease: Jocelyn Solo Episode 182
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
You can eliminate many moments of frustration and feeling like you're on different pages with two simple questions. You will ask one of these questions in the morning to start the day with ease and synergy--and it will be especially helpful if you have kids, busy careers, and lots of moving parts to your schedule.
The second question is great for the evening to make sure you're on the same page and so both of you get your needs met and feel like you can recharge your batteries in a mutually fulfilling way. Go ahead and tune in for these 2 simple (but super helpful) questions!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast. This is Jocelyn Freeman and you're going to be |
| 0:04.6 | hanging out with me one-on-one as we talk about two simple questions to ask your partner each day |
| 0:12.4 | to eliminate assumptions and create ease. Now it's funny with assumptions, right? There's even |
| 0:18.9 | the joke out there. What do assumptions make? |
| 0:21.9 | Assumptions make an ass out of you and me. And I say that with, you know, bringing up humor from like a childhood phrase. |
| 0:28.8 | But assumptions are huge in relationships, unfortunately, and leads to the opposite of ease. |
| 0:36.9 | Frustration, stress, feeling like you're on different pages some days. |
| 0:41.3 | And this experience can apply whether your parents and you feel overwhelmed because you're managing, |
| 0:47.3 | you know, they've got to go here and they've got to go over here and you're also trying to manage work and the dishes. |
| 0:51.3 | And it can feel overwhelming, but it can also apply even if |
| 0:55.7 | that isn't a part of the stress. If it just feels like you and your partner are out of sync, |
| 1:01.7 | you know, you wake up and your partner has a different idea for how the day is going to go. |
| 1:06.9 | Or you just tend to have those moments where you're like, really, you didn't know that you needed |
| 1:11.1 | to be here and, you know, you aren't really even sure that you are on the same page about your |
| 1:16.8 | schedule. But also here's another thing that has been coming up in a lot of sessions with couples |
| 1:22.0 | lately is this experience of not having like replenishment time, alone time, you know, time to really |
| 1:31.1 | rest, unwind, it's almost felt to some partners like, I can't just get a little bit of space |
| 1:38.9 | for me. And it's starting to build up into some resentment and lack of needs being fulfilled. |
| 1:46.0 | So what I'm going to go into here, this is going to be like a kind of quick tip type of episode |
| 1:51.0 | for you, is two questions that you can ask each other every single day. |
| 1:55.6 | They're simple. |
| 1:56.5 | It doesn't take, you know, a 30-minute conversation every single time, but they will allow you |
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