3 Steps to More Proactive Communication in Your Day-to-Day Life Together: Episode 304
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Proactive communication allows you to have more harmony, ease, and unity in your relationship. But what does that really mean, is it just speaking your mind more often?
We all know that "our partner can't read our mind," but how many of us try to just survive the chaos of life without communicating enough with our partner? Or worse, communicate "reactively" once there's already tension, frustration, and miscommunications.
Today's episode gives you 3 helpful steps to focus on more proactive communication as a couple. These steps will help you be more on the same page, avoid little upsets, and build more trust in each other.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast. |
| 0:02.9 | We're here you get modern, non-boring relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, |
| 0:09.0 | fight smarter, and stay in the same team no matter the challenge that you face. |
| 0:12.6 | I am one of your hosts, Erin Freeman. |
| 0:14.2 | And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. |
| 0:16.8 | And this episode is three steps to more proactive communication in your day-to-day life together. |
| 0:22.9 | So if you think about, you know, an average day together as a couple, would you rather be |
| 0:26.9 | bickering and frustrated and feeling tension? |
| 0:30.6 | Or would you rather feel like you're in harmony? |
| 0:32.9 | You're flowing together. |
| 0:34.3 | Now, the question is probably obvious, right? |
| 0:36.4 | We all would prefer the former, |
| 0:38.6 | feeling connected, united, and flow with each other. Now, to do that, we have to start to |
| 0:44.6 | communicate differently, to operate differently. Just like a sports team, I didn't play a lot of |
| 0:50.3 | sports growing up, but we use a lot of analogies in our sessions. Would you expect |
| 0:55.1 | your favorite team who wins games to just show up on game day and all of us, you know, just |
| 1:00.7 | be in harmony, working well together, playing well winning without them practicing, without them |
| 1:07.0 | huddling, without them coming together and talking about the plays and who's doing what and |
| 1:11.1 | what are you focusing on. Hey, you need to work on this. Of course not. That's correct, Aaron, right? |
| 1:17.1 | They would be huddling. I'm getting the analogy right? Yeah. Okay, good. Again, I was more like into |
| 1:22.0 | dance and other things like that. But I think sports analogies are so helpful because that's the same frame of mind |
| 1:28.2 | to have in your relationship. Now when we say communication, some people are like, yeah, yeah, we know |
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